Random Musing of The Accidental Bystander

I love big picture books for kids. The importance of classification in a child's mind of the world around him is to me the cornerstone o...

Spring has come to Arizona early in February this year.  My garden is growing and the Wisteria tree in the back yard is budding out. ...

The Lego Mindstorm Robotics System has been around for quite some time.  Legos are imaginative and creativity and in it's own inner chan...

I don't like labels.  Silly words we use to classify and sort ourselves and others in to little neat packages to put ourselves into tidy...

My biggest job as an educator and parent is to create and model the joy of learning to my students.  One of my most  favorite courses that...

In the summertime when Arizona weather is so hot we stay inside. We take mini vacations, work on projects, take care of animals and the gard...

This is another example of how to use a manipulative and the building of one to teach a lesson in geometry.  Making dre...