I just found out that today... March 31st... is National Crayon Day. National Crayon Day is a day in which people celebrate the joy of color...

Every three years during the month of May, people in Ypres, Belgium participate in a festival specifically dedicated to cats. Yes, to cats! ...

Taco Tuesdays are a fun and popular tradition for many people in the United States. On Taco Tuesday, people will often make tacos for dinner...

Kwanzaa is a weeklong celebration in the United States that honors the African heritage of Black and African American families. It begi...

Have you ever looked at a menu from a Chinese restaurant and read about the Chinese zodiac? The Chinese zodiac is also known as Sheng Xiao a...

Are you looking for some children's books to read with your students during the first week of school?  Here is a collection of 15 o...

Conversations have been happening in homes and classrooms across Canada and the United States since the remains of 215 Indigenous children b...

Juneteenth will be here in a couple of weeks!  What is Juneteenth?  Juneteenth is an important day in American history and for Black Am...

Several weeks ago I wrote a blog post about How to Make a Mummy and included the step-by-step directions on how to recreate...

On April 12, 1912, the RMS Titanic struck an iceberg in the northern Atlantic and sank to the bottom of the ocean.  Sadly, 1,500 men, w...

May 4th of each year is the unofficial celebration of all things Star Wars.  Since 1979, fans of the Star Wars franchise... including y...

Multicultural Children’s Book Day is an online children’s literacy event that occurs on the last Friday of every January. Valarie Budayr an...

Hanukkah... often referred to as the Festival of Lights... is an eight-day that begins on the 25th of the Jewish month Kislev of the Hebrew ...

Christmas 2020 is going to be one for the history books.  Most of the people around the world are under some sort of restriction or lockdown...

What is it about poop that fascinates children?  Is it because talking and joking about poop irks some adults and gets a rise out of th...

Last month, I wrote several posts about recognizing signs of anxiety in children and how mindfulness techniques can help allevi...

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg died last night, and many Americans...including myself...are feeling heartbroken.  Justice Ginsburg was a stron...

Shanah Tovah!  It is almost time for Rosh Hashanah... the Jewish New Year!  Rosh Hashanah will begin this year on September 18th (on th...

The beginning of the school year is here and, for the first time in recent history, students and teachers are going back to school in the mi...