If you lined up some of the best read alouds (see list here) for back to school, I would seriously love all of them and I’d vote for them again and again. But, I would choose Pete the Cat hands down for that very first day back. WHY? Cause he’s all kinds of reliable. I […]
Special days kind of sneak up on me. I see them coming about a week before and I tell myself – Don’t forget to wear red for Valentine’s Day. Fast forward, I get to school on Valentine’s Day, see red all around me and then remember that I forgot all about it when I was […]
Winter – the season where you just need to buy a tuque and embrace it. As cold as it is and as hard as it is for me to love Winter, there are some things I truly do like about it. For starters, you can hibernate and not have to make any excuses about it. […]
I rhymed the title of this post. I had to. Pete the Cat just brings out the best side of me. I love him. I love him more than any other cat ever. And after all these years of being a huge Pete fan, the reason I love him remains the same. Yeah, he’s groovy, […]
I fell in love with The Great Kapok Tree about 10 years ago when I first discovered it. I was a 4th grade teacher at the time and as a class we decided to present it as a live play at the end of the school year. I can still remember how much fun my […]