I have created a list of books to read during Black History Month and beyond. The above book stack is listed below. To see each individual cover, scroll down to the YouTube video below. 34 Picture Books to read during Black History Month by Black Authors Move the Crowd song by Eric Barrier and William […]
Added this book to our picture book collection and added a copy to my shop @thedopekidfest !! DARRYL’S DREAM is an inspiring story written by the legendary rapper, Darryl “DMC” McBride of the ground breaking Hip Hop group, RUN DMC. SUMMARY: The story follows Darryl, a young student that receives an A on his poem […]
January 17 is Former First Lady Michelle Obama’s birthday. To honor her, I created a coloring sheet. My daughter had a fun time coloring the sheet. She even added her own list to Mrs. Obama’s hair. To get your copy of the coloring sheet, click the picture below. Make sure to tag #justmeomaya on all […]
A great book to have on your bookshelf during November is HISTORY SMASHERS: The Mayflower by Kate Messer with illustrations by Dylan Meconis. HISTORY SMASHERS is very detailed, thoroughly researched, and amusing exploration into the story of the Mayflower. It gives a complete and factual history of the people that were on the Mayflower and […]
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 […]