The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats opens a door to so many winter fun crafts, stories and ideas. From snowmen, to snowflakes this unit is great for the cold winter months. The Snowy Day involves a young boy’s experience on a very snowy day. The magic and wonder of a lovely snowfall, as seen […]
I took Ivy & Bean out of the library months ago but Ava and I never got around to reading it. Then it became our turn to host our Mother/Daughter Book Club so I thought an Ivy & Bean Book Club would be good incentive to ensure that we would read it. I had heard […]
Last year was the first year I posted a Top Ten Most Popular Posts. I don’t often look in the analytics part of my blog, so it was fun to see where people were visiting. Since I really enjoyed it last year, I decided to do it again this year. I am including the Top […]
I recently came upon a blog post entitled, “25 Christmas Books to Read With Your Child”. This post inspired me to dig out our favorite Christmas books from home as well as to take a trip to the library and gather a stack of books to read throughout December. I love Adrienne’s idea of wrapping […]
About the Book: You Don’t Know Me (Deep Haven) Sometimes the secrets we keep to protect ourselves can be our undoing. To all who know her, Annalise Decker is a model wife and mother. She’s a permanent member of the PTA, never misses a sporting event, and is constantly campaigning for her husband’s mayoral race. […]
Ava and I spent a week in Harold’s world! The drawings are so simple, yet the story elicits such a large amount of imagination! We talked about what we would draw and how cool it would be to be able to draw in our life whatever it was that we needed. I have compiled a […]
Over the summer my daughter and I took to reading The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins. At first Chloe was dead set against reading them as the premise of the book was too upsetting for her. She had no desire to read a book where children are set up in an arena to fight to […]
or was it really just my subconscious reading something into what was already there? It is very easy to hear a song on the radio, see a quote on someone’s FB wall, read a book or an article, and find a way to make it apply to your life, or believe it was written about/for […]
A Lion and a Whale Can Dance is an interactive story of two unusual friends who find one another on a mystical island far, far away. This read aloud or alone book app is rated for ages 4+, and can be used on the iPod touch, iPad and iPhone. My six year old daughter loves […]
Throughout recent years I have had the pleasure of participating in multiple book clubs. Varying greatly from each other in size, style, organization and location. Book clubs can offer so many enriching benefits, not only from the literature discussion, but through the bonds built among participating members. (Check out my series, 10 Days on The […]
The BIG Handbook of Nature Study THE BIG HANDBOOK OF NATURE STUDY is a HUGE (940 pages) wonderful teaching guide full of hundreds of nature study lessons, activities and discussion questions. It is a complete multi-year nature study curriculum that you can use for years to come. It is over 100 megs in size! The […]
The Lorax Lapbook Activities includes everything you need for an elementary level Lorax unit. Books, printables, activities and more!