Slice of Life Tuesday: Getting the Itch
It’s been about six months since I’ve had any teaching engagements for which I need to prepare. The COVID pandemic wiped out all of my spring and summer opportunities to…
Category: enrichment activities
Key Vocabulary
In any discipline learning the vocabulary is key to understanding. This is true whether its cooking, medicine, mathematics, writing, or even sewing! This week, while while working to finish my…
The Mind of a Crafter
Writing my blog each day takes a fair amount of time. Lately, with the feeling of being spread thin creeping in, I realized that I might need to add some…
Slice of Life Tuesday: Enrichment Learning through Experiential Lessons
When I started Evergreen Garden Club in the fall of 2004, its main purpose was to provide student enrichment through hands-on activities using an outdoor environment such as the school…
Part I: Harvesting our Apples
Today is a day we wait for all year! Today is the day we will pick our apples! We’re a little late this year, by about a week, but the…
Poetry Friday: Nine Eleven Morning Memory
September 11, 2001 You were in my arms, my baby boy, being rocked to sleep as a five day old needs: warm, sleepy, and safe in your loving human cradle.…
Finishing Projects
It is raining and generally miserable outside today, so I decided early that it would be a day to try and finish some projects. Lately, I’ve spent a lot of…
