Middle School

Apr 23, 2014

Tooting My Own Horn

By |2014-04-23T07:32:40-07:00April 23, 2014|Art & Music, Middle School, Parenting|3 Comments

Music. It can move you in ways nothing else can. It can bring back memories long forgotten. It can move you to tears at the most inexplicable times. It can make you drum your fingers and bop your head or completely let loose and dance like no one's watching. But when the music is coming [...]

Apr 11, 2014

Castle Building 101

By |2014-04-11T07:44:19-07:00April 11, 2014|Middle School, Whole Child Education|0 Comments

I have always been fascinated with castles. It probably goes back to the Fisher Price Castle that we played with at my Grandma’s house—although it was strangely inhabited by Sesame Street characters. My Grandma had that castle for something like  35 years—my daughters were even playing with it as we cleaned out her apartment last [...]

Feb 14, 2014

No Hugging and Other Lessons from Basketball

By |2014-02-14T07:02:55-08:00February 14, 2014|Athletics, Middle School|0 Comments

This is the time of year when I wear a lot of different hats. The other day I was trying to wrap my head around all of them—grade 8 math and science teacher, Rice Raiser organizer, Sunday School coordinator, daughter, sister, wife, and mom, to name a few. Plus (for a few more weeks, at [...]

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