I have been working on letter recognition and letter sounds with my 2.5 year old son. Since it is Thanksgiving this week, I wanted to do an activity with that theme. I decided to make a cornucopia. Cornucopia was the perfect word that has a Thanksgiving theme and a hard C sound. So, I remixed […]
LET’S DEFEAT THE SUMMER SLIDE!! We have partnered with my brand, The Dope Kid, to launch a fun and interactive summer reading challenge! The Summer slide is the lose of significant knowledge over summer vacation especially in reading and math. This leads to skill lose each year. “A more recent study of children in 3rd to 5th […]
This book review is long overdue! When this book was released in January of 2019, I got a lot of text messages with a link to this book! Of course, I had already pre-ordered it but I loved that my family and friends knew me well enough to send over a book, they knew I […]
I decided to spice up my daughter’s reading journey! If learning to read was not hard enough, I had to be extra and sprinkle in some Spanish. I have been preparing for this for a while and really did not know when was the best time to start, the best method, etc! I have learned […]
The first time I saw this book, I had to buy it. But since I spend waaaay too much money on picture books, I was trying to discipline myself into going to the library more. After a few trips for story time and getting rather good at returning our books on time. I remembered to […]
When my daughter was a baby, I was really into the Rockabye Baby albums. These are lullaby versions of popular music and I had the Michael Jackson, Rihanna, and Jay Z ones. One problem, I would always get the actual songs stuck in my head. I would sing them all day, which was not a […]
I read a lot of books with my children but I have never real kept track of all of it. So, I wanted to create a series that documents all of the books we are enjoying in real time. My daughter and I are currently reading TWINS by Varian Johnson and Illustrated by Shannon Wright. […]
March is Women’s History Month and to celebrate I bought the wonderful book, LATINITAS: Celebrating 40 Big Dreamers by Juliet Menéndez. My little latinita was excited to get a book that celebrated Latinas like her and had even more fun reading some words in Spanish and Portuguese. The book is primarily written in English but […]
Now that you have diversified your bookshelves, don’t forget to diversify your children’s music. Just like seeing and learning experiences of others through literature, you can also sing along with a diverse track list. When I started my blog in 2015, I had the idea of using Hip Hop music to teach my kids simple […]
Healthy Hip Hop I have been a fan of Healthy Hip Hop since is was the first cd I bought in 2016 under Rappin Roy and Reggie Regg (click here to check that music out). And I am even more excited how they have elevated the game for children’s hip hop music. Healthy Hip Hop […]