Teacher Tom

A couple times a week, we have a "journal station" in our 4-5's class. We provide construction paper, r...

Sometimes a kid will run ahead of her parents and arrive at school a few seconds ahead of them. When that happens, I o...

I use a hand drum as my signal for transitions. I think it was last year, although it might have been the year before, ...

Over the past few weeks we've been reading Frog and Toad stories at the end of each day. Last week we read one c...

When you find a lone nut doing something great, have the guts to be the first person ...

We don't have a huge set of big wooden blocks, which is okay because we don't really have enough space for more...

When our school moved into its current location, it came with a swing set. It was about this time that playgrounds arou...