The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice. When I went to college, my boyfriend informed me that I was provincial. From a province. He was from Queens, New York, and commuted an hour each way to a New York city magnet school. I protested that I was from a…
I’m trying to get back in the swing with Foreign Language exposure again this year. We fell off the wagon last year. We lost our Spanish tutor due to scheduling conflicts and commute distance and we could not squeeze in Chinese with the soccer schedule. Grasshopper and Sensei took Chinese in Middle School again (year…
This fearsome Tyrannosaurus Rex (T. Rex) is the mascot of Boston’s Museum of Science. He (or she) can be seen as you enter the museum and enticed my son down two stories to the dinosaur exhibit. I mean, who can resist a life-size T. Rex? I told my son that scientists have no idea what…
I use these sites to reinforce the Foreign Language curriculum that we either do at home using a tutor or to help my child in middle school who is studying a foreign language. I hope these foreign language sites help your kids too! 100 Chinese Characters Miss Panda Chinese How to Pronounce Mandarin Chinese Memrise…
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Does your child love butterflies? Explore these butterfly books for kids, from the metamorphosis of a caterpillar to nonfiction facts. Butterflies are all colors of the rainbow and exist all over the world, so why not have a multicultural round-up of children’s books as well? We visited the Butterfly Garden exhibit at the Museum of…
My son and I visited the Butterfly Garden exhibit at the Museum of Science in Boston. He missed his third grade school field trip because he had Strep Throat the last week of school so I promised him a make up trip as part of his Camp Mom week. I used to take his older…