In my class for preservice elementary teachers my goal is to give new teachers tools for making decisions for teaching literacy based on knowledge of thier students and knowledge of pedagogical strategies for teaching literacy. At the same time that they be ome teachers of literacy, my hope is that students begin to think of themselves as readers and writers. Drawing on the materials of secondary English teacher Yvonne Divans Hutchinson's "A Friend of Their Minds," I introduced the idea of building community through reading andf8 writing on the first day of class. From the first day we began with a discussion about how to build our own literacy community where we are known through our reading and writing, at the same time that we discuss how to create a community that includes safety and risk in elementary classrooms. This website illustrates key aspects of this learning across various dimensions including a story of one semester reprpresented by a timeline.