Read. Write. Thrive!

My first grade teacher, Miss Mary Bodi, spent a lot of time bringing out the writer in  her students. Regularly throughout the year, she asked us to choose a picture from a file. In it were magazine advertisements, clipped comics, and other images she’d collected.
One-by-one, were called to sit next to her at a table [...]

“…don’t you like to write letters? I do because it’s such a swell way to keep from working and yet feel you’ve done something.”  ~Ernest Hemingway
In this month’s issue of Family Fun magazine is a letter from a woman who prompted her son’s interest in writing by encouraging him to write to his favorite baseball [...]

No more pencils
No more books
No more teacher’s dirty looks
So goes the chorus of Alice Cooper’s anthem, School’s Out, that gets ample airplay each June.
I am A-OK with doing away with the teacher’s dirty looks, but I’m a firm believer that the books and pencils should not be discarded just because school is on hiatus. . . [...]

When my middle child was in kindergarten, I stumbled upon an excellent and inexpensive resource for home study of reading and writing that we were able to put to work in the summer months. You may want to do the same.
Starfall Education, a home-education supplier, sells Reading and Writing Journals and a set of Cut Up and Take [...]