Category Archives: Ms.DeFeyter’s Reading Nook

Happy New Year! I hope you found plenty of cozy reading time with your child and for yourself over the winter break, I sure did!  If you took the 18-day challenge I sent out before the winter break, be sure to let me know how you did. As Mrs. Pettitt wrote in her email, often… Continue reading →

Winter Break is just around the corner so I’ve created a Winter Family Fun Challenge to encourage reading and math activities during the time off from school.  If you and your family choose to take the challenge I encourage you to mark off each snowflake and bring the list to me when school resumes. I’d… Continue reading →

Dear NCSA Families, I hope that this finds you in warmth and good cheer as we begin to look towards the end of the year 2018.  In this week’s Reading Nook, I’ve shared books about some of the multicultural winter celebrations shared by families around this time of year.  I hope that you will look… Continue reading →

In this week’s Nook, Angie shares more reading resources for parents on raising strong girls and unbiased boys.   After speaking with Elisa Parker, a parent at NCSA and founder of See Jane Do, I decided to share parenting books this week.  The Nook takes you to a website with a blog full of books… Continue reading →

Dear Families, I hope you have enjoyed reading a good book aloud together or reading in the same room during the perfect rainy weather over the break from school.  Winter weather offers us more indoor time for fort building in order to create the perfect reading nook or time to play board games when we… Continue reading →