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…
Giveaway: Botanical Cards from Bottle Branch
I discovered Elizabeth on Instagram @ehpyle and was delighted to discover that lives near my neck of the woods, one town over. Her Instagram feed is gorgeous — she’s a recovering botanist, mother, semi-professional mess maker who is obsessively learning to take better photos. Her obsession has paid off. Her photos are amazing. Now she has a store…
Year of the Monkey Bookmark Craft
February 8th is Chinese New Year and it’s the Year of the Monkey, my son’s year! This is what Chinese astrology has to say about people born during the year of the monkey: Monkey years are believed to be an unlucky for people born in a year of the Monkey. A year of one’s birth…