Both my girls have always loved books. Since they were about 2 months old we have gone to the library weekly and read at least 4 books a day. Ashlyn started reading pretty young and hasn’t stopped. I wasn’t sure Emily was going to have the same desire to read but about a month ago [...]
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Dr. Seuss Day
February 4, 2010 – 4:43 pm
Today we had a great day filled with Dr. Seuss activities. We started off the day by reading The Cat in the Hat. Then we made our own Cat in the Hat The kids painted the back of a paper plate black. While those were drying, we worked on the hats. They used red construction [...]
Caps For Sale – Hat Day
January 21, 2010 – 8:26 am
To start off our unit on Community Helpers, we had a Hat Day on Tuesday. Each student got to wear their favorite hats. We read the book Caps For Sale and they loved it. They had so much fun yelling “tsk, tsk, tsk” like the monkeys. After reading we played musical hats, a game just [...]
Kid Friendly Friday- Websites
August 21, 2009 – 8:23 am
My girls love playing on the computer. So I am always trying to find fun, educational websites for them to learn on. Here are my thoughts on a few new ones that I found. www.ixl.com- This is a fee based math website for kids from preschool on up. You can sign up for a free [...]
Making Words Activity
March 26, 2009 – 2:39 pm
I’ve been posting a lot of activities to do with 2 year olds lately so I wanted to post one that I did with my 5 year old yesterday. When I taught 1st grade, I did a lot of making words activities with my class. They had fun doing them and had no idea just how much they [...]