A few readers had asked me to blog on my entrepreneurial experience so I posted on the history of Aquent and our culture of innovation. We were gearing up for a big office move; we had been at our old office for seventeen years and we needed more space. The old office had four floors…
Top Art & Design Colleges for Undergraduates
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 of…
Video Games for STEM Summer Learning
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 gamed learning? My son is screen-obsessed. It’s not unusual to find him in front of TWO…
Middle School Writing: How to Use the COMMA
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” means but after reading her essay and helping her fix it, I’ve decided that I need to do a four part series…
17+ Wonderful Multicultural Picture Books About Food
My favorite way to learn about other cultures is through food. It can be intimidating to cook a new ethnic cuisine for the first time, so consider this list a menu of sorts to decide if there is anything you want to make at home. What wonderful multicultural picture books about food did I leave…
#KoboGloHD : Read Anywhere Anytime! Giveaway!
I received a Kobo Glo HD to review and it immediately disappeared, snatched up by my kids. We have other eReaders in the house but I had loaded this one with the new Rick Riordan ebook, The Crown of Ptolomy, and more Wonder stories by R. J. Palacio. My son has been waiting for the newest…
Poetry in Sports Books for Kids and the Kid Lit Blog Hop
My son has a poet in residence for fourth grade. For three sessions, he’s learning to write poetry. There are even homework assignments that he agonizes over. He’s had a poetry unit every year — in 2nd grade, he wrote a color poem based on Mary O’Neill, but this is the first year that the poetry seems…