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Back to School Traditions Thank You and a New Traditions Link Up News

September 14, 2011 By Deirdre

I want to thank all of you that participated in the Back to School Traditions link up! It was wonderful to be to see all the first day of school pictures and to learn about your traditions. Back to School Traditions is the first of a series of fall link ups I will be offering. The next traditions event will be Halloween Traditions. The event will Continue Reading

Pause Life for a Moment- Taking Time to Remember

September 13, 2011 By Deirdre

There has been so much going on lately here in the U.S. There have been floods, fires, hurricanes, earthquakes, tornadoes, the anniversary of 9/11, droughts, etc.. This week instead of asking someone to share their thoughts on pausing life for a moment or sharing more of my own. I decided I needed to provide an opportunity for all of us to Continue Reading

Muffin Tin Monday- Chocolate

September 12, 2011 By Deirdre

Today is National Chocolate Milk Shake Day! I decided to focus today's muffin tin on chocolate today to celebrate! Oh! It is also Cream Filled Doughnut Day on Wednesday I decided to celebrate that too! I started this weeks lunch with cream cheese mixed with Ovaltine on an Arnold's Mini Thin bread with hole taken from the middle to make it look Continue Reading

Read.Explore.Learn.- A is for Apple and Rocket Learns to Read

September 9, 2011 By Deirdre

Welcome to Read.Explore.Learn.! This meme was designed to be a place for you to share the learning opportunities, crafts, field trips, and other activities you have done this week that tie-in to children’s books. I look forward to seeing ways you have learned with and explored books. Steps: Link your activity below. Please place the Continue Reading

A Teacher Remembers 9/11

September 8, 2011 By Deirdre

Due you remember where you were on 9/11 ten years ago? I do. I was in the computer lab working as a technology integration teacher at a school in Northern Virginia right near Dulles Airport. The library aide came to the door of the lab and asked me to come see something that was on television in the library. I couldn’t imagine what she Continue Reading

Understanding Preschool-Lessons from the First Week

September 7, 2011 By Deirdre

I am able to learn a lot about JDaniel time in preschool using his communication frame in the kitchen and the white board outside his classroom where his teachers write down everything they do in class.There are things I hear about over time as we travel in the car to run errands or play with Jdaniel’s construction equipment in his room.What have Continue Reading

Pause Life for a Moment- Be Still a Minute

September 6, 2011 By Deirdre

Sometimes you visit a blog and realize you and the blog's writer are kindred spirits. I felt that way when I first visited Be Still a Minute's blog. Her words hit home with me each time I read them. I haven't been through all the things she has in her life, but I do feel like I have learned from them. You are blessed to get to read some of her Continue Reading

Muffin Tin Monday- Celebrating Labor Day

September 5, 2011 By Deirdre

In honor of Labor Day today’s tin is filled with blue, white, and red foods with stars. He had Oreos sprinkled with stars, a cheese star on an Arnold’s Mini Sandwich Thin, tomatoes, my mom’s lasagna, black cherry yogurt with sprinkles, and fruit salad of blueberries and cranberries. JDaniel loved everything. The tin is filled with many of his Continue Reading

Our Back to School Traditions

September 3, 2011 By Deirdre

I have read everyone's wonderful Back to School Traditions posts and thought I would share what we did for JDaniel's first day. If you haven't had a chance to share your back to school traditions or first day of school pictures, the link up will stay open until September 8th. Labeling Clothes Before school started we labeled all of JDaniel's Continue Reading

Read.Explore.Learn.- Maisy Goes to Preschool

September 1, 2011 By Deirdre

Parenting: Tell Me About Your Day with a Communication Frame

September 1, 2011 By Deirdre

Tiggerific linked a post about Back to School Traditions that mentioned taking pictures of her grandson’s classroom. She wanted her grandson to feel more comfortable at a new school he was attending so, she made a poster of things that were in his new room. That idea stuck in my head as a went to JDaniel’s preschool open house last week. I took Continue Reading