Inside: Teach students to be polite and have good manners with this hands on activity bundle to make character education fun. Even before my kids could speak full sentences, I was teaching them manners. I’d hand them their paci and say to them/for them, “Thank you, Mama.” As they got older, we taught them their […]
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Seven Days of Summer
Summer is around the corner and I could not be more excited. No more alarm clocks and packing school lunches and checking homework. This mama is checked out. And if you’re an educator, those get me to summer feelings are quadrupled. When I taught it wasn’t just waiting for summer, it was a desperate […]
Simon Says Kindness Game to Practice Kindness and Teach SEL
Inside: Teach kindness with this fun version of the Simon Says Kindness Game kids will love playing. Whenever we have to teach kids a new skill or a new concept, if we can turn it into a game or even just call it a “game,” our kids will have “buy-in” and want to learn. When […]
How to Have a Parenting Growth Mindset to Help Our Kids Succeed
Inside: How to have a parenting growth mindset to help our kids succeed and grow and learn they can keep on getting better at hard things. Last night, around my family dinner table, we threw a party for my 9-year-old son. We toasted him, we praised him, and we whooped and hollered. My son, who […]
Holiday Art with Pointillism
Inside: Celebrate the holidays around the year with these pointillism art projects that are fun and easy to do with kids at home or in the classroom. In our family, we love holidays. We have boxes and boxes of holiday decorations for each and every holiday. And no holiday is too “small” to have its […]