Reading is a favorite activity in our house, especially in the winter when it’s too cold to be outside. We enjoy curling up on the couch under a warm blanket reading lots of good books together. What better way to mark our page than with a fun winter bookmark we color ourselves?! Today I am …
Spring is one of my favorite seasons! I love seeing the colorful flowers bloom and the warm, but not hot, temperatures invite lots of time spent outside. One of my favorite bible verses for spring is found Song of Songs 2: 11-13: “Look, the winter is past, and the rains are over and gone. The …
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Young children love to pretend in every way. They enjoy learning new activities, too! Every day, my young children see me do laundry. They sometimes like to help put the clothes in the washer and dryer, match socks while folding and my 4 year old likes to help put her clean and folded clothes away …
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We own many children’s books in our house. We love every one of them. I love reading and raising readers is important to me, but the sheer number of children’s books in the house can be overwhelming at times. As our children’s book collection grew and started to take over our living room, we needed …
It’s November, which means we start doing turkey-themed crafts and activities, focusing on being thankful and reading about Thanksgiving. I think it is so important to teach our little ones about being thankful and I am in love with our family’s Thanksgiving Tree we put up this year š Last year, we wrote thank you …
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Learning the letter Ll with your toddler or preschooler can be fun and engaging. It should be filled with lots of conversation and hands-on practice. As soon as I added That’s Not My Lamb and That’s Not My Llama to our home library, the activities included in this 16-page letter l learning booklet were born. …
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Being a SAHM is truly a blessing because I am the one to experience each milestone my children reach and be in control of their days. While engaging in unstructured play is an important work of childhood, my children get tired of playing with toys all day. And so do I. This is why I …
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Spring has sprung! That means new themes, books and vocabulary to explore with the little ones. We love switching out our books when the seasons change. It gives the kids something to look forward to when spring arrives. Spring comes with interesting learning topics for toddlers and preschoolers! Between planting a garden, watching flowers grow, …
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Winter keeps us inside more, which means we spend a lot of time reading books and engaging in fun hands-on activities for building those motor and early literacy skills. My three year old daughter recently started showing an interest in letters. Naturally, the reading teacher in me jumped at the chance to start engaging in …
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My daughter is a busy and curious 2 Ā½ year old, but then again, which almost 3 year old isnāt!? I love reading books to young children! As a former elementary school ESL and reading teacher, I know just how important it is to bring books into childrenās lives and show them the importance of …
