connecting
learning during read-alouds: making connections
My kiddos are huge fans of popping pop beads, stringing beads, connecting nuts and bolts, and just sticking things together. Not only are these great activities to help develop kiddos’ ...
making connections with nonfiction texts (and our new turtle friend)
Between the insane weather we’ve been experiencing over here (tornadoes! wind gusts! rain, rain, and more rain–and then the next second–sun!?), we’ve had some really cool outside learning going on ...
international literacy day: cora cooks pancit
September 8th is International Literacy Day (hooray!), and although we’ve been busy re-arranging our house (believe it) and trying to get back into the swing of school (trying–), we haven’t ...
telling stories with norman rockwell paintings
I have always been intrigued by Norman Rockwell’s artwork. When I was young, his Girl at Mirror (1954) spoke to me so personally about the battle between growing up and ...
making connections– with poems we love
Lately, we’ve been so busy. May flew by, like it always does for us–a blur of end-of-school activities, yard work, picnics, park dates, and now pool time. So I’ve tried ...
an everyday nonfiction: newspaper reading
Just like many families who incorporate book-reading into bedtime routines, my kiddos find breakfast time is a time for newspaper reading. Newspaper reading is a natural, easy way to incorporate ...
a good-night book walk
Tonight when I returned from tutoring, I went up to say goodnight to Maddy, and she was drowsily looking at a few of the million books we lugged home from ...
