What is a Grand Conversation?
Inside: An explanation of a grand conversation or book talk. What is a Grand Conversation? I just realized that I often refer to a grand conversation as an excellent way to extend a particularly good …
Reading
Sew What? Book Review and Activities
I’m reviewing a new book by Glen A. Penrod called Sew What? Title: Sew What? Author: Glen A Penrod Illustrator: Kelly Echevarria Publishing: Dymon Publications, 2017 Ages: 5-7 Summary: A cute story about working together, …
My Favourite Summer Reads
I’ve been inspired by my blogging friends, Tammy from Forever in First, and Miss Trayers from Not Just Child’s Play to share my favourite summer books with you. Here in Canada teachers are just into their …
7 Fun Summer Reads
My blog friends, Miss Trayer, from Not Just Child’s Play, and Tammy, from Forever in First, have been sharing the books they’ve been reading and I always get some great ideas from them. Seeing as …
Fluent Reading
I just found an interesting little video that might be useful for parents and teachers. It talks about the importance of becoming a fluent reader and how fluent reading is a key contributor to reading …
Scaredy Squirrel Freebie
Scaredy Squirrel, we love you! We’ve spent the last week looking at a variety of Scaredy books. Well, not Halloween or Christmas, but all the others! Like most 6-year-olds, my class adores these books. Before …
End-of-the-year Student Goodies
Our school year is almost over so I’ve started thinking about what to send home in the kids’ report cards ~ aside from their reports, that is :). I came across this poster the other …
Halloween Books & Spelling Freebie
Like a lot of people I LOVE the fall, but I especially love Halloween. My birthday is the day before (darn, I missed by less than 4 hours), and all my birthday parties had a …
Guest Blogger: Barbara from The Corner
Hi Everyone! I’m SO happy to welcome Barbara from The Corner to guest post today. She has one of the most heart-warming and spirit-lifting blogs around. I love stopping by each day to read what’s …
Santa Claus Book Freebie
Inside: Free printable Santa Claus book for your classroom. Santa Claus Book Freebie I had SO much fun last night making the Ginger Boy book, that I made another one today called Santa, Santa (clearly, …