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Patriotic Foods for Kids

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  The summer is filled with patriotic holidays.  Memorial Day next week. Flag Day is on June 14th. Then there is the 4th of July in the middle of the summer. Finally, there is Labor Day which is celebrated at summer's end. I searched through the blog's archives to find patriotic foods for kids that I have served. These meals, snacks, and Continue Reading

Read.Explore.Learn- Reading Comprehension: Illustrating a Story

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Reading Comprehension Illustrating a Story - Amelia Bedelia Helps Out

This week JDaniel and I read the book Amelia Bedelia Helps Out.  JDaniel loves the humorous way Amelia messes things up by not understanding that words have multiple meanings. I love her too. She turns 50 this year. (That means that people have been chuckling at her missteps for over half a century. ) It is her misunderstanding that I decided Continue Reading

Learning Activities – 19 Ways To Use A Zigzag Learning Maze

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  Sometimes you sit down and plan an activity you will be doing with your children. You brainstorm what you will do during the activity along with alternative ways you can use it. There are other times you just grab a roll of tape and see what you can make with it.  That is just what happened with this zigzag learning maze. When I Continue Reading

Father’s Day Crafts- Walking In My Father’s Shoes

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Father's Day is such a wonderful day to celebrate. I wanted to create a Father's Day craft that would capture a memory and  carry a message of how much JDaniel loves his dad. The idea I came up with was a craft I am calling Walking In My Father's Shoes. We have created a few other Father's Day crafts I will share with you at the end of this Continue Reading

Father’s Day Breakfast- Cereal Tie

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Father's Day - Cereal Tie

I know it was just Mother's Day yesterday and Father's Day isn't for awhile, but I have been trying to come up with a special Father's Day breakfast.  Last year JDaniel was taught how to make me a special breakfast fruit sundae. (Yes, we practice making it ahead of time.) I thought dad would like to have a special breakfast too. My husband Continue Reading

{Children’s Book Week} 18 Favorite Books and Activities

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This is the beginning of Children's Book Week.  I thought I would share with you twenty of the books we have shared in Read.Explore.Learn. posts. If you click on the name of the book below, it will take you to the book explorations that JDaniel and I did for each post. If you click on a book's name, it will take you to an activity we have Continue Reading

{Kids Activities} 10 Fun Flower Posts

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10 Fun Flowers Posts

Mother's Day always makes me think of flowers. I think it is because my husband has always given me flowers for Mother's Day. Here are some wonderful links to flower themed snack, meals, learning activities and crafts. Three Child Friendly Spring Salads - Children will have fun trying three fun and fresh salads that they can help you Continue Reading

Dig Into Reading- Gus Grows a Plant Learning Activities

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Gus Grows a Plant is this week's book for Read.Explore.Learn. It is a wonderful book easy reader that walks children through the process Gus goes through to grow a sunflower. In very simple text the story explains what plants need to grow, grow, and grow.                                                 JDaniel's class went on a field trip to Uncle Continue Reading

{Gardens for Kids} Spider Web Trellis

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Gardens for Kids- Spider Web Trelling

The idea for this spider web trellis came after reading about a spider web trellis in a book about gardening for kids. The book suggested using bamboo poles and twine to create a web. They went on to recommend that you plant a sweet pea plant to weave into the web. JDaniel and I headed to Home Depot with the book in hand to see if we could find Continue Reading

Yes, Mom is Part of My Name

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A few years ago I went to a blogging conference and  a lady from a PR agency shared that she wished that so many bloggers didn't put the word mom in their blog names. "You will not always be a mom," she said. She encouraged people that hadn't started  a blog to avoid using it. "You are so much more and will write about so much more than being a Continue Reading

{Dig Into Gardening} M.O.M. Herb Container Garden and Link Up

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Digging Into Gardening- Mom Herb Garden for Mother's Day

When I head that the theme for summer reading was going to be Dig Into Reading, I was thrilled. There are so many wonderful concepts and activities that children dig into. The first concept or theme that came to mind was gardening. My family loves to work on our yard and to garden. I also noticed that a large number of members of the Kid Blogger Continue Reading

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