Several months ago I wrote a blog post about a children's book called Dragon's Breath by Michael Gordon. In Dragon's Breath , ...

Passover... also known as Pesach ... is a major Jewish holiday that is celebrated on the 15th day of the Hebrew month Nisan. It is cele...

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

One of the first blog posts I ever wrote was about making pizza bags for your children . That was a fun post to write and lots of children h...

A few weeks ago, I wrote a blog post about the different ways you can use Skittles to teach some basic math skills such as counting,...

Sometimes the best gifts we receive from our children and our students are the ones they make from the heart. These gifts don’t have to be s...

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...

Snowflake Bentley  is a children's biography about Wilson Bentley... the man who discovered that no two snowflakes are alike. Aut...

I live in a part of the United States that can see snow up to six months out of the year. It can get so cold and blustery that on rare occas...

Once upon a time... almost thirty years ago...I was a student teacher in a first grade classroom. My mentor teacher and I sat down toge...