I was over at a friend’s house this evening and their kids wanted to play on Spelling City with my little girl. I’ve never heard of the site and I liked it immediately after finding out more about what the site provides to students.

The Spelling City website lets your sign-up and register as a parent and then have you kids sign-on and practice their own spelling words. The website allows you to add your kid’s spelling words into the site. This lets your kids practice their own words, not just general spelling words.
The other great feature is that teachers can …read more

I was sharing with my son this evening about a trumpet player who would play by blowing out his cheeks and neck to play his horn. It’s actually really bad form, at least according to my band director as he was teaching me to play many years ago.

I think sometimes we may forget about the simple little things we can find online and uncover on the Internet. The ability to find a quick video segment of Dizzy Gillespie to show my son is a tremendous resource. It’s like having a multi-media, never aging set of encyclopedia’s at your finger tips.
Just …read more