If you have ever been pregnant or have been close to someone who has been pregnant, you can imagine how excited I was to see my little on...

September 19th, was Talk Like A Pirate Day and Rock Your School!  When my students came to school today, they found Mrs. Wanke dressed li...

I just got back from GYTO in Orlando.  We live in a small rural community 2 hours north of Chicago. So a warm weather getaway is just what m...

Every December I dread...I mean D-R-E-A-D putting up my classroom Christmas tree.  I hate sorting the branches, attaching them to the pol...

I started this blog several years ago when I uploaded my first products to TPT.  When life got busy as my daughter got older, I began blogg...

Our room and teacher were briefly transformed for the day!  We have been really struggling to understand nouns, verbs, and adjectives...