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holiday fun fact AND joke lunchbox notes (with hanukkah!)
We are huge fans of the lunchbox love note over here, so we’ve revisited our ole faves and added a few new ones to the mix. Maddy, Owen, and Cora ...
pretzel patterns: learning during snacktime
It’s been crazy over here for the past few weeks, with nutty, awful weather, with colds and stomach bugs, lots of late meetings, and lots of end-of-season hurrahs. So our ...
let’s talk about learning disabilities– with the experts at NCLD
Everyone I know is touched somehow, in some way, by learning disabilities. Whether it’s a child, sibling, spouse, or parent, in my life, learning disabilities know no bounds. It seems ...
target supports education: grants & programs that ROCK (+ giveaway!)
We all love Target. That’s nothing new, right? The sales rock. The clothes for kids–and adults!–rock. The Dollar Bins rock. The grocery items rock. Those cute brown boots I got last ...
2 tricks to an organized school year
How do you stay organized during the school year? What do you do to not get lost in the sea of papers your kids bring home from school each day? ...
mad monday: discounts on educational products for parents and teachers
We’ve got a lot going on over at we teach lately, so I thought I’d take a minute to let you in on what’s totally new and totally awesome over ...
how every family can start the school year off right
Several years ago, I wrote about how to make the school year a smashing success, or. . . actually how to make the school year as successful as humanly possible. ...
wordless riddles: silly lunchbox notes
When I asked Maddy, Owen, and Cora what they liked best for their lunchbox notes, I got three different answers. From Maddy: I want more jokes–not joke, jokes like knock-knocks ...
our super-special Kindergarten lunchbox love notes
One of my first, most distinct happy, happy memories was when I was six years old. I was eating my very first lunch out of my very first lunchbox, in ...
beautiful backpack butterflies
One of the things we love to do as a Back-to-School tradition is to find some cool way of blinging out the kids’ backpacks. Especially before the big Kindergarten year, ...
hello teacher notes: let kids connect with teachers
Another one of our fave back-to-school traditions involves a little bit of writing, some decorating, and a wee bit of walking. Not much walking, really. Just to the mailbox or ...
