Please welcome Erica from What Do We Do All Day?, a blog that always inspires me. There’s a big push now for non-fiction in the Common Core Curriculum and I am afraid that if we, as parents, don’t introduce non-fiction books to our kids that enchant them, they could be turned off by the onslaught…
Please welcome my guest blogger, elementary school teacher AND children’s book author, Susan Stephenson of The Book Chook. I’ve been enjoying her blog for a while now and I’m really excited to have her explain a great website where kids can create stories from pictures. I’m hoping this will get my kids excited to write this summer!…
PickyKidPix wants to trade stocks this summer using the stock account that her grandmother set up for her AND her own money. Too bad I forgot the password. It might be faster for me to transfer her account to my brokerage account than to actually figure it out! I tried to sign us both up…
I should title this post: Books I Am Forced to Buy But That’s OK Because It Will Be My Kids’ Summer Reading I used these great sources to search for books that might win awards next year but also that I think my kids would like. My son, a rising 3rd grader likes humor, math-y and…
Go back in time and learn important history with these American Revolution books for kids! Includes picture books and chapter books. To go with our field trip on the Boston Freedom Trail, I’ve found American Revolution books for kids of different ages. More importantly, they share different perspectives. You’ll meet a silversmith apprentice, a Tory…
Can you believe that I have not chaperoned a field trip for PickyKidPix since she was in Kindergarten?! And now she is about to graduate from 5th grade to start Middle School! I had two choices, The Museum of Fine Arts and The Freedom Trail so I asked my daughter to choose and she asked…
It took me years before I decided I was worth it. Carving out time for myself felt selfish and decadent. I started slowly when my youngest started preschool with resuming exercise after nearly a decade of doing nothing. At first I had to justify exercise. It was for my health. It made me a better…