Category Day in the Life
Happy Chinese New Year’s Eve! I’ve spent the whole of January frustratingly searching for nice cards, so today I gave up and printed some lovely cards from Twinkl. (The symbol is fu “happiness”.) I also made my own ang paos (Mandarin:… Continue Reading →
Continuing our Spring Festival mini topic, we read The Runaway Rice Cake* by Ying Chang Compestine. It’s similar to various “gingerbread” stories like The Gingerbread Man, Gingerbread Cowboy, and Gingerbread Baby. There’s a hungry family, an item of food that… Continue Reading →
Today was Blue Monday, which is reportedly the most depressing day of the year. However, it was also Martin Luther King Day, which is far more uplifting and awesome. One of my favourite websites, Teachers Pay Teachers, was a great… Continue Reading →
Arriving with a whimper instead of a bang, 2017 has rolled in with a special helping of flu for me and the kids. There’s already been a couple of sick days this week, courtesy of a hacking cough, and a massive… Continue Reading →
It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas, as Robert Meredith Willson said in 1951. The Christmas tree is up; we put it up on St Andrew’s Day, when I caved to the kids’ request, and steeled myself to not… Continue Reading →
Thanksgiving isn’t a traditional holiday in the UK, but it is a welcome pause before the full onslaught of Christmas. (Thanksgiving 2016 is November 24th; it’s always the 4th Thursday in November.) My kids first started the annual Thanksgiving activities… Continue Reading →
