I’ve done it! I finally opened my own YouTube channel and have posted my first (experimental) video!!!!!! I am so thrilled! Please take a look at it and let me know what you think 😀 Take care, Catia

If I were to show you a bowl containing apples and asked how many you see, you would probably have little trouble telling me the correct number. How does that happen? Why does our brain recognize the number of apples in the bowl without the need […]

Hello everyone! Today’s post is the first of a new series that I hope you will enjoy.  Land of Books will bring to you some of my favourite books and the reasons why I like them so much. 🙂 Being a mother of three avid […]

Once in a while my friends send me links to teaching products that have been created by other teacher-authors and that use my digital papers. I always like to take a look at what others came up with using my stuff, and usually I end […]

Once in a while my friends send me links to teaching products that have been created by other teacher-authors and that use my digital papers. I always like to take a look at what others came up with using my stuff, and usually I end […]

May 13, 2014Always a Teacher & Forever a Mom “Learning should be a reward in itself!” This is the philosophy my husband and I use to raise our children. We firmly believe that rewarding children for every single thing they do isn’t healthy. Rewarding children […]

Since I spend so much time developing my teaching resources, a few months ago I decided to organize a tiny little space in our basement for this purpose. It is there that I consult books and notes. It is there that I write the rough […]

Today’s game is one that I often played in my childhood. As I planned this post I fondly recalled a sunny afternoon, sitting in our front yard with a neighbour girl and moving the pieces one by one 🙂 The traditional name of this game […]

With Valentine’s Day gone, it is time to think of the next holidays 🙂 I know Mardi Gras (or “Carnaval” like we call it in Portugal) comes before St. Patrick’s Day; however, I could not resist and make these! 😀 These cute magnets are an […]

Amazingly, I can pin point the exact moment when I realized that teaching was what I was meant to do in life. Oh, I am convinced that growing up in a family where most of its members are teachers, had something to do with it. […]