Hello Friends! I have three wonderful back-to-school books to share with you today. I love them all so much I can’t even pick a favourite. Title: First Day Around the World Author: Ibi Zoboi Illustrator: Juanita Londoño Publisher: HarperCollins Children’s Books, 2025 About: This wonderful book connects children from all around the world as they embark on their first day … Read more
For the last several years I’ve started my year off with this humorous book, Don’t Eat the Teacher by Nick Ward. Note: This is an updated post with new images and much better freebie downloads. Summary from Amazon: “It’s Sammy the shark’s first day at school – and he’s very excited. But when Sammy gets excited, he BITES things! CRUNCH! … Read more
Alphabet puppets have an array of surprising benefits for young children. In addition to helping make learning fun, interactive and engaging there are a multitude of wonderful advantages.
Happy Back to School to everyone who started up again today. That’s pretty much all the public schools here in Canada, and I believe a few American districts started up again today, too. I have a free word search for you if you’re looking for an easy way to fill in a bit of time. I remember the first week … Read more
If you’re a teacher or a home-schooler I think you’ll really like this new set of clip art I made. It’s beginning sounds for the letters of the alphabet, in both colour and black/white. I had a black and white set that I made a year ago and finally got around to updating it with colour images. I also improved … Read more
Inside: Free Back-to-School poetry bundle! Hi Friends! Here in Canada it’s September which means it’s back to school time! I have a collection of 5 poems to share with you today, all of which have a fall or back-to-school theme. Most of the poems are suitable for K-2 but the Names poem is probably great for Grade 3, as well! … Read more
Inside: A collection of Grade 1 back-to-school books. It’s back to school time again! Actually, here in B.C. we have another month to go, but I know in many parts of the States school has already started up again for the year or will be soon. Here are the books I read to my classes over the years to help … Read more
Inside: An exploration of Show and Tell in the classroom. Confession time: I dislike Show ‘n Tell. A lot! I’ve been teaching primary for 27 years now and I’ve decided that this is the year I give it up completely! I’ve been messing around with different formats for the last few years but I’ve finally had enough and I’ll tell … Read more
I made a birthday chair! And the best part? It took about five minutes. Yes! I love quick ‘n easy projects. I found this idea on Mrs. Richardson’s Class blog … thank you Mrs. Richardson! We happened to have two folding black chairs collecting dust in the back of our garage. So once I cleaned up one of the chairs, it was … Read more