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Kitties!!!!!!!!!

It’s been a while since I updated y’all about Ivory.  Well, she has a little sister now.  Gidgette is your standard domestic shorthair with tabby markings.  She weighed 380 grams (.84 pounds) when I first got her, and she’s up to 755 grams (1.7 pounds) three weeks later.
Ivory is a very good Mamma cat.  She [...]

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A Sense of Humor

So I was in my Sha Sha class a couple weeks ago.  I was passing out the books, and as usual, I was butchering the names of the kids.  The kids who aren’t in the bilingual or the English imersion program don’t get English names, hence the butchering of their Korean names.
One of the kids [...]

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Classic Tales

One of my favorite series to use for teaching reading is Classic Tales by Oxford University Press.  They are well written and illustrated.  They are nicely leveled and reinforce vocabulary.  There is a cassette tape and adtivity book for each title.  They are fairly short, 18 pages of story text with a similarly sized activity [...]

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