GERMS!! Teaching kids about hand washing and how germs spread.

I love working with preschoolers, they are becoming their own person and absorbing all the information that's around them.  Along with taking in all the info they are also learning about sharing, which is sweet, until you are trying to teach them things they shouldn't share and why, like their cups and the toy that was just in their mouth...why toys are still going into mouths when they are transitioning into kindergarten, and beyond I'm not sure but yes that's something we deal with.  Any one around preschoolers and elementary age children can tell you that the staff is crossing their fingers in high hopes of not catching every "bug" that spreads like wildfire through their classroom or school.  There have been plenty of times when half the class is out sick.  Or a whole two weeks of passing the stomach flu from one kid to the next at the center.

Before we go on and talk more about germs and how to reduce the sick days for everyone, let's take a minute to give a round a applause, and say Thank You! to all the teachers in day care centers, preschools, bus drivers, aids, and any other staff that I might be forgetting at the moment because these teachers (and staff) are getting sneezed on, cleaning up vomit, wiping noses, and are so tired of saying wash your hands that I'm surprised they don't have that on a CD on repeat going off every 5 minutes.  LOL.  They are submerged in germs of all sorts of kids who are not their own offspring!  Thank you for providing an education to these kids who are oblivious to why you're gagging a bit about the green snot running down their nose...and yup into their mouth..."Why blow my nose?"  We've all seen that, and don't shake your head, you probably did it as a tot yourself.

Oh kids are so cute.

One of my favorite lessons to present is about germs and hand washing. Last year I shared with you my favorite gross germy book SICK SIMON.  It's still my favorite book that I am always sure to read to each class because of the illustrations and it's just the perfect book to go with this lesson.  This year I did some searching and came up with a full story time and more books that are also wonderful to go along with Sick Simon and some fun songs.

Bear Feels Sick
Written by Karma Wilson
Illustrated by Jan Chapman


This is a cute book to open with.

I love that Karma Wilson keeps the same characters throughout her Bear series and the same cadence and flow of words.  We know what we will meet Crow, Wren, Badger, Hare, and Mouse.  We expect a rhyme on each page, and the repetition of the title throughout the book that we associate with the this lovely series.

In Bear Feels Sick we find bear has a stuffy nose, and sneezing, and feeling sick.  I love the emotion you can put into these first couple pages really getting across how crumby Bear is feeling, and show the empathy for bear because we've all felt that way.  When Bear's friends come over and discover that he's sick they work together to take care of him.  They make him tea, put cool cloths on his head, and tuck him into bed while talking in whispers and being quiet so Bear can rest.  Finally Bear wakes up and feels better, but oh no, his friends are now sick.

As she always does Wilson includes many wonderful vocab words for the hungry minds of her readers.  I love how she finds so many unique words that fit so smoothly into her rhythm of writing.
Grumbles, coax, smidgen, quivers, fret, and frolic are all words we don't hear often in everyday language and having them in the book with context kids learn what they mean and they are added to their mental word bank.

Jan Chapman has done beautiful illustrations that capture the cozy feel of the den and all the animals.

There are so many talking points you can bring up with your kids:
What do the friends do to help Bear?  What do your parents do to help you feel better? The friends get sick, how do you think they got sick?  This leads into the question of "What makes us sick?"

I found that many kids around the age of four or five can answer this with "Germs!" Most of the kids know that you can't see germs but not really how they spread.  I usually read Sick Simon next so the kids see how Simon spreads germs to all his friends and get grossed out by the illustrations.  Then I'll go into the book Germs! Germs! Germs!


Written by Bobbi Katz
Illustrated by Steve Bjorkman

This is a reader book (Level 3) aimed for first and second grades, but younger kids will listen to this and it is a fun book to read aloud.

What I like most about this book is that it's written from the perspective of the germs and it's more scientific than the other books.  Katz goes into how you can see germs with a microscope, where they are found and how they spread.  Bobbi goes into how germs have friends who help them grow along with enemies who prevent the germs from making others sick.

The first paragraph is repeated throughout the book and brings home the point that germs are everywhere!  I like that with this book you learn that it's more than just one sick kid spreading germs, Katz mentions how germs grow in food and that it's important to put left overs away.  Then there's a kid who scrapes his knee and that germs can cause an infection.  At this point I always ask what does your mom or the nurse do when you get a scratch?  They wash it out to make sure it's clean, then they put a band aid on to make sure dirt and germs don't get in.   I also pause at the food part and ask if it's ok to eat a left over hot dog from last night that's been left out on the counter.  Most kids are grossed out by that and yell "NO!"

After reading Sick Simon and Germs! Germs! Germs! I also ask "What is the number one way to keep from getting sick and spreading our germs to our friends?"

HAND WASHING!

Thank you Pinterest for leading me to Loons and Quines @ Librarytime and the fun finger play, felt board, song they did that is all about germs on your hands and washing them away.  I found that the kids quickly caught onto the song and started singing along.  For the full song be sure to check out their post here.

I wanted to use the book Do No Lick this Book* *It's Full of Germs by Idan Ben-Barak and Julian Frost because of the title.  At first I thought the book would be fantastic and funny, and drive home the point of not putting things in your mouth including your hands, but I did not get that from the book.  The first couple pages were interesting and informative showing how many microbes can fit on a tiny dot and that they are found everywhere but page 13 turned my stomach and turned me off the book.  I did not use this book in my story time because of the interactive touching the book to pick up the main microbe, Min, and then telling the kids to touch their teeth!😨  Then touch your teeth again to take not only Min but another germ friend along for a trip, and on it goes to touching your shirt, skin, and then the book again!  I'm sorry, but that is the opposite of what I was trying to teach, if your fingers go in your mouth they should be clean before that, then washed again after.

Is everything in the book bad?  No, I like that there are close up images of the book fibers, teeth, and skin.  The last page of the book is the one I like best.  Throughout the book you meet a couple odd shaped germs that are collected and have names "Min, Dennis, Rae, and Jake"  on this last page there is information on each of them and what their real name is and what it actually looks like and where they are found and live.  The book isn't about how they make you sick.  E. coli reside in your intestines and do work there, the problem with E. coli is that if you don't wash your hands after using the bathroom (or for adults don't wash your fruit and veggies that have fertilizer on them) E.coli will make you sick and spreads fast.

To show just how quick germs spread, and what happens when we don't wash our hands I recommend getting Glo Germs and doing a fun science activity.
I turned my back on the kids while putting some glo germs in my hand and fake sneezed into my hand, then went and gave everyone a high five.  You can also use props to show germs on surfaces like pens, and toys.  After my high fives, and touching toys I used a black light to show all my germs.  Then I washed my hands the "speedy" way which I'm sure many of you have seen: pump soap onto hands, run under water, and fast dry...all done!  And I let the kids see me do this and say, "OK my hands are alllll clean, I washed them right? Let's see." The black light reveals that, yikes! I didn't do so good at getting rid of my germs.  This leads into the next song I found that helps kids wash their hands well.  There are many songs you can find on Pinterest about hand washing, I found that I like "Tops and Bottoms" the most because it has the kids wash tops, bottoms, in between the fingers, and all around.  The goal is to be washing your hands for 20 seconds.  Other songs that take about that long to sing are: Mary Had a Little Lamb, Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, and the ABCs.

Did you know that drying your hands is just as important as washing them?

"...the dryer the hands, the fewer transmissible germs...."

I didn't know that either until I read Germ Proof Your Kids The Complete Guide to Protecting (Without Overprotecting) Your Family from Infections.  This was a interesting and good read.  Not a kids book but great resource for adults.  Germs are everywhere, we know that, and can you really Germ Proof you Kids? No, you can't put your kids in a bubble, they will catch colds, and occasionally the flu, or eat something bad, just like all of us. Harley A. Rotbart, M.D. has written a very well researched book about the multitude of viruses, bacteria, fungus, and everything in between.  He tells what each of them cause, how they spread, signs of having one.  Now this book is 11 years old now so I'm sure more studies have been done and I'd love to see a second edition of this book.  Regardless of the age of the book, much can be learned from Harley's findings.  He shares how to do your own research, trust your gut moms, and explores myths, and how to prevent your family from catching everything they come across, and relieve some worries.  He shares how kids immune systems are built and strengthened because of their exposure to all the germs.


Fun fact to leave you with...

"Viral genes are only smart enough to allow the virus' survival and reproduction within [a human]. Viruses cannot survive for more than a short time, and cannot reproduce at all, outside of the living host."

I should mention that in my lesson with germs and hand washing I also am sure to bring up how to cover coughs and sneezes into elbows if you have long sleeves or into your shirt with kids.

 

I hope that you have found these books helpful and the lesson to be fun.  Remember to wash and dry your hands often, stay home if you have a fever, vomited, or are contagious so as to not spread whatever "bug" you have to your co-workers, friends, and classmates.

The Gingerbread Man Loose in the School with discussion questions and activities

I had a lot of fun with The Gingerbread Man Loose in the School by Laura Murray.  I used this book for a children's book club book, and found so much that could be talked about and activities that could be done around this adventurous story.

First let me tell you about the book.

I learned that this was Mrs. Murray's first book!  She had been a teacher and this book was an activity she had done with her class at the beginning of each school year!  This is a great book that you can use on the first day of school to start off the year or read it and have fun at any point in the year.

In the book a class bakes a gingerbread man and then they leave for recess, the gingerbread man then explores the school trying to find his class.  He meets the gym teacher, nurse, art teacher and the principle.  I love how the book is an introduction to school and different rooms of the school, and a twist on the original gingerbread man story.  When I presented this book to preschoolers I retold the original story first with puppets, that way they can make guesses about what they think will happen in the book and compare the two stories.

Puppets I made for retelling the original story (condensed) 

Laura does a great job in rhyming and using some great vocabulary words in the rhymes.  I don't think I would have thought to rhyme with "complete" or "explore."  I thought this was very clever and Murray does add in many great vocab words to share and discuss.

The lay out of the book is another point worth sharing.  Unlike most picture books that have one photo per page or page spread, Mike Lowery has done the illustrations for The Gingerbread Man Loose in the School in a comic book style, where there are a typically two to four boxes with illustrations on each page.  I like this layout.  I love that each page isn't in the same format, some pages have three illustrations, some have only one and the timing of each set lets you ask your readers to predict what they think will happen next.

My favorite thing about this book is all the opportunity there is to have open ended discussion with your readers.  There are also many crafts and activities you can do around this book and gingerbread men in general.  Let me dive into sharing some discussion questions I used while reading this book.

Pre-Reading...Before you even open the book here are some questions to get the mind working and predicting:

What do you think will happen in this book?  This is a question that you can ask before reading any book.  Look at the cover, what clues does it give you for what this book is about?  What does the title say about what might happen or who might be in this book?  

Who is the author?  Illustrator?  This allows you to teach the kids what an author does and what the illustrator's job is.

Where do you think a gingerbread man would have the most fun at school?  I loved asking this question and listening to the different responses.  Don't be afraid to ask the kids Why they chose the room they did.  My oldest daughter answered with, "A gingerbread man would have the most fun in the gym and art room. Because they are my favorite places. He'd make a mess and play with the stuff and create portraits and paper-mache" While my youngest chose the playground because he'd have fun playing there.  Let you're child's imagination run wild here.  For teachers you can turn this into a writing assignment for older kids.  Not only where would he have the most fun but describe what the gingerbread man would do.

While Reading Questions:  As I said earlier the layout of the book offers many areas not only areas to ask "What will happen next" questions but many chances for other discussion as well. These questions you can choose some to ask during the reading of the book or save other to ask when you've finished reading and go back to the page you're referring to if you want.

What other ingredients might you need to make gingerbread cookies?     What would you use to decorate a gingerbread man?

The Gingerbread Man broke his toe!  Have you ever broken a bone?  Where can he go to get his toe fixed?  Who could help him?  How will the nurse fix his toe?

Is using the handrail as a slide safe?  What could happen to the gingerbread man by sliding down the handrail?  In my online group I asked the adults to admit to having done this, I never had the guts to and when I read the book to preschoolers I remind them that it's not safe and if Miss Fawn were to try it I'd probably fall and get hurt, but since this is a cookie and he's in a book he can try it and anything can happen.

When he lands in the lunch bag you can ask Do you like cookies with your lunch?  What is your favorite type of cookie?

Post-Reading-Questions: 

Which gingerbread man story did you like better, the original where the fox eats the gingerbread man, or the school one where he becomes part of the class?

What would you do if your gingerbread man came to life?  This was a favorite question of mine to ask because it's completely open ended with no wrong answer.  Asking this in a group setting was interesting to see how many different answers there were.


How would you feel if your gingerbread man ran away?

What was your favorite part of the book?  Why?

What did you think of the illustrations?  This is a good question to ask for any book because you're showing them that they can have their own artist style.

Would you recommend this book to other people?  Why or Why not?

There are a lot of directions in the book, are you good with finding your way around new places?

For comprehension:

Who did the gingerbread man meet?

What happened in the book?  Go over the sequence of events.

Activities!!  

Be your own illustrator!  Create your own gingerbread man.  As the adult you can decide what materials you want used or let your kids decide how they want to make their gingerbread man.

Baking!  Obviously the book opens with cooking and is a clear activity to go along with the book.  Break out the aprons, dust off that gingerbread cookie recipe and create your own man or girl.  You don't have to stick with gingerbread, have your kids help bake their favorite cookie.

Rhyme Time!  The book is full of rhyming words.  I took a poster-board and wrote down several different rhyming sequence that were in the book then had kids match up the rhyming words.  You could ask further this by having them write their own rhyming word to go on the board or list.

Two different games I designed were for preschool and kindergarten and you can customize this to fit your own grade level.  I did numbers for preschool and had kids take turns rolling a die and coloring in the number they rolled.  They had to count the number of dots on the die and find the corresponding number on their picture and color that in.  In small groups they took turns and helped each other.  For kindergarten I used sight words and flash cards.  You can draw up your own outline and do multiplication, addition, or whatever you want to practice with your kids.  If you want some that are already done I'd recommend the lovely Pinterest.

Fill the gingerbread man with descriptive words. This gets kids working on their vocabulary, and is a fun way to introduce adjectives to the class.  Even with kids who haven't learned what an adjective is or are unsure what "descriptive words" are I found you can coach the kids with asking them to tell me what their gingerbread man would look like, or how the cookie taste.  While doing this with a group add your own words as an adult. I had fun doing this activity in my literacy group and sharing the answers of kids and getting various parents and teachers comments their own descriptions.  Doing this and putting all the words together for everyone to see and hear gets creativity flowing and leads to more thoughtful answers.  So while at first we had words like hot, sweet, amazing, yummy, soft we then started to dig deeper and then words like spunky, animated, fancy, sassy, and squishy were added to the list.  Getting adults to participate in activities like this enhances learning for kids because they see the excitement of adding another word and their vocabulary grows as well.  This could also lead to a deeper discussion: What about the word "gullible" Would you say the gingerbread man in the original story was gullible to believe the fox was going to help him?

One last activity I did with the kid's book club and online was:

I love word games! Boggle has long been a favorite of mine and it's great for kids to have fun spelling and changing letters around without the pressure of a test or grading.

Do you want more activities?  Laura Murray has a wonderful website where she shares some more activities and teaching tools you can use to go with her book and check out all the other adventures her gingerbread man goes on!

Want some other gingerbread books?  Check out these:

Stay warm, have fun, and as always enjoy a good book!

Fun Fall Books

While I'm a warm weather person, I do love all that Autumn brings.  I love the fall foliage, pumpkin everything, Halloween, Thanksgiving, and I can still in the early half of the season enjoy all I love to do in the Summer as well.  The change of the seasons is magical.  Who, even as adults, doesn't enjoy looking at a landscape ablaze in colors?  For kids there are so many things to do and explore as the leaves fall and temperatures cool off, so to help you celebrate this season and have so much with activities to look forward to I've gathered a couple of fun Fall books.

Full Of Fall

by April Pully Sayre

This book is beautifully done. The vibrant cover photograph grabs your attention and pulls the reader right into the season.  I love April's use of alliteration throughout the book.  She is careful to not over do the alliteration but has rhymes mixed in and it's just a very simple yet eloquent way to say good-bye to summer and walk through fall foliage with children.  I love the vocabulary used!  This book while easy to keep the attention of very young kids I think it's a book that you can use for class with third graders still. It's a beautiful way to introduce talking about why leaves fall, why they change color and talk about what happens.  There's even a page that tells you about the parts of a leaf!  The book is educational but for all the lessons you can take from it, it's still a poetic and fun read.  This one is a must for the season for babies on up.

I love that April Pully Sayre has used photography instead of illustrations.  The images are vibrant, and as she says "Colors surge," though the entire book.  I love the crisp details!

At the end of the book there are two pages full of in depth information on why leaves are green, how they change colors, and a lot of science that is fascinating.  I learned more in those 2 pages then I did in school about this season.  For example did you know that while the leaves are changing color and dying they are actually still working for the tree?  They deconstruct chlorophyll and send back into the tree what nutrients the tree can reuse.

So while that book is more educational based but still simply fun to read my next two I'm sharing are books to help those who are just starting to read, Kindergartners, maybe some preschoolers who are doing sight words.

A Season of Sight Words "Fall"


Written by Shannon Penney
Illustrated by Lynne Avril

I did at one time 4 years ago have all 5 books, but now that my youngest is doing sight words in Kindergarten it seems that I'm missing 4 of them.  I'm tearing the house apart trying to find the others because she loves that she can read on her own to us now that she has a handful of sight words she knows.  Going on a Hayride is so far the only book in the set I can find and it's really great for those just starting to read.  This one focuses on the words "it," "yes," and "is."  These are very simple sentences of 3 to 5 words max, and that's throughout the set.  Each book in the set has it's own two main sight words that are in bold in the sentence and are repeated on each page so the child sees them, and reads them over and over to reinforce them in their memory.

The illustrations really brings the book together.  It is a picture book that you can see what is going on and that is key to helping children begin to use context clues in reading.

I think these are fun fall books because they have five favorite autumn activities: bonfires, hayrides, leaves, pumpkins, and football!  So for young children if you take one of these books to focus on each week you can talk all week about hayrides, have the child read the book each day and then on Friday (or if you're doing this at home) on the weekend go for a hayride and have your child tell you what they thought.  Have one week that's all pumpkin themed, and so on for each book.

Check out some of these sight word games you can add in as well:

Autumn Leaves Are Falling

Written by Maria Fleming
Illustrated by Melissa Sweet

This is another great beginning reader book.  It's a Level 1 aimed for preschool to first grade.  The sentences are simple, a step up from the Sight Word books but still very simple with a strong focus on those high frequency words.  You will see a lot of repetition still but with a bit more pages and words on each page.  As you can expect from the title the focus is on leaves falling and what you do with them.  You can start by asking your child what they think will happen in the book before you start reading.  It's great to have children predict what will happen, and start developing those hypothesis and context clues early on in reading so they will carry on as they grow.

A fun activity to do with this book would be to make your own leaf pile, have the kids help rake and jump in the leaves, then have them describe to you how they felt, and where were the leaves after jumping in.  As a child this was the highlight of the season was to see how big of a pile of leaves we could make.

My last book is just a funny picture book that is a blast to read aloud and I'm sure you can find so much to do with this from a preschool level up into intermediate school.

Fall Mixed Up

Written by Bob Raczka
Illustrated by Chad Cameron

This is a book that is sure to crack you up.  I dare you to try to read this with a straight face.  You won't be able to and the kid(s) you read to won't be able to keep from calling out that you're wrong about well everything mentioned in the book. It might take a minute...Are apples orange?  Wait a minute I know squirrels don't fly!  I love that Bob Raczka has taken all things having to do with Autumn and has twisted them around into a funny story that makes kids (and adults) think twice about what was just read and then picture this crazy alternative to how things really are.

Chad Cameron has done a great job on the illustrations in capturing fall as we know it and making this alternative world almost believable.  The illustrations are full of color and just as funny as the text.

There are so many fun activities you can do around Fall Mixed Up!  You can do the obvious and go through and point out all that is mixed up and tell what really happens for each.  Talk about what animals hibernate, and what other animals do instead?  Where does candy corn come from if it's not grown?  You can have your child(ren) do their own drawings of something crazy mixed up they think would be fun to see.

Ready for some more fall fun?  Check out some bucket list adventures you can do as a family:

80 ways to have Fall Family Fun

20 ideas for Toddlers this fall

Fall Bucket List 

I hope everyone gets out to enjoy the last couple summer days we have before Fall officially starts on Sunday! 

Kindergarten Here We Come!

My youngest is off to Kindergarten next week!  And I have been in denial most of the summer, I can't believe it's here already.  So While I've been putting off back to school shopping, and telling myself I have more time with her at home, the days have been flying by and we are in the home stretch.  Books have been helping to get her excited about "big kid school" and I wanted to share with you some books about the first day of school and starting Kindergarten.

K is for Kindergarten


Written by Erin Dealey
Illustrated by Joseph Cowman

As you can gather from the title this is a book that goes through the alphabet with words starting with each letter about how fun kindergarten is.  You can find this book in the non fiction section.  While you can read just the story part to your child about how "D is for following directions," and "J is for jitters," this book also offers some great activities on the side panel of each page.  These activities offer many conversation starters so you can get your little one to open up and ask any question and have the whole family talk about their first day at school.  Other activities offer crafts and ways to have your child prepared for kindergarten.

If your little one isn't going to kindergarten this year, I'd suggest getting this book to read throughout this year to start getting them excited and preparing them for what school will be like.  Another great program you should look into near you is Head Start and the local library and see if they offer a pre-K story time or a Cruise into Kindergarten program.

Back to the book.  Moms you will love letters Q and R both for different reasons.  The activity for Q is to see if you can play the Quiet Game, set a timer and see if you can read a book or do something without talking for 5 minutes!  R talks about the restroom and washing your hands after.

The illustrations are almost magical which helps little ones get excited about this new place they will be off to without their adult with them.  I love the colors and diversity that is shown throughout the book.  Joseph Cowman did a wonderful job showing all the different types of kids that will be at school, tall, short, glasses, all different races, and I love that he included a child in a wheelchair and leg braces.  This is another great talking point.  If your child has something that makes them feel different this is a great way to show them that they aren't alone, there are other kids like that and maybe they will find a new friend at school that is like them.  It's also a way for parents to talk about different handicaps and explain how children are different and how to treat others.


David Goes to School


by David Shannon

We all know the book No, David, this is David going to school with the same issues.  I picked this book because it gives you an opportunity to talk about how you behave in school.  "Wait your turn, David!" This is a wonderful way to show children how they need to behave.  The illustrations show how the line could be long and how other kids feel if you cut.  I love the way David Shannon put the text you read on the beginner writers paper you know the one with the dotted line in the middle.  Kids who are learning to write on the same type of paper are going to recognize it and say, "I use that paper, see what I can write!"  As much as you don't want to laugh and show your children misbehavior, it's something all kids struggle with.  All children are full of energy and won't want to come back inside after recess or might have trouble being quiet at the right times.  Think of yourself on a beautiful day and you go out for lunch and the day is just so pretty you don't want to go back inside to work, or how when there's a meeting starting but you and a friend are in a really good conversation that's IMPORTANT (by important I mean the latest gossip) and all of a sudden you realize everyone else is quiet except you.  These are all thing that children deal with as well but they are still learning control and how to behave.  I think this is a great book to show them how they should behave, by using David and his classmates.  This book really wouldn't work without the illustrations showing how his behavior is affecting the other students.
The wonderful thing about David Goes to School, is that it can be referenced throughout the year and in other grades as well.  It's not just a first day of school book.

The Night Before Kindergarten


written by Natasha Wing
art by Julie Durrell

Natasha Wing is known for her Night Before series, where she takes the well known Night Before Christmas and twist it for any occasion.  This time she beautifully tells about getting ready for kindergarten and that first day.

 "Erasers and crayons and pencils galore were stuffed in their backpacks and set by the door.  Outfits were hung in the closets with care, knowing that kindergarten soon would be there."

I think she's a brilliant in her way of taking the traditional and ordinary and blending them together to write something amazing.  She captures all the feelings of the night and first day of school and makes it feel like Christmas which kinda makes it hard to not be excited for!  Not to give the ending away but when the children are dropped off at school and the parents cry, I know that's going to be me!  My baby is leaving me for school where she'll be for six hours!  Yup, I'm already teary eyed.

Do you and your kids a favor and read this on the night before kindergarten!  It's a wonderful book for this special milestone!


Now if you're like me and don't have the erasers, crayons, and pencils galore (or any other school shopping) yet, all I can say is I'm happy Amazon has 2 day shipping for Prime members!  If you are unsure what is needed check out Good Housekeeping's Back to School Supplies for Kindergarten to College.  And I have some quick links here for you as well of things that have been commonly requested on my oldest over the last 4 years.

I hope all of you parents enjoy your last days home with your little ones as much as you can, and that all kids have wonderful first days of school!

my oldest on her first day of Kindergarten

Good By Summer, Hello School year

And if you are a teacher, or have a friend who is a teacher don't forget to let them know we understand that kids and parents aren't the only ones stressing over the first day of school.  Here are some gifts for them: