Inside: Valentine’s Day craft to use your kids’ Valentine’s Day cards that they bring home from school. Don’t toss them, make this Valentine’s Day Placemat craft. As a kid, I loved Valentine’s Day. I loved collecting the valentines my classmates brought in to school. The My Little Pony cards. The Lisa Frank unicorn cards. And the […]
Celebrate our Differences: We Are All Shades of Brown Reader
Inside: Use this We Are All Shades of Brown Emergent Reader to celebrate our differences and also showcase how similar we are. I’m about as fair-skinned as they come. So when I first started teaching my very diverse group of Kindergartners during my first year of teaching, one of the first things I did was […]
Hanukkah Kindness Role Playing Cards to Practice Kindness
Inside: Use these Hanukkah Kindness Role Playing Cards with kids to practice how to be kind towards others during Hanukkah. While there is no one way to be kind, there are many ways to be unkind. And when kids are around family they haven’t seen in a while or are expected to sit still through […]
Hanukkah Kindness Emergent Reader Set for SEL
Inside: Use this Hanukkah Kindness Interactive Emergent Reader to focus on kindness during the eight nights of Hanukkah. Growing up in an interfaith family, I always loved December because I got Hanukkah and Christmas celebrations, decorations, and traditions. And while I absolutely love Christmas, since I’m Jewish I tend to “protect” Hanukkah from the Christmas. […]
12 Hanukkah Crafts for Kids to Make Hanukkah More Meaningful
Inside: Make Hanukkah more meaningful by making these Hanukkah crafts for kids with your family. Every year when the holiday decor rolls out, the adorable Christmas decorations fill the stores. And I can’t lie, I love them. I love Christmas. But since we’re an interfaith family, I’m also on the hunt for cute Hanukkah decorations. […]