We’re Going on an Adventure!

I LOVE teaching Career Lit! If you’re not part of Cabell County you’re probably wondering what Career Lit is exactly. It’s pretty simple really, it teaches students various career areas through four different modules. In 7th grade students learn about journalism, business, tourism, and art/technology. Since I’ve had personal and professional experience in each of

Using Pixar Storytelling Rules to Create Content (PART 2)

Welcome to part 2 of using Pixar’s 22 Storytelling Rules to create content on social media! Rule #2: “You gotta keep in mind what’s interesting to you as an audience, not what’s fun to do as a writer. They can be very different.” Now, if you’re like me you’ve seen how the trend on social

Using ELA Skills to Create Content (PART 1)

How can you use Pixar’s 22 Storytelling rules for social media?

Let’s Go Fly A Kite

As Valentine’s Day approaches today’s advent is inspired by my love for the film Mary Poppins! And today is National Fly a Kite Day- so enjoy this gif and art and ‘let’s go fly a kite!’

Valentine and Chocolates

It’s day 3 of my Valentine Advent countdown (click the link here to read the first in this series.) and Valentine’s Day is synonymous with chocolates! Today is National Dark Chocolate Day and I went all out this year! I bought a set of silicone molds and of course it included Mickey molds! Now, I

Making Goals in the New Year

I love making goals for the new year. I try to stick with them, and I’ve learned not to let the goals become a noose. I know it’s cliché to make my first blog post focus on my goals for the new year but so be it, I’ll add a little extra though and share

Christmas Writing Challenge 2021

Last year I did 25 Days of Christmas books- well at least I tried to do all 25 days but I struggled a little to do them all between school and general life. This year instead of having to find time to read and review 25 books I was inspired by Pinterest and chose to

Book Blizzard

If you are like most people you may have been without power over the last few weeks or maybe you are still struggling with the affects of the terrible February winter storm. It seems like we excitedly welcomed 2021, thinking it would be better than 2020, and though there have been a couple good moments,

Celebrating Culture: Lunar New Year 2021

Mulan’s Lunar New Year, by Natasha Yim, with illustrations by Sophie Li, is a wonderful mix of a Disney favorite and the celebration of the Chinese Lunar New Year. It’s so important for kids to learn about other cultures, and honestly as an adult I’ve never really learned anything about the Lunar New Year until