A quick highlight of my week: Wednesday morning I went with another co-worker to observe classes at a nearby middle school. The school serves an underserved community, providing a challenging, above-grade level educational opportunity and continued support at the area’s top high schools and colleges. Besides sitting in classrooms all morning taking notes, we also pulled…
Tag: reading
(story)time: Imaginary Fred by Eoin Colfer + Oliver Jeffers
It’s almost Book Fair time again at Left Bank Books, so mark your calendars for the weekend after next (November 21-22). I’m working on our holiday book list right now, and one of the books on the list for F is this gem. Imaginary Fred is the latest book in a long of line of…
(story)time: Building Our House by Jonathan Bean
I think because we’re a house of architects (and perhaps because we’ve also done a lot of construction on our own house), the girls are frequently given books related to architecture or building. Some of them are really quite good, but we’ve also read some really dry ones – pages with lots of diagrams and terminology…