Picture this: It’s 9pm and I’m loading my kids into the van for a surprise trip to see The Wild Robot movie on opening night. Why? Because they’d devoured the book three times and I wanted to create a unforgettable learning moment they’d never forget. Despite nearing midnight that night, all of my children were…
While most people start flooding the area of Lexington and Concord in the Spring, our unit actually originally took us there at the beginning of January. While most of the buildings were closed like the visitors’ center that closes November through March or even some of the historic houses that you can tour, we still…
Honesty first, I was skeptical taking a field trip to the Boston Tea Party Museum. I didn’t know that it would add much value to the kids’ education and I had my doubts that it would be worth our time or money. But in the end, it was fantastic and I plan on going back…
I admit, I threw my hands up in the air and walked away after 13 times my daughter declared that West was actually South. What the heck had I gotten myself into? How did I think I could teach my own child, especially abstract concepts? I knew good and well she was just as stubborn…
Sitting in a local ice cream shop, my kindergartener refused to share her ice cream. She refused to give up even a single bite of her precious treat to her sister. “But she’s a baby. She doesn’t eat sugar yet.” Those words. She was just repeating what she had heard me say far too often…
My oldest is a hands-on girl. Many time she needs to be working with a concept in her hands in order for her mind to fully grasp it. It’s how she’s wired, so when we tackled basic graphing skills, of course, the obvious choice was to make it something that worked her fine motor skills…