@awmurawski65@MaudMaron I cannot imagine curtailing my daughterโs educational opportunities for anything, least of all points from imaginary readers.
@abysstoabyss Gift of Fear and Why Does He Do That is an excellent double-header. It radically shifted my worldview. I was in education at the time and eesh.
@teachermother1 I am knitting gnome hats for the entire family because the baby of the family is basically a garden gnome at this point. We think the pointy hat will carry expository weight in the neighborhood. Setting the stage for kid handwork, of course.
Thereโs a monstrosity of a dinosaur inflatable sprinkler kiddie pool that got us through two years of pandemic in a similar age range. Puffin Rock and Baby Signing Time for novel screen time. Jan Brett, Patricia Polacco, Jon Klassen/Mac Barnett, or Mo Willems picture book retrospective time? Hopefully the library can still provide holds.
Ah, this sucks and I am sorry. My best cat refused fluids for kidney issues. I should have called it before I did. Have the right picture books on hand for the kids and do the thing.(Secular: The Tenth Good Thing About Barney; Christian: Cat Heaven by Cynthia Rylant, but is cat heaven really that big of an ask from the non-believers?)
Inside me are two homeschooling wolves:
One wants to buy Beautiful Feetโs World Geography curriculum of beautiful picture books.
The other wants to teach map skills through a close listening of Crackerโs Euro Trash Girl.