Simply the Good Life

  The idea for this post was originally going to be a Mid-week Morsel.  However, once I started gathering resources and putting it all tog...

As I continued my search this summer for ways to make school more fun, I set out to find a way to motivate my reluctant writer.  After num...

I'm ending back-to-school month with a bang!  With the help of my wonderful dad, I've been working hard to get some more of the ...

How important is summer reading to your child's education?  Very.  According to literacy expert  Julie M. Wood, Ed.D., "The few m...

The Bright Ideas Company is a project my husband and I started in 2007 as a way to share the teaching aids I created for our daughter. ...

Although Reading Month is coming to an end, that doesn't mean it's time to stop reading.  Quite the opposite, actually.  This week...

As I've mentioned already, March is reading month.  The first step in reading is learning to recognize each letter and the sounds it ...

As I mentioned in my previous post, A Seusserful Day! , March is National Reading Month.  Dyslexia is a learning disability often overlo...

"It's [the] Day of all Days!  It's the Best of the Best!  So don't waste a minute!  Hop to it!  Get dressed!"  Today...