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Celebrating May Day

May 1, 2015 Claire Annette Noland 8 Comments

May Day is an old fashioned holiday that isn’t celebrated much. That doesn’t mean we can’t bring it back, though. Whatever happened to Maypole dances? I did this once when I was five years old. I don’t remember much about kindergarten but I do remember holding onto a beautiful ribbon and going around the pole […]

Filed Under: Celebrate, Field Trips Tagged With: May Day

Z is for Zambia

April 30, 2015 Claire Annette Noland 6 Comments

Z – Can it be? Yes, we’ve reached the end of the alphabet in the 2015 A to Z April Blog Challenge. As a kindergarten teacher, I know what a big deal it is when we reach the letter Z. It is also a big deal for all the A to Z Blog challengers. Here […]

Filed Under: Books, Field Trips, Multicultural Children's Books, Places Tagged With: a to z blog challenge, Africa - folktales, Beautiful Blackbird by Ashley Bryan, Read Your World - Zambia, Zambia in children's books

Y is for Yosemite

April 29, 2015 Claire Annette Noland 12 Comments

Y is for Yosemite We’re nearing the end of our Read Your World adventure on the A to Z Blog Challenge. It is day 25, the letter is Y and I don’t have to look far from home to find the perfect field trip spot – Yosemite! I was blessed to be in a family […]

Filed Under: Books, Citizen Science, Field Trips, Places Tagged With: John Muir and Yosemite, moonbow, Moonbow. Yosemite Falls Moonbow, Read your world, Teddy Roosevelt and Yosemite, The Camping Trip That Changed America: Theodore Roosevelt John Muir and Our National Parks, Yosemite - children's books

X is for Xian

April 28, 2015 Claire Annette Noland 14 Comments

We are nearing the end of the A to Z April Blog Challenge where my theme is Read Your World with Kid’s Books. Today’s letter is X which was the one I was most worried about. There are not many places that begin with the letter X and those that do don’t seem to have […]

Filed Under: Books, Field Trips, Multicultural Children's Books, Places Tagged With: children's books set in China, Secrets of the Terra-Cotta Soldier, Xian China

W is for Washington D.C.

April 27, 2015 Claire Annette Noland 10 Comments

Welcome to Day 23 in the A to Z Blog Challenge where we post in alphabetical order during April. My blog theme for the month is Read the World with Kid’s Books. W is our letter of the day so we are heading to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue which is, of course, the address for the […]

Filed Under: Books, Citizen Science, Farm Fresh, Field Trips, Food, Places Tagged With: a to z blog challenge, First Garden: The White House Garden and How It Grew, Gardening, Michelle Obama, Read your world, Washington D.C.

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