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Some days are not that great. Like day before yesterday. I had spent a great deal of time planning a fun lesson on forces for Z, where we...

Now that most of my crazy work travel is almost done with, I have started the first unit of inquiry with Z- CARS! Through this unit, we...

A key reading strategy that students should have by grade 3 is the ability to order events in a story. We started by sequencing specific...

One of the wondrous things about homeschooling that I did not anticipate was the role that Z's grandparents would play in teaching him...

A teacher from Z's ex-school sent home a glass jar with a caterpillar and instructions on how to care for it. It took a week and a half...

On a school night, Z usually slept by 8:30 pm and was up by 5:45 am. His school bus arrived by 7:10 am and he needed all that time in the...

Z struggled with writing from grade 1 itself. If you see his grade 1 books, its all doodles and scribblling, drawings of fire-breathing...

This picture was taken in June 2025 at the beginning of grade 3. Who would have known that just a month and a half from that day, we...