Learning with Lexie

Last Friday we finished up with March Book Madness 2025 🏀📚🏆

It was a tough battle between The Couch Potato and Mother Bruce, but after some careful analysis, The Couch Potato came out on top as the 2025 winner 🥇

The excitement about books doing this bracket throughout the month truly makes my teacher heart grow 🥰 Watching students run to the board on Monday to see who moved on and talking about which books they think should move on and why is the best.

I’ve had a lot of questions about how I run this month-long activity and I promise to share more soon 💕 for now, I have a highlight on my profile with what I’ve done in the past 🫶🏼✨

Keep doing fun things and getting your kiddos excited to learn 🧡

“If we have a good week of staying on task and only talking when appropriate, I’ll bring in MY Pokémon cards from when I was your age.” 👀

Cheapest, easiest incentive 😅 Now, the comments when they looked through my book of cards from my elementary days:

♦️”1995?! These are vintage cards!”

♦️ “This is a first edition?! How much did you spend?” (My response: “Probably 25 cents at a gas station 🤷🏻‍♀️”)

♦️ “These cards are so old! **looks at me after saying old** I mean… antique?”

Although I got a lot of “cool” points, I definitely felt like I was 100 years old after hearing them talk 😂 The fact I was alive in the 1900s blows their minds 😂

I kept all my cards from my elementary days to share with my child one day, but I loved sharing them with my students too 🥰 It was cool having them look through them and comment on all the things I didn’t know 😅

🧐 Did you collect anything as a kid?