My friend Alicia, an amazing and inspiring homeschool Mom and published poet, is offering a free 10-week online course called Poetry For Kids. You can find this first week’s lesson and suggested activities here. This week’s lesson is focused on cliches, and trying to find fresh ways of saying things / evoking imagery in one’s [...]
The boys and I have been working our way through the simply fabulous list of “living math books” from Julie Brennen, who runs the LivingMathForum e-mail group. You can find the list of books, organized by topic (addition, fractions, geometry, etc.) here. And what is a “living book” you may ask? A “living” book is [...]
It was World Poetry Day recently (March 21), and my friend Alicia wrote up some fun ways to celebrate. Both she and my friend Tiffany reported “Dice poetry” being a big hit with their kids, so I thought we’d give it a go this morning as well. I went first, picking a topic I love [...]
Last night we watched the opening ceremonies of the Winter Olympics in Vancouver with our boys. Overall, I thought it was very well done. It showed the diversity of people, language, culture and landscape that it is Canada—and the underlying respect, gratitude, tolerance and quiet pride many of us feel who live here. Not that [...]
Here’s one of my favourite poems from my childhood. I read it to Gareth today in honour of his birthday. Being Five by Dennis Lee (in _Garbage Delight_) I’m not exactly big, And I’m not exactly little, But being Five is best of all Because it’s in the middle. A person likes to ride his [...]