My son has always had his obsessions: Age 3: Dinosaurs and Angry Birds Age 4 and 5: Pokémon Age 6: Bakugan, Ninjago Age 7: Magic Cards, Minecraft, Mario Brothers Video Games Age 9, 10: Minecraft, Dragonballz, Injustice Video Game Age 1o and 11: Dragonballz, Naruto My son’s guitar teacher has channeled his interests into guitar…
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Today is International Book Giving Day!
Today is International Book Giving Day! The aim? To get books into the hands of as many children as possible. Today I will be giving away a diversity book bundle on my Instagram @PragmaticMom. Follow me and tag two people to win my giveaway! 14th February is about sharing the love of books! #bookgivingday International Book…
My 5th Grade Son Blogs on Books!
My son’s 5th grade class has a class blog. It’s private but he showed me his posts and I copied and pasted his two book reviews here. I love the idea of a classroom blog. His teacher says it’s a sneaky way to get kids writing. They love blogging, apparently, and don’t realize that they…
96 Million Impressions for Multicultural Children’s Book Day 2016!
96 Million Social Media Impressions for Multicultural Children’s Book Day 2016! 2016 Multicultural Children’s Book Day Hosts & CoHosts With our Hosts and Co-Hosts, our social media reach was 29,203,106 during the week of Multicultural Children’s Book Day! Hosts Jump Into a Book · PragmaticMom CoHosts All Done Monkey · Crafty Moms Share · The Educators’ Spin On It · Growing Book by Book · I’m Not the…
How Not To Get Hacked: My Advice after 2 of My Blogs Were Hacked
Two of my blogs got hacked recently. I think the hacker used the same means for illegal blog entry: an old theme that I had tried out years ago and rejected. That particular theme was probably not updated over time, and it became a Trojan Horse for hackers to enter my blog. It turns out that…
Homopolar Motor: Clean Energy Science Project for 5th Grade
This video that we saw on The Kid Should See This prompted me to buy the supplies to try this at home with my son: Supply List for Homopolar Motor I bought the wrong magnets so I would suggest you buy this smaller one instead. It’s less expensive too! Neodymium Magnet, $10 Be careful with…
Dystopian YA Like The Giver, Legend and Hunger Games
PickyKidPix has very specific tastes in books. She likes realistic fiction and dystopian, and that’s it. No fantasy, nonfiction, or action adventure for her. No Percy Jackson (boring), Harry Potter (snooze), or even YA chick lit romance. She also likes her realistic fiction be pretty dramatic. Special needs characters are a plus for her. Even…