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Mother of Pearl Open the Book

by beth February 23, 2010

If you are a stu­dent, pay­ing for a course, please for the love of all that is holy in this world open the book.  Open it at least once, even if just to look at the pic­tures.  The pic­tures are bright & col­or­ful.  Even if your instruc­tor is not.  You paid for the book, open it. […]

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Learning to Read

by beth February 4, 2010

Mamacita and Mr G. are both learn­ing to read. Mr. G is learn­ing to rec­og­nize words. While Mamacita is in the ear­lier stages of “read­ing” a book, mean­ing she looks at the pic­tures & tries to tell a story based on the pic­tures in the book. She’s try­ing to under­stand the under­ly­ing mean­ings to words, […]

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Glad Monster, Sad Monster

by beth January 20, 2010

One of our favoritest (Yes, that is a word. Why? Because I say it is) books in the whole wide world is Glad Mon­ster, Sad Mon­ster: A Book About Feel­ings. It’s by Ed Ember­ley & Anne Miranda. We were intro­duced to it through the preschool the chil­dren have attended. The preschool uses it as part […]

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3 for 3 Friday

by beth August 14, 2009

Read­ing: Mama, PhD: Women Write About Moth­er­hood and Aca­d­e­mic Life it was the book I got at the con­fer­ence, they also have a Mama, PhD blog. I have heard and read oth­ers talk­ing about the book & it seemed like it would be right up my alley. It’s a col­lec­tion of essay reflec­tions on academic […]

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