Frequent readers of this blog, know about my love of a good Read Together Book. For those of you who may have just discovered this little corner of the world, I wrote the following about Read Together Books over the summer: You know emergent readers. They are the ones who are so close to reading that they can almost taste […]
Read moreTo use a cliche (something I try not to do but unavoidable here), I can’t help but feel like a broken record on this issue. I am always amazed by how my children mimic my reading behaviors. Sometimes in really subtle ways and then in just, ‘shout it out-I am copying you’ sorts of ways. It […]
Read moreThe other night, all was amazingly quiet upstairs. For a bit I enjoyed the quiet and then I began to wonder what was going on. It was “potion creating-quiet”, “cutting American Girl hair-quiet”, “drawing a mural on the wall-quiet”. So I tip toed upstairs expecting to catch the girls in a crime. Instead, I found them […]
Read moreI hope to raise readers in part so that they can gain the same gifts from reading as I have. There are many, many messages and lessons I’ve learned not from people or from articles but from stories, from fictional accounts of an imaginary person’s life. A few weeks ago, I was reading the novel, […]
Read moreI have written in the past about the value of reading the same books to different aged siblings. Lately though, I am languishing in the beauty of reading separately with the girls. Not only does this give me much needed one on one time with each of them but we have made an important and […]
Read moreWe have an independent book store in town that isn’t quite as quaint as the stock photo above. But it’s an independent bookstore and I believe strongly in frequenting such places. If there is any hope in keeping these stores afloat, those of us who spend way more money on books than we should, need […]
Read moreToday a funeral procession of hundreds of cars passed our school to the see the scene above. May Kelly know how deeply her death has touched this community, always tight knit, now closer. May Kelly’s parents continue to rely on the love that surrounds them today. May the family on whose property this tragedy occurred […]
Read moreThis evening, Katherine asked me a question that she already knew the answer to. I responded but then teasingly said, “Why’d you ask, if you knew!?” Katherine said she wasn’t sure but then Caroline chimed in… She said, “Well teachers ask questions they know the answers to all the time.” Caroline thought nothing of this comment […]
Read moreI usually try to avoid writing ‘non-literacy’ posts back to back but today it can’t be avoided. It can’t be avoided because this blog is not only a professional one but also a blog I use to track important things that happen in the lives of our family. It can’t be avoided because our community […]
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