Happy New Year to you all!
Before we start a new year of book recommendations we’re looking back at the most viewed blogposts of 2015. They aren’t all blogposts that were written last year and they include several of our learning activities posts where we have linked different arts, crafts, science and other learning activities to some of our favourite picture books.…
Christmas is a time for woolly hats, scarfs, gloves and hot chocolate. Despite very few of my childhood memories of Christmas including snow, (as it never snowed during the festive season when I was small) Christmas is always synonymous with snow and frost.…
The Story: This is the adorable story of a little polar bear who falls down a snowy hole, down down down into Father Christmas’s workshop. Father Christmas welcomes him with open arms and shows him around. Little Bear even gets to test the toys and has a ride on Father Christmas’s sleigh.…
Story Snug is 2 years old today! There are lots of people to thank before we share the five most viewed books during the last two years.
I would like to say a huge THANK YOU to Story Snug’s followers and to all of you who leave lovely comments on the posts.…
Happy World Teachers Day! We’re celebrating the work of teachers everywhere.
Teaching is a great job, it’s a wonderful feeling when you know you have been influential in a student’s learning or you help them to understand a concept that they have previously found difficult. …
With a birthday coming up in our house there is a lot of talk about invitations and cakes so we have been reading Kipper’s Birthday. Kipper is one of my daughter’s favourite characters and he and his friends have been with us since I started reading to her.…
The Story: Cactus Annie doesn’t want to go to cowgirl school. On her first day she gets everything wrong and Miss Tumbleweed, the teacher, tells her that she must try harder. On the second day of school Cactus Annie arrives to find that the pesky rats have stolen all the cows so Miss Tumbleweed sends everybody home.…
With the weather getting warmer and spring on its way we are starting to think about our garden and have already planted lettuce and basil seeds. Jasper’s Beanstalk is a great story to introduce the concept of planting and growth to young children.…