Learning Curves Category

In retrospect, it all could have been avoided if I’d just listened to my husband. The accidents. The hit or miss. The unmotivated 2 year old. The quitting. Etc, etc, etc. The upshot of it is that I called my sister in law and asked her how she potty trained her girls–before 2. She said [...]

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 [...]

New Math Game: Score!

In: Learning Curves

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 [...]