Hello Everyone:

I have not been on for awhile!  Way too busy with a teenager.  Well,  I sadly closed my preschool Little Scholars Academy last May.  However, a new opportunity became available that allowed me to open up an engineering preschool!  My new preschool is STEM Explorers!  STEM mean Science, Technology, Engineering and Math education!  My preschool will be ready to open in September of 2015!

Last summer's book club was great and we heard from the Bean Trees author.  We only have two more years of book club because the girls will all be off to college.  What a fabulous experience every summer for myself as well as the girls!  

Well, I will keep you all up-to-date on the preschool and look forward to this year's summer book club!

Summer Book Club 2014!!!!

Wow - I haven't been on here for awhile - been busy with my preschool and a teenager's schedule. Last summer we read The Hunger Games and The Great Gatsby!  Two great books and the we also played a mystery dinner game which was fun.  At the end of the summer we watched "The Great Gatsby" with Leonardo DiCaprio and the students loved it!  The summer was busy for us and some of the students because we had overseas trips planned. But we were still able to work in our summer reading as planned.  This summer we will read "The Bean Trees" and "The Secret Life of Bees".  Both great books!  We usually choose from the list of books that the girls will be reading for their summer reading assignments.  One of our visits will be the Arboretum to study bees:)  We start June 10th so we are anxious to get going.  Writing to the authors like we always do and hoping to hear back from them soon!  Blog soon...

Hunger Games -

 This summer the students voted on reading the Hunger Games!  We are very excited!  The girls just graduated from 8th grade and looking forward to High School.  I think this is the perfect time to read Hunger Games.  I will keep you posted on the activities and events we plan as our reading continues.  Book club starts today!  We have written to Ms. Collins and hoping to hear from her!  Have a wonderful week!

Hello All,

Well were are ending our book on Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children and next week we planned a Murder Mystery Lunch during book club.  In between talking about the end of the book and solving a crime.  Of course there will be snacks and games to play - games they played in 1959?? Simultaneously, we will be starting our next book "The Line" by Teri Hall.  We have contacted Ms. Hall and she has written back!  We will keep Ms. Hall abreast of our reading and activities as we travel through the book and understand each character and discuss "What would we do if it happened to us?"  By the way nice curriculum Ms. Hall!!!  Have a great day!

Summer Book club 2012 Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children

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Well, the girls are loving Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children and so am I!  I find the independence of this boy in the book, to keep exploring, is amazing.  I myself would leave the island as soon a I landed! Today we are painting some mini chests to represent the trunk where Jacob found the odd and vintage pictures.  We will also be writing our own mini-lite mystery story, (mini-lite) is a word Natalie made up to mean a paragraph or two mystery in which the mystery is also solved.  Challenging!!

Summer 2012 Bookclub

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The summer book club this year is:  Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children.  Wow the students are very intrigued so far!  We just had the our first meeting by reading about the author and reviewing the first Chapter!  I have made an attempt to contact Mr. Riggs to get some ideas for some events or activities for the students.  We will see.  That's all for now.  I know one activity they will probably do is sketching!  We also sketched when we reviewed "The Invention of Hugo Cabret" and the students loved it!  I may say they did a very nice job too!  I may post some sketches later...  Well that's all for now, we will talk later as the weeks go by...

New Summer Book club coming for 8th grade!  I will let you know what adventures are forthcoming!  Talk soon!  A Happy Birthday to my mom!