Picturepocket's Blog

Category: learning

  • Our History Month

    We don’t have to be the same to get along.

  • Black History Month

    Today is February 1st and the first day of Black History month. The purpose of having such a month is learn about the influence and contributions of Black Americans in our shared history. Today I learned, the first Black man to arrive was actually sailing the Santa María. A navigator and explorer of African ancestry,…

  • Aesop’s Fabulous Fables

    So well known are these tales that we use them as shorthand for the point we are making.

  • Infamous History

    “Mom, how do you spell gangster?”

  • Trophy Life

    People complain of the “everyone gets a prize” mentality, but why is celebrating anything but total domination a bad thing? I won no trophies while growing up in the late 80s and early 90s. Other than a few badges from Brownie scouts and a radio that looked like a soccer ball that I got from…

  • Our Online Surprise

    As parents of an elementary school student, we have shifted from live school, then to distance learning, and finally to Hillsboro Online Academy with a prepackaged curriculum and a dedicated teacher who checks in throughout the week. It has been a lot of transitions for us, but it hasn’t been all bad. To be honest,…