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Corn Maze- Math Activity

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Corn Maze Numbers Math Activity

We will be walking through a full-size corn maze when we go to the pumpkin patch until then we have small corn maze math activity in our backyard. It doesn't have any dead ends or twists to it. It is a simple avenue of corn that we can walk through. Our corn maze is simply construction paper husks of corn placed on stakes. (The stakes have been Continue Reading

Kids Gardening – Planting a Pumpkin’s Seeds in a Pumpkin

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Planting pumpkin seeds in a pumpkin is our latest attempt to grow pumpkins. Last summer we tried several times to grow pumpkins in our backyard. The seeds grew into long vines with beautiful blooms. The blooms were then eaten by big beetles that apparently love pumpkin flowers and live under the shed we planted our pumpkin seeds beside. This fall I Continue Reading

Mama, Do You Love Me?

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My family wasn't big on saying the words "I Love You" out loud. They wrote it in cards at birthdays, but beyond that I don't remember hearing it. ( I could be forgetting other instances though.) I tell JDaniel that I love him all the time because of that and well because I love him a whole lot. When the two of us were together most of the day, I Continue Reading

Sight Word Game – Apple Tree Words

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When JDaniel came home from school last week, he found an Apple Tree Words sight word game hanging from a tree beside our driveway.  "What is that? " he asked me. "It is a fun way to work on sight or popcorn words," I told him. He gave me a look like more sight words. Yes, we have been working on sight words a lot this fall.  JDaniel is learning Continue Reading

Fire Ladder Learning Activities

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      Today begins Fire Safety Week! To celebrate Fire Safety Week along with Fire Prevention Month I placed a fire truck ladder made of tape down a hall on the first floor of the house. When my husband asked what we were going to do with the ladder, I told him that JDaniel and I would brainstorm ways to use it.I hadn't Continue Reading

Fire Truck Craft

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One of the fun things I have been doing to help JDaniel's class this year has been to help with the SEEDS program. It is right up my alley. The program is like Read.Explore.Learn. and you know how much I love to explore books. I decided to share a fire truck theme book with them called Meeow and the Big Box is about a kitten who uses a big box to Continue Reading

Read.Explore.Learn. – Fire Safety Themed Activites

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October is Fire Prevention Month. JDaniel  loved to climb all over a fire truck when it came the library for Fire Prevention Month. Now that he is in school all day we can't head over for story time and the fire truck's visit. I decided to share with you  and him fire themed learning activities and book designed to help children learn about fire Continue Reading

Picking Apples with My Kindergartner

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Visiting an apple orchard was one of the things on our fall bucket list  that we wanted to check out first. Actually with only a few weeks left in apple season here in the Carolinas, it really needed to be done first.  JDaniel and I decided to check it off our list. Picking apples with my kindergartner was going to be so much fun. Details on Continue Reading

9 Apple Recipes for Kids

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apple recipes for kids

  We love apples at our house. They are on our shopping list every week. They are great to eat on their own or as a part of a dessert, dip, or lunchtime main dish.When I looked back through the archives, I found that we had created and/or made 9 apple recipes for kids. Each was wonderfully delicious and super easy to make. I hope you will find Continue Reading

Kids Lunch- Apple Filled Lunch

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I should be thinking of lunches with leaves or maybe pumpkins, but I am still creating kids lunches with that are apple filled. Our recent trip to an apple orchard has filled our house to the brim with apples. Apples have been appearing during breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Oh! and sometimes snacks. I hope you will like this apples for kids lunch Continue Reading

{Read.Explore.Learn.} Reading Activities with an Apple Theme

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{Read.Explore.Learn.} Reading Activities with an Apple Theme

Apples is a wonderful picture book that shares tons of information about apples. The illustrations help young readers picture walk through the book. There is a lot of text on each page and many young readers will need to have this book read to them. It is so worth reading with them even if it is only a page or two at a time. The book shares how Continue Reading

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