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...
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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...
An Unlikely Hero’s Wisdom
Cutie Pie absolutely loves the How to Train Your Dragon book series by Cressida Cowell. Last night we were reading Book 12, How to Fight a Dragon's...
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...
Thankful garland
Just a quick idea to share with you as you contemplate Thanksgiving. A few years ago we made what we call Thankful Garland. Every day in the month...
Have I told you I’m scared of spiders?
My kids love examining things, and spiders fascinate them! In the spirit of a fun halloween, I'm sharing another spider cookie idea (You can see the...