Blog Review For Little Pencil
What a lovely blog review by a mom and her little one of Little Pencil Finds His Forever Friends ! We are happy that the little one enjoyed the book, […]
Author: Christine
Holy Thirst
Holy Thirst Holy Thirst of souls so dear, Longing Thirst desire here. Thirst of Jesus Crucified, Thirst before my Saviour died. Desert parched can ne’er come near, To that Quenchless […]
Bonnie Fernante Book Review: Little Pencil
Five Thumbs up for Little Pencil! Click here for the review
✏️ Happy National Handwriting Day ✏️
January 23 is National Handwriting Day! What a lovely day it is today for Little Pencil ✏️! National Handwriting Day celebrates the need for good penmanship which starts with a […]
Wait – by Anonymous
Isn’t this poem beautiful? Wait Desperately, helplessly, longingly, I cried: Quietly, patiently, lovingly God replied. I pled and I wept for a clue to my fate, And the Master […]
A Teacher’s Ideas About Cryptocurrencies
Here I am, discussing something that is totally out of my league, I guess. Well to be fair, from 1983 to 1990 I had a career as a small two-bit […]
The Merry-Go Round of Literacy
I just finished commenting on a blog post by someone who makes claims of being a literacy expert. The blog submitting that allowing children to choose their own books gets them […]
California Fails Again
Are we surprised? No! Teaching children to read requires a well-trained teaching staff and the use of a fully vetted direct, systematic, phonetic curriculum. Alex Newman is spot-on in his […]
The Growth Factor
A few years ago, I received a visit from a distraught single mother whose son I had taught years before in kindergarten. In kindergarten her child zoomed into reading, writing […]
Spelling Exercise for Short Vowel Words
I saw a great spelling exercise on Alison Clarke’s Spelfabet blog. Presently, as we teach children to read, we also require them to spell and put the same word in a […]