When I was a child, someone gave me a T-shirt that said Never underestimate the power of a kid! on the front of it.  Those words gav...

Losing a tooth is a significant event when you're a child. How many of us wiggled and wiggled our loose teeth to get them to come? How m...

Spiders and insects are not the same.  Even though we often refer to them both as 'bugs' and they are both arthropods , spiders and ...

National Winnie the Pooh Day falls on January 18th of each year.  Although it's not an official holiday, it's a special day of...

Several weeks ago, I wrote a blog post about The Saint Nicholas Day Snow by Charlotte Riggle .  In that post, I wrote about the benefit...

As a teacher and children's book blogger, I'm always on the lookout for new and interesting products that classroom teachers and hom...

If you are an avid follower of Kelly's Classroom Online, then you know how much I love animal stories and books and activities abou...

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 ...

A couple of months ago, I wrote about Matt Bell's books The Rounders and the Tallers and The Jellies and the Crunchers .  Both...

Making milk carton gingerbread houses for Christmas is a traditional craft that children look forward to when they are younger.  These...