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 ...

SIGNS OF SPRING! SPRING ARRIVES!Sweet signs of spring are surging out of the long, gray winter, bursting forth with new life! Look around. Search for evidence and share it! What could possibly make me, an author-illustrator of picture books, happier than seeing young children constructing their own first 'books'? Excellence in early education! ...

KINDERGARTEN AUTHOR-ILLUSTRATOR SCHOOL VISIT Dateline: South Daytona Beach Elementary School There's only one thing better than making a school visit as an author-illustrator. Pausing to allow you to guess. {Please insert the Jeopardy theme-song-jingle for flair during this broadcast silence.} The only thing better that a school visit?  A ...

Author illustrator slideshare from Debbie Clement SLIDESHARE #1!!Can you believe it? Did it work? I continue to attempt to leap tall buildings in numerous small bounds.  Enclosed above you will hopefully find a 53 slide 'scrapbook' of my travels making school visits -- with some library visits mixed in as well. All of this effort, (and I ...

Project Based Learning! What do you know about this approach to learning? I'm learning a whole lot myself!  I have had the great good fortune to spend time in kindergarten recently, where the PBL approach is being explored with vim and vigor! With my 'Author/Illustrator Day' to their school on their horizon, they investigated Veteran's Day in ...

Debbie Clement's Entire Storefront of Materials Now Available at Teachers Pay Teachers The day has arrived!! Let the serious shopping begin.  Welcome to my shameless marketing effort.  There are several things that thrill me about the image above:  I am gradually figuring out how to navigate at TpT.My little store continues to grow bit by bit, ...

CELEBRATE! EDUCATE! APPRECIATE!!!Another MILESTONE! Another of Debbie's Ditties goes DIGITAL!! If you've heard only one of my original songs for children, its quite possibly: ''You're Wonderful.'' This anthem of self-esteem and affirmation is from my very first recording. It came to life on this planet on a cassette tape!From the cassette it was ...

September. School has barely begun. Before you have a very good grasp of your students, its time to observe September Eleventh. What is an appropriate response to such an event, for children who weren't even born at the time? How do we show respect for the day in an appropriate way?  If you are new to my blog, WELCOME. I have a simple answer to ...

FINE MOTOR FRIDAY, Friday the THIRTEENTH EditionMy ''Little Red'' Wonder Peep's AMAZING Color Exploration: YUP my four year old grand-daughter! WoWzERS!!! It's Friday. Not just any Friday either!  It's FRIDAY the Thirteenth!! I LUV THIRTEEN!! That calls for something special and I had an idea!!  In the weeks since I've started this series, my ...

FINE MOTOR Leads to FINE ARTS!!!  Part 21: The Giraffe Edition!  FRIDAY!!! Oh, Happy FRIDAY, FRIENDS!!! From a bubble wrap print (always a classic: open-ended + ubber successful strategy) to a preschool 'thank you' card following my recent Author Illustrator school visit..... let's really stick our necks out and ...