Year: 2014

Tens again

Tens again

Slowing down at the end of a long, active spring day. Stormy clouds are rolling in. Tabitha and I watch them together for a couple of minutes from the west-facing window at the top of our stairs. I ask Tabitha if I can ask her a quick math question. She consents. Me:...

Spirals

Spirals

A few weeks back, this short cryptic video came to my attention thanks to the magic of Twitter. https://vine.co/v/MMEJuOXYndP Thanks to kids connect (@KinderFynes on Twitter) For more than a year now, I have been posting links and other short bits on Twitter using the...

10-minute reading time

10-minute reading time

A while back, bedtime was spiraling out of control. The kids share a room; they would be wound up at bedtime and the transition to sleep was not happening smoothly. We had a big, big problem on our hands. We solved the problem with 10-minute reading time. The...

Easter candy

Easter candy

Easter Sunday saw St Paul, Minnesota waking up to weather perfection. Sunshine, low seventies (Fahrenheit), cloudless sky. Truly amazing. There was a loon on Lake Phalen! This was the sort of April weather that brings Minnesotans out of their homes to rediscover their...

March Mathness, week 3

March Mathness, week 3

Week 3 of my month of math in March is up on the Tiggly blog. This week: Patterns! Click on through. A pattern Tabitha made a year ago when she found two markers and a piece of paper on the table. Get ready to waltz with your wee one.

Twister

Twister

Tabitha received a Twister game for her recent birthday (7 years old!) She enjoys a version of the game in which one person spins and the other follows instructions until, as Tabitha puts it with much delight, the cookie crumbles. The players switch roles for the...