Reading One of my hobbies is Reading. I also love to teach Reading so this summer I created a website on Reading; www.HowtoImproveReading.com. It is a huge subject and includes many facets such as Vocabulary, Fluency, Comprehension to name just a few. I reccommended quite a few books on my website that I had used down through the years with children. A few of them were Tom Sawyer, Ramona and Beezus, The Island of the Blue Dolphins, and Where the Red Fern Grows. There are so many others but these are a few of the books children really loved to... Continue reading

The restrained dawn strains behind the crowd. When I was young, I was adventurous and wanted to go somewhere more exciting than Toledo, Ohio. So a friend and I, after a year or two of teaching, decided to come to Denver, Colorado. I had been here a couple of times with my parents. There was so much to see and do and it was exciting. My friend had a teaching job in Brighton, Colorado, and I landed one in Adams County District 50 in Westminster, Colorado. So our adventure began. We began searching for things to do and ended up... Continue reading