What Books are You Feeding Your Child Today? Words in poetry and in stories are food. Not food for the body, not food that can fill up your stomach. But food for the spirit and food for the soul. Written by Peter Svetina, translated by Jernej Županič International Children’s Book Day celebrates the joy of […]
~ Questioning What You Read ~ Thinking of buying a new book for your children or class? With the hundreds of children’s books and young adult books published every year, it is often hard to make a wise selection. Those glossy cover books sitting up front in the bookstore or hyped on Amazon or Barnes […]
9 Ways to Weave Peace Education into Any Curriculum at Any Grade Level 1 Reading/ELA: Select read-aloud and reading assignment books that introduce students to people who look different and live differently than they do. Find suggested books here: TPNBooks 2 Classroom Discipline: Practice conflict resolution methods and use them to solve issues that arise in the […]
The Campaign for a Commercial Free Childhood, is sponsoring Screen Free Week for April 29-May 5. Young children now spend 32 hours a week in front of screens – TVs, computers, iPads, and cell phones. Recent research on the effect of the overuse of computers and hours spent indoors on the vision of children strongly suggests that screen exposure […]
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