You know that my camera broke. It’s being repaired, but I bought another one in the meantime. I’ve been wanting a nice camera, and I finally have one! I am so excited! Anyway, during those weeks of having no camera at all, I remembered an old but usable digital camera we’d bought about six years […]
Salt Dough Map of Alabama
Somehow I managed to get through my childhood without ever making a salt dough map. Or if I did make one, it made so little impression on me that I don’t remember it at all. Well, not wanting to repeat that travesty with Sprite, we made a salt dough map this week! It was quite […]
A Packet from the White House
A few months ago Sprite wrote a letter to President Bush. I told her that he would return her letter, but she was very suspicious. After all, how can the president take the time to respond to a nine year old girl, a girl who doesn’t even LIVE in America? When the weeks passed, she […]
Spelling Creatively
My wonderfully creative Sprite is not a strong speller. We have lots of family jokes about her spelling fiascos such as “You are the beast dad.” She takes it in stride. She realizes she has other strengths. Now that she’s in 3rd grade, I thought I should get a bit more serious about spelling though, […]
Jamestown and Shakespeare Connections
Did you know that the Sea Adventure, heading to Jamestown in the early 1600s was shipwrecked in the Caribbean? Months later the stranded colonists successfully sailed to Jamestown in two boats they constructed! They were just in time to save the dying colony. That amazing story returned to England and inspired Shakespeare’s The Tempest! (Guess […]