K-3 Book Reviews, Puppets, Colouring, Clip Art
Of Dawn Masi, the author of G My Name is Girl, has found a wonderful way to combine girl power, global awareness, and powerful character traits all in one book. I love this new book and I hope you do, too! Read on for a review and lots of book extension ideas and downloads. Title: G My Name is Girl … Read more
Inside: A review of My Mom is a Firefighter plus TONS of great activities to go with it. Fire Safety Month is almost here and I like to do a few lessons with my Grade 1s using this great book! Be sure to read through to the end because I have lots of great freebie activities and links for you. … Read more
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
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
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
Last week my first graders made torn paper poppy art! I’m not gonna lie. It was time-consuming. It took us 1 1/2 hours to complete. BUT! They loved it and it was pretty easy for most of the kids. Although thinking back on it perhaps it was the chance to use the white liquid glue they enjoyed the most. Haha! … Read more
I have a couple of great Remembrance Day freebies for you. The first one is a math hidden picture (of a poppy). Our class is working hard on learning to read numbers to 100 so I made up this 100 chart picture. I gave the kids a black and white chart, then used the coloured one (see below) as my … Read more
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
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