Erika’s Blog

Dec
19

Merry Christmas-make a Christmas Journal

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to each of you! In the last year I have been busy catching up with family and friends and writing my new book Making Writing Easy & Fun with Story Starters & Activity Pages. More about that in the New Year. But today I want to talk to you about […]

Mar
14

Fundraiser for Ukraine!

  Hi Everyone, I don’t usually do this but it has been a strange time in the last few weeks and I feel compelled to do something. My mother lost her father in WW1 when she was just 10 years old. My parents lost everything in WW2. I was lucky because I grew up in […]

Feb
22

Writing fun with Word Webs

Hi Everyone, I hope you all had a wonderful Family Day weekend!  Today’s lesson is on how to use word webs to make writing fun. Word webs are a fun way to improve spelling, reading, writing and comprehension. You can choose the word that fits with your current teaching theme, use it to teach new […]

Feb
14

More free writing and reading activities

Hello everyone, Today we will carry on with our writing activities. Remember, writing activities improve reading, writing, spelling, penmanship and comprehension. Whatever level your child is at writing every day will help in all those areas.  Some parents believe that the teacher and school should do all the teaching and that homework is not a […]