What's Coming Next: My Plan

 Update:  Tentative Plan

Tuesdays are for Library Notes

Thursdays are for Building Skills 'How-tos'

Saturdays are for Themed Activities

The next three posts will be 

A is for Antonyms (building literacy skills), A is for Ants: themed activities (actual ants, words with 'ant' in them and Automatic Negative Thoughts) and The Ants Go Marching One by One: Library Notes.

I am so excited to share them with you!

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