Cutie Pie and Hubby trying to tap a logDo you live in an area where there are maple trees and maple sugaring festivals?Maple Syrup and sugar is made...
Maple Sugaring Festival
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Ask the right questions
We gave ourselves a family gift at Christmas. A fish tank. We've been trying to teach our boys responsibility with it, as well as just enjoying...
Listening to Patterns
The boys love to sit with their daddy after dinner and take turns drumming out patterns and copying what their daddy plays. We used to do this with...
5 Senses Experiment – Sense of Touch
I remember being in Earth Science class in High School having to reach into a box and determine what kind of rock I was touching. I put together a...
5 Senses – Sense of Taste Experiment
To continue on with the 5 sense experiments theme, today I'll share about our little taste experiment. (sense of taste, coordination, science) This...
5 Senses Experiment – Sight
Yesterday I mentioned doing some other fun things with the boys on the day we did our sight experiments. One taught about visual perception and was...
Fine Motor Play
While on the subject of some fine motor play with the goeboard and shaving cream play posts, I thought I'd share about Sweet Pea's interest in...
Color Mixing (more fine motor play)
"Mommy, this is a really cool experiment!" I love hearing this! I was on the computer checking out a couple of blogs when I came across this little...
Shaving cream play
Friday I posted about revisiting the geoboard with Sweet Pea after Cutie Pie had set it aside for some time. Another activity I decided to revisit...
Train Game (Sneaky Learning)
This morning, when Sweet Pea wanted me to 'play trains' (running around behind him as he tooted like a train) I asked if he wanted to stop at some...
Sneaky Reading Learning
Are you like me and read a lot to your kiddos? This is just one example of how to switch up reading that we do with our kiddos all the time.My...
Learning through Outdoor Games #2
I posted previously about one outdoor game Sweet Pea, my almost 4 year old, loves to play that I introduce a little sneaky learning into. Today...