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Gift the magic of reading and learning! 🎁 Need a unique gift idea for the kids? There’s still time to hurry over to National Geographic where they are offering some sweet deals on Magazine Subscriptions, including the original National Geographic, Nat Geo Kids, and Nat Geo Little Kids! Just select the magazine subscription you are interested in, then click “subscribe/gift a gift”, and then you can choose your deal & subscription length! When you gift a Nat Geo subscription you’re encouraging reading comprehension skills, teaching science and social studies, and helping kids explore a world beyond just their front door. Not to mention those mesmerizing photos! 🤩 One of our favorites is this 2-Year National Geographic Kids Magazine subscription +...

Complaints are a normal part of business. No matter what kind of business you run, how you run it and what happens, there are always going to be some complaints. The aim should of course be to have as few as possible, but it would be impossible to keep it down to zero – though of course, aiming for that might well benefit the business in many ways. So with complaints being a normal part of the process of running a business, the question becomes: how should you deal with complaints and what kind of process should you generally follow?   In this post, we are going to discuss this in some detail. By the end, you will have a...

Bringing a dog into the family is a lot of work, but it’s also a very exciting time especially for kids. Dog coloring pages can be an easy way to familiarize your child with their impending dog responsibilities such as putting out food and water or exercise. Kids can also think of dog coloring pages as a welcome home gift for your family’s new fluffy four-legged friend. If your family already has a dog, then nailing their woof and wagging their pretend tail probably ranks high on your kid’s to-do list and rightfully so. We wish we were just like dogs at their age too! Fuel their love for canines with an uplifting and brain-empowering activity like coloring. Whether you’re...

There was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Bell is the hilarious rhyming story about the crazy old lady that will leave your students laughing! WHY BOOK COMPANIONS? Book companions are a fun and engaging way to get students interacting with a read aloud picture book! When I was teaching I had a lot of difficulty finding leveled book companions that would meet the needs of students in my self-contained classroom, so I made my own. Here’s a look inside the There was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Bell Book Companion ((This blog post contains affiliate links for your convenience. You don’t pay any more by clicking my link (and I actually find the best prices for you!) but I make a...

Last week I read a Book Widgets blog post about fun ways to use timelines in your lessons. Reading that post inspired me to make a new video about making timelines with Adobe Express. It also prompted me to update my list of good tools for making multimedia timelines. Timeline JSTimeline JS is still my favorite tool for making multimedia timelines. Timeline JS creates a timeline based on entries made in a Google Spreadsheets template provided by Timeline JS. Your entries can include videos, images, text, and audio recordings. Take a look at this tutorial to learn how to use Timeline JS.   Flippity Timeline TemplateIf Timeline JS seems a bit too complicated for your students, Flippity.net offers another way to create...