JulieLeung.com: a life told in tidepools

#2 is my favorite: Too much fun! Thanks to Katherine for a great list…

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On our drive to Los Angeles in October, we listened to The Twenty-One Balloons by William Pene du Bois. I found the book on a reading list for Abigail’s level but soon Ted and I wanted to read it too, taking turns passing the paperback through the van. The story begins in San Francisco in […]

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A recent article in the Seattle Times reported that the state’s WASL math test may not be difficult enough according to an evaluation that compared Washington tests to other state’s math tests. In the past few weeks, out of curiousity, for practice, and to confirm my teaching method, I gave Abigail four different sample math […]

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Earlier this month the girls and I read A Grain of Rice. In this story set in fifteenth century China, a poor but clever farmer’s son wants to marry the Emperor’s daughter. After he creates a potion that helps cure the Princess, he asks for his reward to be one grain of rice…at doubled each […]

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This week the girls and I read Hill of Fire by Thomas P. Lewis, which describes the 1943 creation and eruption of Paricutin in Mexico, one of the first times in recorded human history that people have observed the birth of a volcano. The author described the time and place of the villagers with details […]

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