Make it Monday: Words at Play Literacy Station

In which I create a literacy station to promote learning beginning sounds and consonants. A few months ago one of my storytime moms gave me a box of supplies. Blocks, paper, little manipulatives, to name some of the supplies. These items came from her sister, a former second grade teacher who was now teaching an older grade and had no…

Souper Sunday: You Light Up My Life

In the last three weeks The Librarian, The Bee and I have been inviting people over for Sunday dinner, what I call “Souper Sunday.” I waited until fall to start the dinners because I wanted to be able to enjoy a hearty bowl of soup while we enjoyed our fire pit and our schedules were ridiculous over the summer. However,…

Hello October

Throughout the month of September I did a little experiment. I was gentle with myself, set a routine in place and have been working on being present in the moment and guess what…it was wonderful!   Routine I always wanted to be a morning person but there is so much good TV on at 10pm! When I was a kid,…

Give Kids Sight Day Returns October 21st!

Free Eye Care for Kids at Jefferson Alumni Hall on Saturday, October 21, 2017 from 8:30am to 1:00pm

Tomorrow (October 31st) is…

…Halloween!I still celebrate Halloween, the revered day in which we dismiss a year’s worth of teachings and warnings and have our children disguise themselves in expensive store-bought costumes to beg for candy. At work I passed out posters with Halloween fun stuff on them and was informed by more than one parent that Halloween is not celebrated in their house.To…