That last clause is going to have to be “something from the Chronicles of Narnia,” because I don’t know that we have any blue books! For this post, I interviewed an avid nine-year-old reader (aka my son) who is known for staying up until 11 pm reading a good book. However, he won’t read just
READ MOREIn a recent game of “Let’s chase each other around the house and shriek at the top of our lungs until Mom goes batty,” the four-year-old practically impaled her toe on a chair leg and started screaming. Being the compassionate savages they are, her siblings consoled her by yelling, “Help! Call the librarians! Call the janitor!
READ MOREI love Shakespeare. When my oldest was five she memorized Macbeth’s “Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow” soliloquy just from hearing me quote it so often. But loving it and trying to teach it to kids… well, those are two separate beasts! I knew that before the kids could truly appreciate the Bard, they needed to
READ MOREThe young ‘uns ’round here range in age from baby to grade five, so reading books to everyone can be a challenge. The recommendation that parents read out loud to their kids 20 minutes per day would place me behind a book for almost two hours, which is just not happening. I mean, there’s laundry
READ MOREFractals… Quite honestly, I didn’t have any idea what they were until several books into this unit. I mean, here’s a definition: A fractal is a natural phenomenon or a mathematical set that exhibits a repeating pattern that displays at every scale. It is also known as expanding symmetry or evolving symmetry. If the replication
READ MOREIf I could go back to the me that started homeschooling in 2009, I would give her one piece of advice: Establish a reading corner. However, while the 2009 me knew, in an abstract way, that a reading corner was probably a pretty darn good idea, it wasn’t until seven years later that the idea
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