Browngirl Speaks

Say it with me in the Claire Huxtable voice: “MY BABY!”

So, this tooth has been loose for several weeks and, in the meantime, the new tooth decided to show up prematurely. AND the tooth next to it! They were growing in behind the teeth in front. The second tooth is barely loose, so my baby may have what some refer to as “stacked teeth”. UGH! I think I see some serious hardware in his future. Nonetheless, I cannot believe he is losing and growing teeth.

Just one more thing to remind me that my baby’s not a baby anymore.

I just came across the cutest of resources, one for note taking and one for creating your own newspaper. They can both be found on the ReadWriteThink website. The website is full of student materials and information related to literacy. Now, these are ahead of my first grader, but I had to share. I just hope they’re still available when it is appropriate.

The ReadWriteThink Notetaker is an interactive tool that let’s the student choose from built-in formatting. They can select bullets or Roman numerals, for example, and type their reading notes directly on screen then print them out. This could be great for those who don’t like to hand write notes and/ or reinforcement of the proper note taking format.

My favorite is the ReadWriteThink Printing Press. Another interactive tool that let’s the student create a printable newspaper, brochure, booklet, or flyer. I toyed with the newspaper option a bit and loved it! This is an amazing resource for teaching kids the proper layout of each of the aforementioned types of publications. It has kid friendly tool bar for formatting color and font size. There’s also a guide, that can be turned on or off, which explains what each section in the layout should include. This should incite so many hours of fun. This could be a great way to document your homeschool happenings in print for relatives that may not have computer access for reading blogs. Think how much the grandparents would love to receive your homeschool newspaper in the mail periodically!

This is just something else that makes me wish we had the internet when I was a kid…

If anyone actually completes a project on the printing press tool, please do share. I’d love to see a finished project.

P.S. To THL, for the HOH my top choices are Homeschool Boutique and Rainbow Resource Center.