by Brian Crawford | Mar 28, 2014 | Fifth Grade, First Grade, Fourth Grade, Kindergarten, Posters, Second Grade, Sixth Grade, Third Grade
I’m a big fan of Earth Day! Growing up in Canada, I always appreciated the forests and lakes of my homeland (I probably would have appreciated the Rocky Mountains, too, but I grew up in the eastern part of the country. I guess I appreciated them from afar). I...
by Brian Crawford | Mar 25, 2014 | Fifth Grade, First Grade, Fourth Grade, Handouts, Second Grade, Third Grade, Writing
Spring is finally here! And the month of April is just around the corner. It’s one of my favorite months, with flowers blooming, celebrations for Easter and Earth Day, and a general upswing in peoples’ moods. It’s great to see the rebirth of our...
by Brian Crawford | Feb 26, 2014 | Posters, Teaching Resources
The month of March is just around the corner, and you know what comes with March… St. Patrick’s Day! St. Patrick’s Day is always a fun day for me. I’m about 50% Irish – my mother was born in Montreal, Quebec (as was I), as were her...
by Brian Crawford | Feb 7, 2014 | Teaching Tips
As a family, we thoroughly enjoy getting out and exploring nature together. I’ve posted about one of our nature walks before, in this post about our visit to a protected forested wetland near where we used to live in northwest France. I have also posted about...
by Brian Crawford | Dec 31, 2013 | Teaching Tips
In those final weeks of December leading up to 2014, I started coming up with some New Year’s resolutions. Without going into too much detail, the resolutions I started coming up with were your typical New Year’s resolutions… those that involved...
