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This past weekend I read a book I found on someone's reading list on her blog.  The book was Fish in a Tree by Lynda Mullaly Hunt. I loved it.  I'm glad I read it and I want my kids to read it. The book is about a girl named Ally who struggles in school.  She's been in eight schools or so in seven years because her dad serves in the military.  Ally has an older brother, Travis, who has her back.  Their family is a healthy family, but Ally's dad is deployed during the story. This book is a story about not judging a book by its cover.  Ally's MO is to distract whenever a teacher or school administrator asks her to read or write.  Because... Ally has dyslexia.  Over the years, her teachers missed it.  Her brother struggles with dyslexia as well.  Their parents know school is hard for them, but her dad likely had it as well and encouraged his son to compensate for it in auto class. Dyslexia often runs in families.  A few years ...

The grass swallows your paws As you sit Still Not a sound But, I want to see How God made you Hop little limber bunny Hop Walking closer The bunny skitters away Without a Sound

For the past two months, I've been teaching my 2nd-5th grade Sunday school class about the Beattitudes.  I've been using a curriculum, The Kids Travel Guide to the Beattitudes , that I haven't been that happy with, actually.  I had used a previous book in the same series and really liked that one.  But, this one...  it has felt like there's a lot of fluff.  So, I end up taking a few ideas from the book and writing my own lessons each week. Yesterday, I only had a half hour in which I needed to prepare my lesson.  I'd been taking care of my family's needs all day and that was all there was.  I prayed and trusted that the Lord would help me put the pieces together.  One of the pieces came from an unexpected place... A few months ago, I agreed to review a Christian Living book because all of the author's books have been encouraging to me.  The book is The Blessing of Humility by Jerry Bridges.  A few months ago, this man passed away in ...

I'm starting to do some research for my oldest daughter's literature curriculum.  I plan on using a combination of short stories from a literature book and book units.  I've found that there are several sites with free units for high schoolers.  Here they are... Harper Collins Teaching Guides Penguin Teaching Guides Glencoe Teaching Guides Emily Dickinson:  There are a few questions, links to the particular poems (which you can print) and then discuss. Random House has a few, but not many that I'm interested.  I did find this one on The Lord of the Rings Trilogy... you can find it HERE . A Wrinkle in Time guide links on the author's site . (6th grade book), but I noticed that many sites use middle school books in high school as well.