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We are all products of our environments. This familiar phrase assumes that most of us spent our youth in one neighborhood, one delimited world. But I came of age in between spaces—a white kid with a single mother who filled my life with books and worried about making her salary last the month, and a father with severe mental illness in and out of institutions, I spent my adolescent nights on a rented floor of a two-family house and my days at the private junior high school that had waived my tuition. This boyhood geometry meant that I saw more...

Family Countdown Skates at Flight on Ice December 31, 2022  11:00 am - 12:30 pm 11am-12:30pm Skating Session with Rental Skates & a 12 pm Happy Noon Year’s Eve Celebration Complimentary Mocktail Toast & Party Favors, kids Countdown Video at 12 pm on the Big Screen, Mystery Guest characters on Ice, DJ with great music, and a photo booth to savor the memories. Count Down 2 Noon at The Please Touch MuseumDecember 31st with Celebrations  We have reimagined our New Year’s Eve event this year as we celebrate together for a smaller in-person gathering with limited capacity. Join us for...

New Hampshire is one of the states the kids and I studied back in our first attempts at geography lessons as we studied our way through United States geography. So while I wrote about a few of the individual books we read, I somehow never wrote a summary post of our New Hampshire Unit. So here were are 10 years later finally writing up our New Hampshire unit. Better late than never. (there are affiliate links in here) I love that classic old church steeple picture New Hampshire Unit Resources I started off with a quick search about New Hampshire:...

Disclosure: Samples were provided to me. All opinions stated are genuine and my own. One thing we like to do over the break is make sure the kids' minds stay sharp for school, but not in a way that is intrusive or 'educational' blah blah blah, but rather, a way that is fun for them, will make them laugh and have the learning a million miles a minute without even knowing it's happening. There is a company that specializes in this kind of thing, and that is Mrs. Wordsmith.  Check out her website to see the many excellent academic items available...

As I do at this time every year, I'm taking the week off to ski and play with my kids, shovel snow, and generally not think about work. I have some of the most popular posts of the year scheduled to republish this week. New posts will resume in the new year. Last week I was recording a demo of how to use existing slides to make video lessons when I came across a neat slide template in Canva. That template was for a game called This or That. The game is a simple icebreaker type of game that gets people...