Super Rachel Zana's Spot

I recently purchased My Very First Art Book by Usborne Publishers, along with 365 Things to Draw and Paint by Fionna Watt.  The art projects in both books are the kind of open ended projects that I love to have the kidlets working on, and they are presented in an…

The name of that southern state, with its collection of i’s and double s’s and double p’s, is such a great spelling milestone.  Who hasn’t learned to spell it before really understanding how spelling works?  The sound of those double letters is so mesmerizing. Earlier this week Mr. SP came…

She was deep in thought, looking at her large stack of library books waiting to be checked out and brought home during a visit to our branch library last week.  A stack of books . . . so many possibilities.

Because performing is always stressful for me as a musician, and for many of my students, I’ve been wanting for quite some time to try having a performance party where students would come and play for each other without any parents or other grown ups around.  A few weeks ago…

This, my friends, is drumming.  Wild and crazy drumming perhaps only surpassed by Jim Henson’s Muppets.  Only noisier.  While they were drumming they were singing “Strangers in the Night,” but with their own crazy melody.  “Strangers in the Night” is a family joke because my husband and I don’t travel…

The wind storm that blew all those magnificent waves onto the rocks a few weeks ago left some amazing ice structures behind.  We were down at the rocky beach last Monday evening and enjoyed seeing which rocks were covered in ice and which were not, and perhaps the most magnificent…

He had been eyeing this ball of thick green yarn for a long time, and one day someone left it JUST within reach.  He had a lot of fun, a lot of slobbery, squealing fun. P.S.  He started to scoot yesterday.  No small piece of paper on the floor is…

Last week Squirmy cut his first two pearly teeth, and not even two days later, Mr. SP lost his very first tooth.  Dr. Peds pulled it out Friday evening because the big kid tooth was already making an appearance behind it.   The tooth fairy visited and brought two quarters…

I teach three year old Sunday School.  It is a riot.  I’m pretty sure it’s the most fun you could possibly have on a Sunday morning.  There are a lot of vibrant personalities in my class, and yesterday morning, my most matter of fact, clearly spoken Sunday School student was…

The kidlets are constantly building tents everywhere, out of all sorts of scavenged materials.  When I was teaching piano lessons on Thursday, Dr. Peds set up the real outdoor camping tent (a small version perfect for kids) that Auntie Dot gave us a few years ago when she discovered that…