Shopping for stocking stuffers is one of my favorite things to do for my family at Christmastime! My family still goes to our parent’s homes on Christmas morning and we open our childhood stockings. It is such a fun tradition! My Mom always fills my stocking with lots of things for my classroom. Here are a few of my favorite stocking stuffers fo... Read more 12 Dec 2019 - 2 minute read
It’s Day 9 of our Christmas Book Advent and today my son opened My First Treasury of Snowy Tales. I made sure that he opened this book in the morning, because it is a long book filled with several different short stories. It was so much fun reading all of these short stories all throughout the day. Snow Ball Fight Growing up, we used to have pa... Read more 09 Dec 2019 - 1 minute read
It’s day 8 of our Christmas Book Advent and today I have a bit of a different story for you! Today we are reading The Snowman! This book is filled from cover to cover with pictures that tell the story of the snowman. However, this book is left a little up to interpretation because there are no words! I love that every time we “read” the pictures... Read more 08 Dec 2019 - less than 1 minute read
Can you believe we are already a week into December? It feels like yesterday we were sitting around the table for Thanksgiving! I am so excited to kick off day 7 of our Christmas Book Advent with If You Take a Mouse to the Movies. If you enjoy the If You Give a Mouse a Cookie series, then this book is going to become a quick favorite for you! It... Read more 07 Dec 2019 - 1 minute read
Today is day 6 of our Christmas Book Advent and we had so much fun reading Five Busy Elves! This story is cheerful and tells the story of how five elves get ready for Christmas at the North Pole. It is such a sweet story that helped my son get so excited about the Christmas season! Writing/Drawing Activity After reading the story, go back to th... Read more 06 Dec 2019 - less than 1 minute read