Author: mymentech

When you are schooling multiple children, finding the right notebook to grade a child’s work can get challenging. Even with just a few kids, the number of notebooks stacked up at the end of the day can be overwhelming. When I can narrow down the potentials by a simple glance of color, I am thrilled.

Reading aloud equips your children with a personal toolbox they’ll use throughout their lives as readers, learners and communicators. In our busy and demanding home school lives, though, making time for this activity can be a challenge.

Reading aloud to preschoolers increases their phonic and grammatical awareness, solidifies their language development and strengthens their reading readiness. What about after that? Is there value to reading aloud to our older children?

In this lesson, we will study the element of art, form—objects having three dimensions. Form is very important in sculptures, since they have depth as well as width and height. In this lesson’s project, we’ll use the elements of art, shape and form to create a sculpture of Pinocchio. First, we’ll draw a preliminary sketch of the shapes and then create the forms in clay.

In a blink of an eye, time passes quickly. Looking back I remember when my oldest was just starting high school. I wondered what that was going to look like. Would I be able to keep up with the new demands? And how would he adapt?