Here is the third installment to our homemade grade one curriculum. To keep things a bit organized I’ve created a Grade One Curriculum page where I will have links to each of the weeks as I post them, you can head there to get the link for previous weeks as well as an overview to…
In my opinion, the best kind of book is a big book. Bonus points for books that are big and beautiful. That is the case for all the books on today’s book list. These are six big books with gorgeous illustrations that I know you (and your kids) will enjoy looking at for hours, I…
Kids love repetition, especially when it comes to reading the same books over and over again. It can be so good for language development but as a parent you want to make sure the books you are reading over and over are good ones, not the if-I-have-to-read-this-one-more-time-I’ll-pull-my-hair-out kind. I was thinking the other day, if…
I love reading books to my kids. If all we do is read a few books each day I feel like I’ve taught them something, even if we never touched on any other subjects. But for the past few weeks our read alouds had been getting pushed off for one reason or another and I…
We recently celebrated Raeca’s 6th birthday and I knew I wanted to put together a list of non-toy gifts for girls her age. While she loves toys she can also become overwhelmed with them and there are so many good, educational gifts out there that aren’t the typical Barbie and have so many more benefits….
I totally blame it on the show Octonauts but we’ve been on a bit of an underwater kick around here lately. Each week Raeca picks a new animal or two to learn about in science and we’ve had a good stretch of sea creatures; pilot fish, jellyfish and the green sea turtle). The kids have…