Welcome to Rainbows Within Reach! Look at that RAINBOW!  AUTHOR ILLUSTRATOR SCHOOL VISITThere is an amazing and supportive network of Kindergarten bloggers who teach me so much. I'm so grateful that  they allow me to be their mascot. I am so motivated to go to their classrooms and visit. Yesterday I was fortunate to make my way to the school of ...

End of Year Poems and Festivities Where are you in the countdown? Already celebrating summer or still with a few heartbeats to go? I'm making my annual rounds of 'end-of-the-year' Author-Illustrator school visits and I have some new images to share.  The poem above came home in the summer bags for the WonderPeeps. Miss Janet and Miss Dee had ...

CHILDREN'S BOOK WEEK -- GIVEAWAY EXTRA AMAZING! One of the most amazing things about being an author-illustrator of picture books -- is the opportunity to make school visits. One of the most incredible things about school visits is seeing 'student response' to your own work. This past week was superlative in every way! I had 3 on-site school ...

TECHNOLOGY: AMAZING TECHNOLOGY!!! What a whirlwind of amazing fun -- I'm in the midst of some serious good-times! At this moment we're physically in Indianapolis. Yesterday I was at Spring Mill Elementary with all of their kindergartners joyously packed into Kristen's Kindergarten.  Just moment's ago, from my Aunt Sue's loft, I had my ...

SPRING SCIENCE with SEEDSYesterday was so much fun! I made a 'house-call' to Osseo Elementary up here in north-central WI. To say this was a spur of the moment segway is only partially true. It had been in the works since Friday! LOL!!! I LUV LUV LUV making my author/illustrator school visits, but its even more *FUN* when its a surprise for the ...

  Children Interpret the Masters: Art History 101  Kindergarten Picasso Bouquet on Display at Washington School  ART HISTORY IN THE ELEMENTARY HALLWAYA special banner-rainbow welcome today to any and all Arts educators. I'm courting those that live in the art room, as well as all those that 'fill-in' as Arts educator, with today's RoundUP. These ...

Amazing Author-Illustrator School VisitDateline: Dixon, Illinois ~~ Washington School Meet the mastermind behind my latest incredible school visit! This is the amazing Carie Rameriz of Kindergarten Hugs. This is a woman who thinks big! Look what her kinders created for my welcome!  Carie and I have been dreaming planning for over two years -- ...

CLASSIC CLASSROOM CREATIVITY Today let's take a look around a delightful classroom that I had the pleasure of visiting last month in FL just before we started north. I know my regular readers enjoy looking over my shoulder, as I dash in and out of classrooms around the country making my author-illustrator school visits. This one's a ...