Meredith W. Burton

Teaching, Learning, and Living
 
Meredith W. Burton

Don’t Sell the Picture Book Short!

If you are a parent, or a teacher of young children, how many picture books do you read to a child each day?  Can you imagine a life without picture books?  In my kindergarten class, the picture book and the characters within are the heroes of the day.  Twenty to …

Around the Table

How many nights a week does your family sit down to dinner together? When I was growing up, almost everyone I knew had dinner around the table as a family.  We thought it strange that one of my sister’s friends always had “pick up” for dinner, meaning you just picked …