Casa de Lindquist - Teaching

In an effort to practice blogging more consistently and start including shorter blog articles (instead of always thinking I need to write essays for you all), I'm going to do a classroom series wherein I share a picture of one aspect of my classroom that I like or want to work on with a short snippet describing it. Are you ready?

Desk Materials

Contest has ended. Congrats to Melanie A!

After writing about the Classroom Friendly Supplies' amazing pencil sharpener in my review (CLICK here to read), they offered one up for a GIVEAWAY! *Round of applause*

I have long searched for a solid pencil sharpener that will work for middle school students. My experience has been that electric pencil sharpeners, while fast, tend to be loud and within about a year or two die. The school provided manual pencil sharpeners are useless about 2 months after they're installed and proceed to just eat all the pencils. That left me on a search for some kind of alternative.

It's kind of strange summer where it's mid-July but I'm in full "Back-to-School" mode already. I blame stores like Shopko and Wal-Mart for putting their Back-to-School supplies out early! In any event, while I'm in the spirit, I might as well do something useful, right?

This Writing a Research Essay walks students through the steps for writing a strong informational essay.

The Breadwinner by Deborah Ellis follows the story of a young girl trying to survive in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan.

Are your students struggling to write poetry? Help your students become comfortable with writing their own poetry through these colorful Poetry Templates!

Templates include directions for the following types of poetry: