Take a look at these top selections of graphic novels for 3rd grade boys! These books even have a historical twist sure to delight your child. Julie Kirkwood, Creekside Learning • 5 hours ago Mia, I wish I could pin a whole board in one pin! My son loves graphic novels and I am always looking…
Alexandra of familymobileapps.com left me a comment that said, “I love your specific lists! So, I wonder if Poland-themed books for kids are too big or too little a challenge for you? ” So I thought, “No problem. I’ll research.” But what I found was a striking lack of diversity in Polish-themed books for kids: folktales and Holocaust…
I received an email from CWIST, a free website for parents and kids, and was intrigued by their idea: Challenges or “cwists” are crowd-sourced from parents, educators, mom bloggers and experts and posted in the cwist library. The cwists can be anything from organizing a community clean-up, researching fun facts for an upcoming family trip, completing a summer reading…
Today, when I searched for a perfect picture book for Picture Book of the Day, a picture book on Civil Rights for kids found me. As Fast as Words Could Fly had been sitting on my pile waiting patiently. A long while. But just yesterday, I had the honor and privilege of bringing Civil Rights…
Now that it has warmed up, I’m thinking of my garden again. My husband keeps reminding me that it desperately needs weeding. My old neighbor taught me this trick of sliding an old paring knife to the taproot. It works better than the weeding tool I used to use. Still, I’d rather think about fantasy…
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I volunteered in the 5th grade a few weeks ago for a really great program run by volunteer moms called Understanding Our Differences. I believe we purchase a curriculum from a Newton-based non-profit with the same name which was started by a Newton parent with a special needs child. It’s basically sensitivity training for grades…