A few years ago, we spent the 4th of July in America’s Hometown, Plymouth. What a difference a few hundred years make! This is Plimoth Plantation’s Pilgrim settlement. I chaperoned the 3rd grade field trip to Plimoth Plantation and my group wanted to see the English settlement at Plimoth Plantation as their first stop and…
Check out the best mythology books for kids, perfect for learning everything about Greek children’s stories, myths, and tales. I confess to a deep and abiding love for mythology. It started when I was a kid; I fell in love with Greek Mythology even without the Percy Jackson book series! I used to read Edith…
Marilyn Singer’s charming Tallulah series reminds me of Fancy Nancy but with a ballet twist. My daughters never took to dance though I had enrolled Grasshopper and Sensei in Boston Ballet’s Preschool Ballet program when she turned four. Grasshopper and Sensei’s first ballet class at the Boston Ballet. They got tutus for the photo! She…
Please welcome my guest blogger, Jim Westcott, an author who writes Hi Lo fiction books for boys. My fifteen years as a Special Education Teacher influenced what I write and for what audience. I write these kinds of books for these two audiences: Hi Interest-Low Vocabulary Books for struggling readers, especially books for boys…
My son’s third grade class came up with the best idea for a teacher gift! A progressive story! Using Google Docs, each child wrote one or two paragraphs of a story about their teacher before passing it on. You needed to read the story before you could add your own, so it was also a…
Tau is approximately equal to 6.28, so that makes today, 6/28, Tau day! Happy Tau Day. One easy way to think of Tau Day is just to eat twice as much pie today as you did on Pi Day (March 14). But … uhmm, what exactly is Tau?! What is Tau? In 2001, Bob Palais published…
Please welcome my guest author today, Donna Lasinski of ThinkStretch Summer Learning Program. What is Reading? Summer reading is a time-honored tradition for adults and children alike. But what really counts as summer reading? With my three boys, we can often haggle over what “counts” for their daily reading time. So, with the benefit of insights from…