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Take Your Child to Work Day is Thursday, April 25th

April 22, 2013 by Jenae — Leave a Comment

Take Your Child to Work Day is April 25th

Thursday, April 25th is Take Your Child to Work Day! This is an excellent opportunity for our sons and daughters to learn about responsibility and earning an income! If you don't work outside the home, ask your husband or another prominent figure in your child's life if he/she would be willing to let your child tag along! We will be out of town on Thursday, so Big … [ Keep reading… ]

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Filed Under: 3-5 years, Parenting, School Age

Show-and-Share Saturday Link Up!

April 20, 2013 by Jenae — 2 Comments

There were lots of great ideas shared last week. Here are just a few: Toddler Approved shares this Tape Shape Matching Activity. We did something similar with household items in our Giant Shape Sort. Check out these Lego Learning Activities from One Perfect Day. April is Financial Literacy Month. Carrots are Orange shares 8 Ways to Teach Kids about Money. Have an idea … [ Keep reading… ]

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Paint Chip Mosaic Earth

April 19, 2013 by Jenae — 1 Comment

Earth Day is Monday, April 22nd. Last year we created this Earth Day project and this year we decided to try something a little more abstract--a Paint Chip Mosaic Earth. I had a few of these paint chip cards leftover from a recent painting project, but we did end up getting a few more blue paint chips to add specifically for this project. Here's what you'll need: Paint … [ Keep reading… ]

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Filed Under: 2-3 years, 3-5 years, Earth Day, Fine Motor, School Age

S is for Snake: Alphabet Craft

April 18, 2013 by Jenae — 2 Comments

Little Brother and I created this Striped Snake for our Letter "S" Craft. We conveniently used a sponge to create our stripes all while Little Brother was wearing his striped sweater (Repeat the last 2 sentences 3 times as quick as you can...go!). Actually, the striped sweater thing wasn't planned...after all, who would expect a child to need a sweater in mid-April. … [ Keep reading… ]

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Filed Under: 2-3 years, 3-5 years, Alphabet, Alphabet Crafts, Language Development, Zoo

Consonant Digraph Garden

April 17, 2013 by Jenae — 2 Comments

Part of learning to read is learning to recognize the various graphemes within a word. A grapheme is the visual representation of a phoneme (the smallest unit of sound). Although we stress learning individual letter sounds, we often forget that there are 44 phonemes in the English language and only 26 letters...which means there are lots of other sounds to learn besides just the … [ Keep reading… ]

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