Canada Day Word Search Printable

Inside: You’ll find a free Canada Day word search. For the last week and a half I’ve been guiding my 7-year-old grandson through his online school work. One of our word activities was to create a word search with the weekly study words. We both really enjoyed making a puzzle for each other to solve. Since school is now over … Read more

Remembrance Day

I published this post 7 years ago! I just updated it and thought it was worth sharing again because I have a lovely poem that’s perfect for Grade 1, plus a little booklet to print it in. I also have some book suggestions and links to a several other Remembrance Day posts I’ve done over the years. Be sure to … Read more

Sometimes I Feel Like a Fox: Book Review

Inside: Book review of Sometimes I Feel Like a Fox and lots of book-related activities. My daughter-in-law purchased this beautiful book for our five-year-old grandson. I read it to him yesterday and was completely enchanted with it. I hope you love it as much as I do. Title: Sometimes I Feel Like a Fox Author-Illustrator: Danielle Daniel Publishing: Groundwood Books, … Read more

Fire Safety Activities for First Grade!

Inside: Lots of fire safety activities for first grade. Free printables. Last week we focused on fire safety. I almost always introduce a new theme with a poem. Here’s a free copy of “I’m a Little Firefighter”. We started out by reading these two books: And throughout the week we watched a variety of fire safety videos from YouTube. This … Read more

First Nations Mural

I took photos of these breathtaking native murals on a recent walk through downtown Victoria (my home town). They’re part of a 250-metre long panel of First Nations murals that were erected in a celebratory countdown to the completion of an 11-year-old undertaking to clean up the very toxic land and seabed of Rock Bay. The murals, running along Pembroke … Read more