Category: reading and writing
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Laura Numeroff writing lesson
As a teacher, I loved working with Laura Numeroff’s books. The kids loved listening to her books and the antics of the different animals. In my second year of teaching I got a stuffed animal of her Mouse from the If You Give a Mouse a Cookie books. Now that I have my own kids…
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Daily paragraph bingo
When my kids were in upper elementary their writing skills were not where I wanted them to be. They needed to work on their editing and their ability to quickly write a paragraph, so I sat down and started creating some writing prompts. I then turned the prompts into daily paragraph bingos and it became…
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Mr. Popper’s Penguins book and a movie night
I remember reading Mr. Popper’s Penguins in elementary school and being charmed by the absurdity. When Jim Carrey made a movie of it a few years ago I was worried about how close it would stay to the source material. Turns out I was right on that. Either way though, I wanted to read the…
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Rock booklist
I think every kid goes through a rock-collecting phase, and so why not capitalize on this and have fun with a rock unit as part of your Homeschool Preschool or your kindergarten? If you’re using My Father’s World Kindergarten this is one of your units, and so you’re already planning this, and this actually started…
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Princess Diaries book club
Funny story, I went and wrote a Princess Diaries book club post where I had already created the pictures thinking, “That’s funny, why didn’t I publish this when I made these pictures years ago?” Well I did, so I’m republishing it,, but I’m going to add in my extra things from when I rewrote this…