Summer Reading Challenge
“Mom, read me a story!” These are words I love to hear…most of the time. Though, these days, it seems that my five year old only requests this when I’m in the middle of mopping or folding laundry or changing his brother’s dirty diaper. Reading to children has so many benefits. If you haven’t heard […]
Turkey Time: Telling Time at Thanksgiving
What’s a better way to learn to tell time than with a turkey and some thanksgiving food? Check out these telling time turkey activities that are perfect for school or at home. Telling time with an analog clock is becoming somewhat an archaic thing to teach. While an analog clock is about as common as […]
Core Knowledge: A Teacher and Homeschool Mom’s Perspective
Core Knowledge? I bet your initial thought was Common Core. Let me stop you right there and say I AM NOT TALKING ABOUT COMMON CORE! They have nothing to do with each other. Well, actually they do now, but that is another opinion for another day. What I am talking about is called Core Knowledge. […]
Another Week of Learning
Do you ever have so many ideas in your head, that you can’t decide where to start? Or one idea turns into two which turns into four and just keeps snowballing? That’s where I am with a project I’m doing. I’ve done very well with making small goals, accomplishing them and then moving on to […]
Dietrich Academy is Underway
Teaching is in my blood. A teacher is what I always wanted to be. My mom has written in my Baby Book that at the age of five I wanted to be a teacher when I grew up. I remember when I was in sixth grade, a teacher who lived down the road from us […]