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tchrsleuth t1_j1ywce9 wrote

Hi, fellow teacher (& Reading Specialist) here! 🙋🏻‍♀️ You are def. on the right track. 🙌🏽 Below I’ve listed 3 places, all in Carytown, that I think you should def. pop into:

1.) bbgb books: a bona fide bookstore for young & young at heart: https://www.bbgbbooks.com

2.) World of Mirth: hard to put into a single category; some might call it a toy shop, but it’s so much more: Toys for kids of all ages https://worldofmirth.com/

3.) Ten Thousand Villages: an eclectic and cool gift shop where part of the purchase/proceeds go right back to the countries where people made the items: https://www.tenthousandvillages.com/richmond

P.S. A 4th place: The local Dollar Tree might be a fun spot to run in & check out the latest wares! When I personally lived out of the US & would come home to visit for a week or so, I would always go into a Dollar Tree store & shop for my students! Things I couldn’t get off of the mainland.
Hope this helps! Enjoy your time here! ❤️

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Johoku OP t1_j1yzfwu wrote

Thank you, dearly. For your knowledge, I’m handling both a visit with mom in the hospital while also thinking about what can help facilitate conversation back home.

Some of my favorite previously purchased products are as follows, with some changes due to present availability:

Eeboo story cards (not necessarily sequenced)

What do I do? / What’s going on here? cards

Purchase at World of Mirth or somewhere similar four years ago

I picked up the What up, Adam? question card expansion at World of Mirth last Friday

And make liberal use of Story Corps question batteries, some applications of Storymatic’s cards but “played” like a variation of Apples to Apples or Once upon a time, and for out and out word games (not conversations) I love Wavelength and Codenames. It can’t be “on rails,” so while I appreciate the ideas behind CAH it’s not as generative as Apples to Apples simple or “lawyer” rules, such as the poison apple variant

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Johoku OP t1_j1zv0xm wrote

Hi, BBGB is indeed the place I had seen that I was searching for!

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