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Room 1 teacher Chris Cameron called me aside last week to tell me about a touching situation with one of the four-year-olds in his class....

Our school librarian, Mari Ponghamsing, asked children to create bookmarks that illustrate important rules about caring for books. She...

Parents often ask me questions about sending their children on playdates. Understandably, they wonder about allowing their children to go...

A student tries to catch her flying canister, visible as a white spot in front of the sign over the door Fifth graders on Monday took...

Rosangela Snavely is on the big playground teaching children to jump rope. This game is unfamiliar to most children today, and she...

The setting: Fourth graders visiting first graders are doing a “getting to know you” art project together. Each fourth- and first-grade...

During set-up week, while our teachers attend meetings and get their classrooms ready to welcome students for the new school year, our...

Arriving at school one day, a girl pointed to another child and told her mother, “She’s a baby. She doesn’t know how to talk.” The mom,...