Teaching & Parenting

How to Study! Tips on Studying for Tests in High School and College
One of the most important things to do is start right away. As soon as you get an assignment or find out what day a test is scheduled, start studying. Get organized with the tools needed such as paper, pencils, pens, highlighter markers, a quiet place to study. Now this should only take a few minutes. Don’t let planning to study interfere with actually studying. However, if you take a few minutes to plan you will study smarter.

For this unique study tip, you'll need three colored pens: a red, blue, and black...read the rest of the article here!

Check out my article about the teaching I did this spring at the local schools in Gratiot County! I taught second graders about trees and conservation efforts. It was a really fun lesson! Here's the article:

Local Second Graders Are Preparing for their Free Tree!

Check out this cool math website I found to calculate percentages! Math.com The World of Math Online.

This summer I participated in a cool program called Get Out and Play at the Capitol.

It was held on the lawn of the Capitol building in Lansing, Michigan. Read all about it here!!

Ask Your Children: What Is Good Friday?
You may be shocked at the answer. You take your kids to Church; you teach them about Jesus, you tell them the stories from the Bible – including the story of Easter. And yet, most kids don’t know what Good Friday is!

I talked casually with a group of ten year old girls yesterday at church, and I asked them: What is Good Friday? The first thing I heard was “Earth Day!” Seriously, whose idea was it to set Earth Day this year on the same day as Good Friday!?! Read the rest of the article here!

Raising Baby Bunnies!
A few days ago we realized that we had a beautiful rabbit hanging out in our yard. My first desire was to put her in one of our cages and keep her forevermore! Then I thought about how happy she looked hopping around our beautiful yard and decided that she didn’t need to have a cage for a home; she had a giant plush green cage with lots of space to run and play...read the rest of the story here!

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