National Grandparents Day was this month, but if you ask me, I think we should celebrate grandparents every day! That’s why this adorable read-aloud, My Bibi Always Remembers, caught my eye. In it, a little elephant wants to be just like the grandmother elephant whose memory helps protect the herd. Submit a comment to the blog by 11:59 pm EDT Sunday, September 28, 2014, to tell me which of the items below are your favorites. One lucky teacher will win this book! (Update: Congratulations to Kristin, who is the winner of this book!)
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We all know how curious kids are. Celebrate that curiosity by planning a Curiosity Day event featuring Curious George! Click here to download a free event kit. You’ll get games and activities, event-themed nametags and images, coloring sheets, decorating ideas, and more. Then keep the curiosity going throughout the year with free classroom resources. Click here!
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Don’t forget; submit a comment for your chance to win My Bibi Always Remembers!
Karen |
Oh everybody loves Curious George! This looks awesome and I am going to go check it out!
I love the erasable colored pencils. My students like being able to erase after they realize that they goofed.
The new book looks great!
I love anything by Crayola.
Elephants are such wonderful animals. I would love to have any book that features this incredible animal.
Well if I absolutely have to pick it would be Curious George but I really love all the resources. Love playmobile. As a Grandparent and teacher you are right Grandparents should be celebrated daily.
A large part of my curriculum includes family involvement. Reading stories is a great way of including the family, so having a book that includes grandparents would really support the children’s learning. I would love to add, My BiBi Always Remembers to our library! Thank you for the opportunity!
Will definitely pass along the Playmobil info to our pre-k class, but I really am psyched to have Curiosity Day at our school. Thanks for the ideas.
Gotta go Crayola on this one!
many of my students have grown up with their grandparents living in their home … this would be perfect!
I love everyone of those items, but I am a reader so I would have to choose the book!
I would love My Bibi Always Remembers! What a great way to bring Grandparents Day into the classroom!
I’m having a hard time choosing when any one of these books could be so helpful to my class.
I would have to say they are all great but I pick the Curious George resource lots of good stuff in it. I too think grandparents should be celebrated more.Children can learn a lot from Grandparents.
Curious George
I love Curious George and all his books.