If you’ve been around me long enough, you know I’m not much on doing one curriculum exclusively.  You can read all my “excuses” in previous posts.  Truth be told, though, there are so many good and fun things out there, that I can’t bear to pass up many of them!  Hence, the reason I do a [...]

Michele has given me the Blogger Reflection Award.  What an honor!  Thank you, Michelle.  After reading about what this award is supposed to mean, it made me feel very special to think that someone appreciates my blog that much.

Go here to find out about the award.
I’m supposed to bestow this award on five other bloggers [...]

Here’s a look at our first-ever mini offices.  Mahayla made her own.  I made Caleb’s.  He is very excited about these, which was quite a shocker to me.  I expected Mahayla to be the excited one as she loves this sort of thing.
I wrote a post earlier with links to pictures and print-offs for mini [...]

Some background first…..When Mahayla was in Kindergarten, we started with Horizons Math.  We continued with Horizons through 3rd grade, but used it loosely.  What I mean by that is I usually only bought one of the two workbooks and never bought the Teacher’s Guide.  Two or three days a week, we would do one workbook [...]

This is the title of a workshop taught by Tina Burnell that I attended at the CHEK Convention.
Let me first start by saying, Duh!!  I have a master’s degree in education.  I’ve studied in depth about teaching reading.  I’ve studied in depth about reaching various learning styles.  I’ve known for many years that my son [...]