My girls began hearing chapter books at very young ages. While I love picture books, I also love the stories and characters that develop in longer text so I found myself turning to chapter books as a supplement to the girl’s picture book diet pretty early on. Knowing also that children’s listening levels and reading […]
Read moreThe latest edition of Literacy Lava is out today! Click here to read my contribution.
Read moreToday was the Ridgewood Memorial Day Run. The 5K was a three generation race with Rob, Rob’s dad and Caroline all running. Caroline improved her time last year by 6 minutes finishing in twenty nine minutes and forty seven seconds. She placed sixth in her 9 and under age group. Quite an exciting accomplishment. After a […]
Read moreToday we drove for a total of five hours for a two hour lunch. We were on four highways and a few back roads. Normally, on Memorial Day weekend, this would be the stuff for complaints but not today. We drove to Old Saybrook, CT to celebrate a 70th wedding anniversary. And no, that is not […]
Read moreGrowing up, I had a piano teacher named Mr. Cooper. He was definitely the coolest dude I knew. We played show tunes and easy listening tunes and Christmas carols with the occasional piece of classical music thrown in for good measure. Fast foward to the present and we’ve had a piano sitting in our house […]
Read moreSo maintaining two blogs does not seem to be working. Instead of writing twice as much, I am not writing at all. Rob and I were away last week, and this picture was hanging in our room… And I thought to myself that in order to make boring art, one must first make art. When […]
Read moreI’m really not sure what part of this picture I love more… Caroline is reading her book before she even gets out of bed for the day. And Katherine loves her ‘sissy’ so much these days that instead of getting up and starting her day, she is watching Caroline read. Now that’s a lot of […]
Read moreI have never gotten too terribly excited about poetry. But thanks to my girls and Gotta Book, I seem to be embracing poetry month this year. Each day a great poem is landing in my in box and with it links to lots of other great poetry related wonders. This weekend, for example, the girls […]
Read moreI found inspiration to come back from my long and unannounced blog vacation thanks to one of my fellow kid lit bloggers, Gregory K. at GottaBook. He is hosting the 2011 edition of 30 Poets/30 Days in which he will feature a previously unpublished poem (or two!) each day for the month of April. I can’t […]
Read moreIn a blog post, last week I talked about the power of inspiring instead of entertaining our children. Amazingly, this weekend, my girls put my words into action. And I did nothing to set this up. We always have paper available. We always have markers available. And we always have magnifying glasses available. That was […]
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