I love writing posts for my own blog here at SquiggleMum, but the blogosphere is a community and I also contribute elsewhere as much as I am able. Community is about giving and not just getting.
As an educator I have always had two loves: music and literacy. I majored in music, but could never bring myself to become a music specialist because I knew it would mean giving up the opportunity to help children fall in love with language! As a mother, it naturally follows that there is much music in my kids’ world.
Last week we received two copies of the same catalogue in the mail. I flipped through the first one, ignored the duplicate and put them both into the recycling. I dredged them back out again though when my daughter asked if she could so some “snipping” with junk mail. While my son napped we had some fun one-on-one time together playing junk mail games.
I’m not precious about stuff. Stuff gets old, stuff gets broken, stuff gets lost. It’s all just stuff. I’m usually quick to say, “Never mind. No big deal…” to the kids when accidents happen. Usually. Not this time. I could have cried.
If you’re a parent with young kids, and you’re interested in raising readers – you’ll definitely want to check this out. Literacy Lava is a FREE publication put together by a bunch of teachers, writers, bloggers and literacy advocates.
If you visit my blog regularly, follow my tweets or read my facebook updates you’ll know I’m a Play School fan. A big one. Yesterday the show opened with regular presenter Matt updating his blog on his laptop before sending a quick text to his co-presenter Karen, grabbing his digital camera and heading to the park!
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