How many times have you cringed at the thought of your students and/or children exploring their creativity through paints and brushes? How many times have you tried to think of alternatives to art activities that do not involve so much mess and cleaning up? If you […]

For the last couple of months, I have been working on developing my “Telling Time” collection of teaching resources. My need to develop this collection was born out of necessity when some of my tutoring students were showing difficulties with their telling time skills. As […]

For the last couple of months, I have been working on developing my “Telling Time” collection of teaching resources. My need to develop this collection was born out of necessity when some of my tutoring students were showing difficulties with their telling time skills. As […]

This week I selected a video about teaching phonics. I have discovered Katie Garner about a year or so ago. Her videos are not only inspiring, they are also very instructive and motivating. In the video I selected for today, Katie demonstrates how to teach children about […]

This week I selected a video about teaching phonics. I have discovered Katie Garner about a year or so ago. Her videos are not only inspiring, they are also very instructive and motivating. In the video I selected for today, Katie demonstrates how to teach children about […]

This past week, 12 INCREDIBLE artists from the TpT Clipart Tribe came together to create something absolutely amazing!! For the first time, we brought our skills and artistic styles together and each artist was allowed to add a unique piece to create our very own […]

This past week, 12 INCREDIBLE artists from the TpT Clipart Tribe came together to create something absolutely amazing!! For the first time, we brought our skills and artistic styles together and each artist was allowed to add a unique piece to create our very own […]

Yeah! I’m in the spotlight this week! I belong to an amazing group of teacher clip artists and one of them (our very own Teaching in the Tongass) had the great idea of starting a Clipart Club. In this club, a selection of clip artists from our group […]

Halloween is almost here and so is the promise of candy and spooky costumes 🙂 Today I am participating in an exciting blog hop with some of my fellow Canadian teacher-authors. All you have to do is sit back, grab a cup of coffee (or […]

I am starting a new series of posts. Light, Camera, Action! posts will bring you videos that I have either found online or created myself. These videos will all be teaching related. Today’s video is one that some friends shared with me on Facebook. It […]