Book buddies

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These book buddies directed drawings are some of my favorite directed drawing projects that I created! I love that they can be incorporated so easily into literacy or center time....

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Cute book buddies idea

Happy Monday everyone! Since it is Monday, I just have to link up again with Tara over in 4th Grade Frolics for another edition of her Made it Monday linky party! Summer is winding down so of course that means that all my craft projects have to get done and quick! A few months ago I found this coffee table on the side of the road. Seriously, someone had put it out with the trash and even though it was raining, I just had to do a u-turn right then and there to check it out. My husband thought…

These little book buddies are easy to make. They’re so cute and will make such a fun bookmark for the kids. Take tongue depressors or Popsicle sticks and paint them a solid color. After they are dried, you can have the kids decorate the stick with markers. We did polka dots for lady bugs, stripes...Read More

At my school we call them learning buddies but you might know them as reading buddies or big buddies/little buddies. Whatever you call them, some times it’s hard to think of activities to do with them. I often found myself planning things on the fly so I decided to compile a list of activities that […]