Do you have a little animal loving tweet-heart? Are animals your little one’s pup-of tea? If so, then I’m not lion when I tell you they will love Zoobooks! We recently received our first issue and we are toad-ally in love.
I love learning unfamiliar words and having my kids join in. We often choose a new word of the week and practice using it in various ways. My kids love pulling out the dictionary to find new intriguing words. I am a self-proclaimed word nerd and my kids are known to be little grammar police.
My daughter has recently started learning multiplication and division. I am happy to report that she loves it. She gets so excited and tells me how fun learning is. That is such a win!
Raise your hand if you are tired of snow and cold weather. Luckily, here in Colorado it hasn’t been too bad this year. That doesn’t mean I’m not up for a little more sunshine and few more park days. Groundhog day is here and we will find out if spring is upon us or we will have six more weeks of frigid weather. Brrr…
Teaching your kids can and should be fun. This is not always easy, but teaching verbs makes it easy. So hop, skip, jump, run and swing. Go ahead, do it all and let your kids join in the fun.
We recently read The Josefina Story Quilt by Eleanor Coerr and Bruce Degen. It is a very sweet story about a girl and her beloved hen.
My Daughter and I recently read Thanksgiving on Thursday by Mary Pope Osborne. I have been trying to get her to read the Magic Tree House series for quite sometime but she has been against it. She can be stubborn that way. I decided to download one on my iPad and trick her.
What do you think about the Teal Pumpkin Project? We participated in the Teal Pumpkin Project last year and will be participating again this year. This project was started by FARE in 2014 to create a safer Halloween for all kids, including those with food allergies. This project was inspired by Food Allergy Community of East Tennessee (FACET).
Pokemon, Batman, Star Wars, and Wonder Woman. All of these are things that kids love. They all involve epic battles. Even shows like My Little Pony have feuds in them. It seems like the more conflict or action there is, the more kids love it. I’m thinking there could be a correlation between the two. You know what would be even better? If you could somehow incorporate this idea into learning, right?
The little miss and I have recently been reading Stories About Me by Sara Alice. When we received this book my daughter was immediately excited to see the cover. There is a place in the center of the cover for a photo of none other than your little cutie. What could be better than having your photo on the cover of a book? The new dilemma was whether she would draw the photo or we would take one to attach. This book is already promoting decision making and that is a great thing.