One of my favorite family traditions growing up in Virginia was going camping at Douthat State Park. We always started the day with a big breakfast to have lots of energy for swimming and exploring. You knew it was going to be a great morning when you woke up to the grown ups cooking pancakes […]

As an educator, I love hearing about what my students do over the weekends and breaks from the classroom. Enrichment opportunities such as gardening, exploring the outdoors, cooking, baking, and home experiments all help to form a student’s knowledge of their world. Oftentimes during my lessons at school a student will chip in with their […]

If there’s one thing that kids love to do it’s collect! Whether it’s toys, sticks, feathers, rocks, or dead beetles (maybe that last one was just me!). Sometimes these collections make sense to us as parents, and sometimes they don’t – but that’s the beauty of collecting!    One of my most prized possessions even […]