John Lewis, Good Trouble, and March

John Lewis, Good Trouble, and March

by | Jul 22, 2020 | Keeping Up With Kids

Representative John Lewis died over the weekend.  My heart gets full with gratitude when I think of him, all the work he did for our nation.  He was a United States Representative from Georgia for more than three decades, and before that he was a leader in the Civil...
Homeschooling

Homeschooling

by | Jul 15, 2020 | Keeping Up With Kids

Homeschooling looks lots of different ways.  Here’s a homeschooler who built a cob oven (out of clay and sand–a multi-day project), built a fire inside it, and is approaching it with swim goggles for protection from smoke in the eyes.  Next...

What Jessica Bratt Is Up to These Days

by | Jul 10, 2020 | Keeping Up With Kids

Many of you hopefully remember Jessica Bratt, who presented a great webinar for the Wild Wisconsin Winter Web Conference in 2019 titled Let’s Talk About Race, about how to successfully talk about race in a positive way in storytime with very young children and...

Stories about StoryWalks®

by | Jul 6, 2020 | Keeping Up With Kids

Thanks to Valerie from Ladysmith for sharing this wonderful guest blog post about creating a StoryWalk® for Ladysmith.  I had the idea a couple of years ago when I first saw a library with a StoryWalk®. They were using lawn signs, which are great, but I wanted...