Callie Feyen

“Dear My Tooth Fairy,” Harper writes. “I have a very wiggly tooth. I just wanted to warn you. It started hurting in school. If you don’t know, ‘school’ is where kids learn.” “Anyway, I have a soft lunch but I am still worried. In case you weren’t using your sensors, I wrote you. Send a message on the back tonight…. View Post

{trying} to read aloud to the 8th graders this quarter.  I thought I’d start with Gary Schmidt’s latest book, Orbiting Jupiter because I think there are some similarities between it and Romeo and Juliet, which we are studying. I made this worksheet (above) for the students to fill out as I read because I thought giving them an exercise that is a… View Post

After reading a post by Addie Zierman about Advent Junk Journals, I decided to take her ideas and have my students put together Advent Scrapbooks the last three weeks in my classroom. They took their prayer journals, which were file folders, split them in two, and bound them together with rings. I passed out excerpts from Luke, carols, poetry, and… View Post

‘Tis that time of year, and in case you are looking around for great gifts, here are a few out in the world that I think are pretty great. Coffee+Crumbs calendar.  Each month has a lovely inspirational motherhood phrase, and gorgeous sketch. My favorite is the riff on Friday Night Lights: “Tired eyes, full hearts.” Order one here. 40 Days of… View Post

My teaching buddy Erin recently took her students on a short trek along a patch of woods behind our school during their study of Frankenstein. “The world to me was a secret which I desired to divine,” Victor says in Chapter 2 of Shelley’s mysteriously haunting book, and off Erin took them to discover the divine on a rather misty morning…. View Post