Can you believe the stores are decorated for Christmas already? I don't really want to think about it yet, but the grandparents have been asking...
What will you give?
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What’s on their bedside tables? (Part 2)
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What spell would you use?
Our family is enjoying the Harry Potter series of books (you know, the ones by J.K. Rowling), fascinated by all the wizards and witches (and...
What’s round like a top? (but isn’t really)
My boys have been doing a lot of building and experimental building. Read: coming up with ideas to build and then using only specific materials to...
Fill in the Blanks Valentine
Last winter I posted here about a fun fill-in-the-blank activity I did with Cutie Pie. What I didn't post was that in first grade, he came up with a...
Carnival of the Animals – Lion Mane craft
Listening to the music and hearing the roar of a lion, meow of a cat, or the almost irritatingly slow melody of the can-can, as if a tortoise were...
What did you write about today?
Cutie Pie had a wonderful teacher for second grade and developed his imagination from the get-go. Mrs. P. had a very structured day in school, so...
Willy, nilly, silly
It caught my eye that Monday, January 18th is Winnie the Pooh day (and the birthday of A. A. Milne, the author of the Pooh books), a character...
Got a train lover?
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What’s in the box? – a sense of hearing {Christmas} game
When my boys were smaller we used to play a sense of hearing game called 'What's in the cup' or some other derivative I would come up with when we...
Cardinal Bird Craft
Yesterday I shared the love my family has for the book Stranger in the Woods: a Photographic Fantasy, by Carl R. Sams and Jean Stoick, and a picture...
Stranger in the Woods – book review
*This post contains affiliate links. Just a few years ago the boys received the book, Stranger in the Woods (a Photographic Fantasy), by Carl R....