Dear ones, Guess who has a new keyboard on her laptop with a working space bar and question mark? And a shiny, new hard drive?? Oh, yeah, baby. I’m back at it, girls! I started this “Currently” post on my phone. What a nightmare. Editing that mess now and throwing some pics in here […]
31 Days of Children’s Books, Day 23
Hello, gentle readers, I originally wrote this post as a part of my 2015 “Summer Slide” series. The summer slide is the two+ months of academic knowledge lost by school age children during summer vacation. [source] The greatest losses are in the area of mathematical computation among all students and in math and reading among […]
Help YOUR Kids Beat the Summer Slide 2016: Great Books to Share, #3
Dear readers, I ask you where has this summer gone? I had so much planned. Didn’t you? I need another month to finish the books I committed to reading. Thought I would catch up on my scrapbooking. All six years that I am behind. My mosaic, yeah, haven’t touched it. What did I do with […]
Help YOUR Kids Beat the Summer Slide 2016: Great Books to Share, #2
Dear readers, Writing this edition of my “Summer Slide” series from Gate C30 at DFW airport. PC and I have a three-hour layover on our way to Ohio so I thought I would use my time to catch up on some overdue blogging. The airport feels electrified as news has just broken of the terrorist […]
Help YOUR Kids Beat the Summer Slide 2016: Great Books to Share
Dearest Readers, Welcome to the first post of this second year of my “Summer Slide” series. The ‘summer slide’ is the two+ months of academic knowledge lost by school age children during summer vacation. [source] The greatest losses are in the area of mathematical computation among all students and in math and reading among children […]
First Monday’s Month in Review: Rewind October in Numbers
Hey Gals! Hope you won’t notice that today is Tuesday, in fact, if I don’t type fast it will soon be Wednesday (didn’t type fast enough because it is Wednesday now!) but either way, not the first Monday of the month at all. I know my secret is safe with you, though. We are talking […]