Enthusiastic, warm and a keen observer of educational trends, Mrs. Siebert distills 37 years of primary level teaching into a compact volume filled with fresh teaching hints, parenting advice, as well as funny and poignant stories from her deep well of experience. Her goal in classroom management was to provide her students with an emotionally safe place to open their wings and fly, setting the stage for firefly magical moments each and every day. By consistently reinforcing reasonable limits for this creative fly zone, her students excelled in attaining that all-important first foot up in their educational experience. She shares her eclectic, yet practical, methods of reaching every child at her level of development, and taking them as a consolidated group towards that first graduation - Kindergarten -- to first grade. For her teaching was not a job, but an art of the heart. Techniques which came naturally to Mrs. Siebert have been shared with, and emulated by other educators. Thousands of students have been the benefactors of her loving concern. Now, she shares these same insights with you.