by Karen Leggett Abouraya This is the season to take a sketchpad or journal outside, walk a trail or just lie in the grass. Watching. W...

by Alison Ashley Formento Alphabet books fill the children’s shelves at libraries and bookstores. They are easily found in book bargain...

by Karen Leggett If you could be any wild animal, what would you be?  Kids can be motivated by animals any time of year, but in May the...

by Joan Waites With snow, sleet and rain still in the forecast, it’s sometimes hard to imagine that spring will ever arrive. One way to...

by Alison Hart Dear Ms. Hart,     My class of seventy sixth graders recently finished reading your book, Gabriel's Horses , during lit...

by Mary Quattlebaum We tend to take the letters of the alphabet for granted.  Face it, we’ve sung the ABC song umpteen times as parents or...