Night Prowls
The next night of our rustic camping at a state park in Virginia, the older children and I went on a night prowl with a park ranger. My husband stayed …
The Gift of Thanks
The joy of substituting, every once in a while, you reach someone and help them to understand concepts in review when the teacher leaves work. High school geometry. Multi-step word …
Nature, quiet?!
Friends will ask us how we can camp every summer out in nature where it is so quiet at night. First, I try to explain that with our crew it …
All the Classroom’s a Stage: Third Grade Thespians
Children are natural born actors. Think about it. Aren’t children always looking for an audience? A two-year-old follows you around to give her rendition of “tantrum” or a nine-year-old offers …