Education and parenting. Helping your child with reading, math, science and getting along with others.
This is a list for my daughter, Grasshopper and Sensei, who wants to go to Art School but does NOT want to be a fine artist. I suspect she will end up doing commercial art, mostly because she dislikes working alone but, on the flip side, is amazing working collaboratively. A Fairly Comprehensive List…
I have been working hard planning my son’s summer and it’s a video game-themed summer but I plan to sneak in math, computer science, art, and reading. He’s 10 years old and will be a rising 5th grader. Why video game learning? My son is screen-obsessed. It’s not unusual to find him in front of…
PickyKidPix asked me to help her edit her English assignment last night. She said that she’s having trouble with sentence fluency which is bringing her grade down. I wasn’t sure what “sentence fluency” meant but after reading her essay and helping her fix it, I’ve decided that I need to do a four-part series to…
My son was obsessed with learning how to fold an Origami Shirukan Throwing Star. He had trouble cutting perfectly square pieces of paper so I handed him My First Origami Kit which I received from a publisher to review. Unfortunately, the book did not include instructions on how to make a Shirukan Throwing Star but the…
My kids have been taking the PARCC standardized test for the new Common Core standards this past month. They do not enjoy standardized tests but the upside is that the elementary school Physical Education teacher opens the gym early on test days and has them play Pickle Ball. He says the research shows that exercise…
Now that the snow is gone after Boston’s Snowmaggedon, I can finally appreciate the cold again so I’m combining some newly published non-fiction science picture books with some videos on the artic. I hope you are ready to face the cold again too! Arctic Tern Two guiding thoughts about the Artic today: protection and eggs….
I wanted to review this book thinking Grasshopper and Sensei would like it, but instead I found it was perfect for me. I used to take a lot of art classes before I had kids. And while I have tried to paint from time to time, even managing to complete a hand painted set of…