Author Partners with Non-Profit for Fun Family Event A top priority for many parents, librarians and educators is putting more books into the hands of kids, more words into their heads, and more fuel sparking their imaginations. Libraries offer weekend book clubs, teachers give nightly reading assignments, and parents read aloud to their young children [...]

Alice suggested that I post a link to the poem Miss Molly Mop as it appears in Highlights September issue. http://www.highlightskids.com/Magazine/Sept09/h10909_mollyMop.asp Highlights has been a favourite of mine forever; seeing my own work appear within its fun filled pages is always a thrill. You know, as I was writing this I realized that I didn’t include the entire name [...]

The project of the week in my son’s current summer camp is to collect “new and gently used books” for Read To Grow, whose mission is explained in the cover letter as “to provide books to children.” Curious, in the light of Kate’s recent blog about new media and books going online, on phones and [...]

Recapturing childhood electronically

Parents of young children often ask why mathematicians stress pattern recognition and why the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics follows this lead by including pattern recognition in its teaching standards for elementary grades. Pattern recognition is important because it leads children to identify and predict the results of iterative functions. This may sound intimidating, but the [...]

I loved seeing and hearing about Marianne’s new book, ADDverse, a delightful math and poetry  Read-and-See! From patterns to rhymes to the structure of three-dimensional shapes, the material is exactly what my first grade son has been loving and learning since Kindergarten.