Team Gray!

I know I said that the Grand Old Duke of York was a favorite last night, but Beehive must be a close second. The babies get so excited about being bees at the end. Stay tuned for more fingerplays from Recipe for Reading!

Kindergartners and First Graders have a lot of coloring to do. I remember when Xay was that age. Those coloring pages just grated on his nerves. He begged off as many crayon assignments as he possibly could. Imani and Joy loved coloring, so they didn’t have the same objections to the Kindergarten and First Grade [...]

My all-time favorite card game is speed. Curtis calls it spastic, and doesn’t like it. The kids will play it with me sometimes, but it is really unsporting; I play pretty fast. Joy is working on the ‘oddball addition facts’ in her Saxon 3 math. The idea is that she already learned all the addition [...]