The two books in this story time are "The Great Santa Stakeout" by Betsy Bird and "Bear Stays Up For Christmas" by Karma WilsonHere's the run down . . .Action Song: Up On The HousetopUpon on the housetop, reindeer pause (point up to ceiling)Out jumps good old Santa Clause (jump)Down through the chimney with lots of toys

 This is a little display I put up on an empty shelf. Nothing ground-breaking, but thought I'd drop some pictures here.Didn't realize this one was at such an odd angle until I uploaded it!Truth be told, I haven't read all these books on display. How I wrote my blurbs was a combination of pulling from Goodreads reviews and

 This game was designed for a Boxcar Children book spotlight but ended up being its own thing. For this game, players align cars in order based on the symbol. So the locomotive has a yellow diamond, the next car should begin with a yellow diamond.As you can see, the car that begins with a yellow diamond ends with

 This idea comes from ResLife Crafts. It was found during a google search. Here's the original.  And here's the freshly stapled version I came up with . . .I had tried to come up with ways to make this more of my own instead of copying ResLife Crafts. Other questions and prompts included . . .What is the Grinch

 Tis the Season to be reading!Something about this bulletin board location pains my colors in pictures. The snowflakes are white, the "Tis the...To Be" is pale tan in color. Idea for this board came from this image I found on Pinterest . . .(If this is your handiwork, let me know so I can give due credit!) This reindeer inspired my

 This Thanksgiving Mobile is a fun little craft for kids to put together over the Thanksgiving holiday. My idea behind this was that kids could be do this with family at Grandma's or at Aunt Joan's or where ever you go to celebrate Thanksgiving. PREPTo prep this craft, I printed off holiday inspired clipart onto white cardstock and cut them

  This list is aimed to help emerging independent readers, aging around the 5-8 mark. For beginning chapter books, I feel like the most important thing it keeping the reader engaged so by having adventures and cliff-hangers, books are harder to put down! However, they’re also in that transition stage between picture books and chapter books. If a book