Implications of academic redshirting
I just realized that there is another advantage to redshirting kindergartners--the practice of delaying the start of first grade by one year either by enrolling a child in an extra year of preschool or an extra year of kindergarten. The rationale given is that the child will be bigger and more ...

Random Stuff of Our Week
My intern Jeremiah and I had the opportunity to go to the Boys and Girls Club this week and read books to the kids. They are having a read-a-thon. It was fun to see several of "my kids" who attend there and they were very excited to see us. Jeremiah works in a kindergarten classroom back in Iow ...


metamorphosis
I often have a hard time trying to recall my first childhood memory. Some people can recollect every exact detail about that very first memory– what they were wearing what words were spoken who they were with or what the weather was like that fateful day. They can recall looking up into their ...

Uncloistering
After doing this whole library thing for a week I've fallen into the routine of it. They say it takes 30 days to fall into a habit so I'm just excited to have gotten to the routine part. It helps to have it all written down in neat little paper boxes in my planner. It helps to look at it and kn ...

That's kind of exciting!
Well it is! Are you arguing with me?! Seriously?Ok. I am done being silly. I am going to blame it on all that totally cool thunder we are getting today! I always get in a goofy mood when there is a thunder storm and the better the storm well the goofier I get. It seems to stir something up in m ...