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January 2023
Martin Luther King Jr. Day (1/30/23)
Are Proper Adjectives Even a Real Thing? (1/23/23)
Directed Writing Approach for teaching persuasive writing (1/16/2023)
Second Semester Cottage Class Openings! (Monday Mini Mail) 1/9/23
Most popular of 2022! (Monday Mini Mail) 1/2/23
December 2022
Three ways for kids to say thank-you! (Monday Mini Mail) 12/27/22
November 2022
What do you recommend? (Monday Mini Mail) 11/28/22
Do you want to light up the sky? Or lighten your load? (Monday Mini Mail) 11/21/28
Our first year of homeschooling—goals for my little sister (Monday Mini Mail) 11/14/22
Homeschooling 38 years ago (home visits, legal actions, and more) (Monday Mini Mail) 11/7/22
October 2022
Homeschool 38 years ago! (Monday Mini Mail) 10/31/22
About “the base” AND “the opener” (Monday Mini Mail) 10/24/22
It’s all about that base, ‘bout that base—no opener! (Monday Mini Mail) 10/17/22
Not that many! (And a freebie! Monday Mini Mail) 10/10/22
How We Spend Our Days (Monday Mini Mail) 10/3/22
September 2022
Just Some Highlights (Monday Mini Mail) 9/26/22
How do you use “sticky notes”? (Monday Mini Mail) 9/19/22
It’s no big deal! (Monday Not-So-Mini Mail) 9/12/22
Are Proper Adjectives Even a Real Thing? (Monday Mini Mail) 9/5/22
August 2022
Do you want some sure-fire homophone tricks? (Monday Mini Mail) 8/29/22
Say this to your middle schooler! (Monday Mini Mail) 8/22/22
What “determines” the X number of parts of speech? (MMM—Order of Parts of Speech) 8/8/22
Do coordinating conjunctions coordinate or join? (Parts of Speech Order—Monday Mini Mail) 8/1/22
July 2022
Let me interject something here…. (Monday Mini Mail: Parts of Speech Order Series) 7/25/22
Do you use bugs or planes or reindeer or angels? (MMM—Parts of Speech Order Series) 7/18/22
Independence or Independance Day? 7/4/2022
June 2022
PRO means FOR…Pronouns are FOR nouns! 6/27/2022
Let’s RUN, SKIP, HOP, SPRINT over to learn about verbs! 6/20/2022
So… How do you feel about nouns? 6/13/2022
Is there a method to my madness? 6/6/2022 (Introducing Parts of Speech Series)
May 2022
How do you know that is a sentence? 5/26/2022
CS on the left; CS on the right….5/16/2022
Mother’s Day Punctuation 5/9/2022
The airplane flew ___ the clouds 5/2/2022
April 2022
I’ve got the answer! 4/25/2022
If you can spell the left and you can spell the right—you can spell the word! 4/18/2022
If you have one great trick, you’re GOOD to GO! 4/11/2022
March 2022
Your paragraph topics can’t be “volcanoes, volcanoes, volcanoes” 3/28/2022
You’re Not That Cute! 3/21/2022
You’re not that cute! 3/21/2022
To whom? From where? Over what? 3/7/2022
February 2022
Is that an IT or a THEY? 2/24/2022
Presidents Day or Presidents’ Day? 2/21/2022
A Valentine’s Day riddle for you 2/14/2022
THE perfect solution to its vs. it’s 2/27/2022
January 2022
Do you know this trick? 1/31/2022
What do you know about this word? 1/24/2022
Showing possession to nouns 1/17/2022
You know more than you think you know 1/20/2022
December 2021
Help kids say thank you with less stress this season! 12/27/2021
November 2021
The three types of quotes that my advanced students have to include in their writing 11/22/2021
How do I make THIS multi-level? 11/15/2021
The three number rules I mentioned in last week’s pop quiz email 11/8/2021
How Do I feel about pop quizzes? 11/1/2021
October 2021
Why is shortening but lightning? 10/25/2021
When students love grammar and writing! 10/18/2021
Hot to cook, crack, and clean a crab… 10/11/2021
Formula for successful praising of students! 10/4/2021
September 2021
Never use the wrong its and it’s again! 9/27/2021
Some more wordy wisdom for you-precede vs. proceed! 9/20/2021
Gas, got, gum, glad, grip and the GUH and JUH issues – Part II of II 9/13/2021
Gem, giant, gym and the GUG and JUH issues– Part I of II 9/6/2021
August 2021
Colon quotes, split quotes, and more! 8/23/2021
Inside or outside? The 411 on periods and quotation marks 8/16/2021
Did you ride on a stationary bike or a stationery bike? 8/9/2021
Did you desert him in the desert with no dessert? 8/2/2021
July 2021
Do you agree with this parts of speech teaching order? 7/26/2021
What to do when kids think “If the cat climbed the tree” is a sentence! 7/19/2021
The first writing lesson of the new school year! 7/12/2021
You might have learned the use of A and An all wrong! 7/5/2021
June 2021
Did we have a lot of lightning or lightening last night? 6/28/2021
An, a, the… 3 little words that confuse students! 6/21/2021
Summer Holidays– including birthday and anniversary 6/14/2021
Are you getting to see the sights or the sites? 6/7/2021
May 2021
Grand Canyon vs. the canyon–trick teaching tips! 5/31/2021
Wrapping Things Up, Procrastination, Just Do It! 5/17/2021
Mother’s Day or Mothers’ Day 5/10/21
Never Confuse parenthesIS and parenthesES again! 5/3/2021