Two Saturdays ago was a day of great deals! I started my morning off with Shade Clothing‘s half yearly sale at 8:00. I’m a tall woman (6’2″) and I need longer shirts than are sold in most stores. Shade has long shirts in beautiful colors that fit like they were made just for me. (The [...]
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I really have a hard time decorating my house because I have all these ideas, but when I have the money to get everything I freeze up or change my mind. For example, we just sold a piece of furniture and all this time I’ve been wanting to sell that thing and use the money [...]
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At the last library book sale I bought a children’s book by Alison Jay, my favorite illustrator, called Picture This. It’s a simple book with a picture and a single word on each page, for very young children. I love this book because of the beautiful artwork, and as I was reading it to my [...]
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Reading Series Part I: Reading TO Children Reading Series Part II: Reading WITH Children Reading BY Children This stage of reading development comes after your child is a successful and frequent reader. Set a time once a day or week that you sit down as a family and have a family reading time or let [...]
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I am not an animal lover by any means, but I do like children’s books about animals, especially books about animal sounds or how animals live and behave. Hello, Hello!, written by Miriam Schlein and illustrated by Daniel Kirk, is a great book that teaches how different animals greet each other. Learn how lions, polar [...]
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Reading Series Part I: Reading TO Children Reading Series Part III: Reading BY Children Reading WITH Children As a child is learning to read, reading to him is still vital but reading with him is also essential. Take turns and listen to each other read. A benefit of reading together is that you’re able to [...]
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Reading Series Part II: Reading WITH Children Reading Series Part III: Reading BY Children Last summer our family went to a lecture by Dr. Brad Wilcox at our library to learn about reading. He taught us some really interesting things about why reading to kids is important and also how to get kids to enjoy [...]
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The other night I was at my monthly dinner group and a few friends were talking about goodreads.com. Apparently there is a website where you can open an account and invite friends and share book recommendations. Have you ever heard of a more brilliant idea?!? As soon as I got home I signed up and [...]
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Radio West is a radio talk show that I sometimes listen to while I’m out and about, and on Wednesday (1/30) they had writer Caleb Crain on to talk about an article he wrote for the New Yorker Magazine on literacy and books. I only caught the last 15 minutes or so of the interview [...]
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This is a great lift-the-flap book by Durga Bernhard called In the Fiddle Is a Song that talks about how things often have hidden potential, and that almost everything has the opportunity to become something different and better. This book teaches that everything great started out as something small and normal, a great lesson for [...]
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