I intended to write this blog on Sunday, but chose to take the day off from anything to do with housework or being inside, so we took the kids to feed our cows at the ranch. I appreciated our family time together, but that left all my Sunday to-do’s for Monday which is why you’re […]

The dino obsession hit hard in our house, and we’ve been loving it. I’ll share all the fun things we’ve been doing the past two weeks to encourage play-based learning with Brylee’s new favorite topic. I try to use items we already have around the house, but for this theme I was able to think […]

When I was a public school teacher, I wasn’t a fan of the writing curriculum our district adopted. I didn’t think that it was very engaging or developmentally appropriate for most of my students. It rushed first graders into writing stories about small moments, when most of them were still struggling with letter formation, the […]