Our almost-five-year-old grandson took photos with my camera recently. Among them were a close-up of an old meat grinder and a close-up of one of his favorite snacks, applesauce squeezies. After taking one of those close-ups, he backed up and said that the second photo was "a back ... View Post
“Read!”
One of our grandsons is a sweet four-year-old. To respect the privacy of our grandchildren, I'll call him Mason. When I read to Mason and his three siblings, ranging from age two to nine, interruptions are common. When Mason gets tired of waiting during one of those interruptions, he reminds me to ... View Post
Sharing the Gift of Reading
When my friend Joyce was the wife and mother in a missionary family in Cameroon, she knew women who could not read. Joyce and I became friends in Oxford, Mississippi, where her husband served as our church's preacher and my husband served as its campus minister. Because of her experience in Africa, ... View Post
Read Aloud Time
If you asked Ray or me or any of our children what their favorite parts of homeschooling were, all of us would include family read aloud time. How precious those times were for us. Perhaps many of you do this already, but I haven't mentioned it in a long time and I want to be sure to suggest it for ... View Post
A New Book That Is Close to My Heart
I am excited. Last week I went through proofs for a new children's literature title, Growing Up Dakota. For each of our curriculum sets, we choose 7-12 literature titles that enhance what children learn. This new book goes along with the updated America the Beautiful which we began taking orders for ... View Post
Almanzo and Laura
Wouldn't you love to have been in the room while Almanzo Wilder told his wife Laura Ingalls Wilder the stories she included in Farmer Boy? When Laura published the book in 1933, she was 66 years old and Almanzo was 76. They had been married for 48 years. I imagine that he had been telling her those ... View Post
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