Education and parenting. Helping your child with reading, math, science and getting along with others.
Learn how to explain the history of enslavement to kids with these children’s books about slavery, from the Underground Railroad to Frederick Douglas. “It [Enslavement] is such a major part of American history, but it gets glossed over. I mean, the foundation of our early economy was based on slavery, and that’s missing,” Berry said….
Thank goodness a shipment of K’NEX came this past week. We are trying to cut back on screens for Screen Free Week and my biggest challenge is my 8-year-old son who likes to simultaneously play video games on the computer while watching TV and eating a snack. I need more screen-free week ideas! I met…
With 11.7 million YouTube views, you must see this performance by Jake Shimabukuro, a ukulele virtuoso known for his complex fingerwork. Be sure to watch the last minute where Jake plays a pretty incredible sequence. My husband found Jake on YouTube and my kids loved watching him play, especially my son who plays the guitar. My…
PickyKidPix‘s 3rd grade dream came true recently. Her third grade poetry unit produced this poem which articulated her dreams that were unbeknownst to us, her parents. It’s funny how all her dreams are contained in this poem about herself. In the past two years, PickyKidPix went from the first travel soccer team to the third…
April as National Poetry Month has hit our elementary school. Both my kids have been hard at work composing poems at school. My son’s 2nd grade poetry unit did not require rhyming and it was modeled after color poems by Mary O’Neill. Poetry gets more challenging in 5th grade as I discovered in our recent…
Create a spine poem using picture books to celebrate National Poetry Month and post at 100 Scope Notes Spine Poetry Gallery!
Jonathan Antoine is the next Pavarotti of our generation. Watch him with his friend Charlotte on Britain’s Got Talent.