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Week at a Glance: Book of the Week GIVEAWAY: One Tiny Turtle by Nicola Davies FREE choice journal writing Turtles Make Ten Math Game Turtle FREE printable books Turtle FREE printable counters Book of the Week GIVEAWAY: One Tiny Turtle by Nicola Davies Why we love this book: The book begins with a brief introduction [...]
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Week at a Glance: Book of the Week GIVEAWAY: Growing Frogs by Vivian French word work and sentence writing FREE printable book: Life Cycle of a Frog Blank FREE printable book: Life Cycle of a Frog Illustrated FREE printable cards: Life Cycle of a Frog Illustrated FREE printable cards: Life Cycle of a Frog Blank [...]
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Week at a Glance: GIVEAWAY of the Week: Story Cubes Story Cubes Easter Basket Stuffer Story Cubes Illustration Game Dog Loves Drawing Story Telling Inspiration The Coloring Book Easter Basket Recommendation Toy Review and GIVEAWAY of the Week: Rory’s Story Cubes Why we love Story Cubes: When it comes to Birthday’s and Holidays, I like [...]
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Week at a glance . . . Book of the Week GIVEAWAY: COUNT by Dwell Studio Art explorations: Winter Lace Collage with Birds Book making: I See Birds FREE printable book: Birds Up In a Tree FREE printable bird counters I don’t have much free time to peruse the thumbnails at pinterest. But occasionally one [...]
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Book of the Week GIVEAWAY: Elephants by Steve Bloom Why we love this book: Have you considered giving your children an elephant for Christmas this year? Yes, a real elephant! Last year, our family adopted a baby elephant. Yes, a real elephant. Since then books about elephants catch my eye. This elephant book by Steve [...]
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Book of the Week GIVEAWAY: ME I AM by Jack Prelutsky We introduced ME I AM yesterday in Joyce’s post: Tips on How to Start and Organize Preschool Portfolios. Yes, we are GIVING AWAY two copies this week. Increase your chances and enter on both posts this week. Leave a comment here and then head [...]
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Book of the Week GIVEAWAY: My Tooth Is About to Fall Out by Grace Maccarone When it comes to writing with young children, I’ve found that creative writing is overrated. (Hold your judgment for one minute, please no nasty grams.) Have you ever tried to write a story or a poem? It’s HARD! That’s why [...]
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Book of the Week GIVEAWAY: Baby Bear, Baby Bear What Do You See? by Bill Martin Jr & Eric Carle Why we love this book: What’s not to love? It’s Bill Martin Jr & Eric Carle! As we continue our series on journal writing with kindergartners we cannot emphasize enough the importance of easy familiar [...]
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Book of the Week GIVEAWAYS: On The Go by Ant Parker and Airport by Byron Barton Last week we began our series on age appropriate journal writing with toddlers. This week we’re continuing the series with preschoolers. As a Teacher and now a homeschool Mom, I’ve learned to keep things low maintenance! For all of [...]
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Book of the Week GIVEAWAY: Baby’s First Animals by Hinkler Books Why we love this book: We start reading to children when they are infants. This book with it’s simple colorful pictures and text are just what we look for when reading to baby. For toddlers, the one word pages introduce toddlers to the concept [...]
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Book of the Week GIVEAWAY: Wings, Horns, and Claws: A Dinosaur Book of Epic Proportions by Christopher Wormell Why we love this book: Once again our book GIVEAWAY is in honor of MacGyver’s love for all things prehistoric. The author, Christopher Wormell, brings prehistoric creatures to life through his award-winning linoleum-block print illustrations. The layout [...]
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Random Integer Generator Here are your random numbers: 3 Timestamp: 2010-11-29 14:20:30 UTC Congratulations Robin # 3 Robin November 24, 2010 at 10:56 pm My favorite alphabet book is the A,B,C’s of the sea. There are more ABC books out there but I like that one the best. Contact us at our email: winner at [...]
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We’re GIVING AWAY FREE printable Alphabet Guides. Look for the printable link at the end of this post. We’re also GIVING AWAY a set of professionally printed of Alphabet Guides. Research shows that there are three simple indicators that build strong early literacy foundations in young children: 1. Children engaged in conversation with adults. 2. [...]
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Look close. Look close. What do you see? I see a tall giraffe looking at me. I see myself standing on a hill. After reading Leaf Man by Lois Ehlert, Grandson # 3 was inspired to gather leaves and create his own leaf collage. He created the collage featured above and brought it to his [...]
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Book of the week GIVEAWAY: Frogs by Nic Bishop and See How They Grow: Frog by DK (*with stickers) Why we love these books: We love all of Nic Bishop’s nonfiction books full of amazing photos and interesting facts. Children love his books. See How They Grow: Frog teaches the life cycle of a frog [...]
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Book of the Week GIVEAWAY: Move Over Rover by Karen Beaumont Why we love this book: First, Move Over Rover is a new and creative twist on the traditional tale of The Mitten. This time Rover is in the dog house as a fall storm blows into the neighborhood. Soon a cumulative story begins of [...]
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Do you scrapbook? I don’t. When MacGyver and Miss Enigma were born I bought each a scrapbook and all the trimmings to scrap away about their first year of life. I did two pages in MacGyver’s before he was born and I didn’t do any pages in Miss Enigma’s. I know, I win the shameful [...]
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I have an ancient copy of Amy Vanderbilt’s Everyday Etiquette. Even thought I’ve had it over 20 years, I’ve never actually opened it up and read any of the pages. But I’m sure somewhere in there, it informs us that it is proper etiquette to send thank-you notes. So along with cooking and doing his [...]
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Book of the week GIVEAWAY: Chester’s Way by Kevin Henkes Last week we highlighted 10 easy steps to introduce journal writing to children. Okay, no beating around the bush this week. As adults, most of us have unrealistic expectations of children. We hand them a journal and expect them to start writing. And even worse, [...]
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Book GIVEAWAY: I Like Me by Nancy Carlson and I Like Myself by Karen Beaumont and a Journal to get started. Book GIVEAWAY information at end of post. When I was in seventh grade, our teacher introduced journal writing to our Language Arts class. Well it really wasn’t an introduction at all! We all had [...]
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Most teachers and parents we know sing with their children. We like to combine singing with shared writing to create song adaptations. One of our favorite sing-along songs is I Love the Mountains. Jeannine fell in love with this song at a Bill Martin workshop 20 years ago. Since then, we’ve been singing this simple [...]
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