The best moment of the day is  the moment when the last light fades from the sky, that moment of suspension before night falls upon us.
Author: Island Mom
Thoughts on the Sea #1
“If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.† Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Phony Document Reading Strategy with Julius Caesar
One of the reading strategies I really enjoy using is called Phony Document, which I’ve taken from the book Content Area Literacy: An Integrated Approach by Thomas W. Bean, John E. Readence, and R. Scott Baldwin. In a nutshell, the teacher creates a document that sounds highly credible and authentic, but it’s entirely made up. […]
For 2013
  May the sun rest on you as you build your castles.  May your fishing rods bend under the weight of your catch. May your […]
Merry Christmas!
Wishing you and yours a Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays. Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â The light now shines in the darkness.
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Christmas 2012 Children’s Books
Last year, I shared with you a few of my favorite children’s Christmas books. This year, I decided to add some of our family’s recent finds to the list. Miscellaneous information here: I just stepped away from my computer for a moment after writing the above, and when I returned, I found that LCB had […]