Simply the Good Life

As they say, variety is the spice of life.  That sentiment also holds true our writings.  Whether you are working your way through my Wr...

  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...

 If you have kids in school, chances are you've already started thinking about college.  Or at least, you've started thinking to ...

We've completed our first full unit of math using an interactive math notebook.  So far, my daughter and I are both enjoying math so m...

Shiver me timbers! Tomorrow is talk like a pirate day.  It's a great day to act silly and have some fun.  It's also a great day to...

There are some times when no matter how you present a lesson, your student just can't see the connection.  One of the tools I use to mak...

The next stop on my list of ways to jazz up our learning this year is at the Stencyl Game Studio.   Stencyl allows users to create their ...

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...

One of my favorite tv shows is NBC's Parenthood.  There are so many times when I burst out laughing because I can totally relate to so...

Even when my children attended traditional public school, it has always been important to me to teach them the things that aren't taug...

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 ...

Most kids aren't too excited to get back to school.  While they may have a favorite subject or two, there are plenty of other less wel...

If you are the parent of a child who goes to school at home, you know what a difference scheduling can make in how smoothly your day flows...

How does your child learn best?  Is he a visual, aural, read/write, or kinesthetic learner?  Perhaps he's a multimodal learner, meanin...

Ready or not, August is here.  All month long I'll be writing posts about what we are doing to be ready for school.  Today's post...