K is for Kumon
If aspirational mom-me of 2008 had met actual mom-me of 2017 she’d be pretty horrified about the whole Kumon thing. …
Tag Archives: Grade One
I Can Read Beginner Books
I am Sam. Sam I am. He doesn’t like Green Eggs and Ham. Until (spoiler alert #1) he finally tries them. …
Happy Franco-Ontarian Day!
I’ve mentioned here before that my husband is francophone and our daughters go to French school. On Friday, my eldest – …
French Summer Reading with Disney
I’ve written a few times about how our kids are going to French school because my husband is francophone. I’ve …
Working Mother Week Off
I’m currently mid-way through my two-week summer holiday. Last week, we went spent a relaxing week in Collingwood with my parents and my …
Summer Thankful Drive By
It’s been a long while since I’ve posted a Thankful List. For a while I did it weekly as it really …
Like a Circus
When I was in Grade Six we had to do a public speaking assignment on who we’d want to be, …
Remembering Jean Eileen
This is Jean Eileen: I obviously never met her. But I remember her because her sister, my grandmother Betty, made …
#FamilyLiteracyDay Reflections
Tomorrow is Family Literacy Day in Canada and the former Frontier College volunteer and all round book lover in me can’t …
Grade One Homework
At the end of September I wrote an exasperated post about working parent life and the … role the addition of nightly homework …
Baby Gates Down 