My #4 post for 2015 is Multicultural Books for Children: 60+ Book Lists, another list of lists. I am trying to keep this list updated. I also posted Diversity Picture Book lists for 4th Grade, 5th Grade, 6th Grade, 7th Grade and 8th Grade in order to encourage teachers to sign up for a FREE…
MaryAnne of MamaSmiles turned me on to this gratitude challenge: Today I’m joining a group of bloggers who are uniting to blog about 50 Happy Things for 2015 – and we would love for you to join us! If you’d like to join in, here’s how it works: set a timer for 10 minutes; timing…
Yoga is just as good as aerobics, cycling and walking for cutting the risk of heart disease. The Daily Telegraph Every minute, one person in the U.S. is diagnosed with heart failure – nearly 6MM Americans total. My friend had a heart attack last week. Luckily, he self-diagnosed himself correctly when the heart attack occurred and went to…
My son and I watched dozens of videos from The Kid Should See This to find our four favorites: Watch how plants explode their seeds. If you play soccer or basketball, you’ll love this video on backspin called the Magnus Effect. I want a tree like this: a tree with forty kinds of fruit! It’s…
I’m thrilled to be judging first-round Easy Readers and Early Chapter books for the Cybils! I’m joined by Katie Fitzgerald of Story Time Secrets, Jennifer Wharton of Library Thing, and Jean Little Library, Juliana Lee of Juliana Lee: Crafting Stories, Susan Murray of From Tots to Teens. The Easy Reader genre was my biggest challenge to find diverse,…
PickyKidPix is now in 8th grade but only less than halfway through. She tells me that her curriculum covers Colonial America, the Industrial Revolution in science, the American Revolution, the Civil War, the French and Indian War, the Constitution, and Racism. I’m creating multicultural picture book lists for middle school in hopes of helping teachers…
The Kid Lit Blog Hop is now monthly! To celebrate the holidays in December, I’ve picked out five new picture books to share and I’m giving them away to five different winners. The Polar Express by Chris Van Allsburg Can you believe that it’s been thirty years since The Polar Express was published?! This story about…