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Setting Up A Literacy Center- Vocabulary

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Two friends and I took our children to the Hughes Library in downtown Greenville to experience Laugh'n' Learn Reading Readiness at the beginning of the summer. It was six interactive centers set up to share ideas on helping your child learn pre-reading skills. We had a great time exploring each of the centers and seeing what each of our children Continue Reading

Muffin Tin Monday- Breakfast with an Ocean View

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This week's tin has water-related animal pancakes. Did you figure out what they are supposed to be? There are fish, flamingo, and dolphin pancakes. They are above a sea made of grape jelly, blueberry applesauce, and red grapes. JDaniel loved this meal so much he asked for it again later. The pancakes had to be broken up for him for dipping. He Continue Reading

Great Posts I Came Across This Week- August 15

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Each week I travel around the internet visiting blogs. Here are a few posts that I loved, learned from, or gave me great ideas: Child Related Post: Nurture Store has a fun post on Bean Bag Games. I love chalk and bean bag activities. A Bunch of Keys has a great idea for Painting with Condensed Milk.   I love the imaginative Continue Reading

Two Animal Books and Tracing Animal Textures

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This week JDaniel had read Animals Talk and Animals Go by Emily Bolam. These beautiful board books don't contain a lot of print. Each animal has a single word they would say in Animals Talk. The Animals Go book contains a single word for what each animal would do. They don't actually show the animal moving or talking. These leaves open the avenue Continue Reading

Yield! Family in Boot Camp

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This yellow shirt tells you where my family is right now. We are in Toddler Boot Camp. Notice I didn’t say JDaniel was in Toddler Boot Camp. My husband and I are going through Boot Camp too. When you think about boot camp or at least when I do I think of the drill sergeant in an Officer and a Gentleman yelling at the new recruits. At my house, Continue Reading

Morning Words Out of My Toddlers Mouth

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The first words JDaniel says each morning when I go to get him out of his crib tell me a lot about what he was thinking about right before he went to sleep or when he first woke up. They are usually very interesting.Here are some examples:I went to volunteer at a consignment sale last week and my husband put JDaniel to bed.JDaniel: “Daddy put on Continue Reading

Stepping Stones Together Review

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Stepping Stones Together is a wonderful online resource of reading tools that parents can use to help their children learn to read developed by Dr. Erika Burton. The program has two reading assessment you can do to see if your child is even ready to start the program. Parents have access to the both the Alphabet Test and the Letter Sound Test Continue Reading

Muffin Tin Monday- Christmas Breakfast in August

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When you let your two year old pick out the tin for his lunch, he may pick out a Christmas tin in August. The Santas, snowman, and gingerbread men are covered with food, but I bet you can still see their outlines. We tried a new breakfast casserole this week with leeks, blueberries, and turkey sausage. It was good. It needed something, but I Continue Reading

A Book About Home and A Home for Construction Vehicles

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The link above is an affiliate link. After being on the road from July 20th through July 26th, it is wonderful to be home. There were a few times while we were gone that I wished I could have just put my house on wheels and brought it with me the way the characters in Home did. This wonderful book subtitled Once There Was A House, A House That Continue Reading

The Orange Sign, The Wedding, The GPS, and the Deer

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JDaniel is so into John Deere right now. It could be because his Cousin Charlie’s room is decorated in John Deere pictures. While we were up visiting my sister Kate’s family in the country outside of Syracuse, NY we saw a lot of orange signs. The only one that really stood out to JDaniel was the John Deere signs. I know they are supposed to be a Continue Reading

The Adventures of Driving to New York and Back

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Visiting Gettysburg

  I really dreaded the long car ride two weeks ago to New York from our house in South Carolina. While JDaniel and I looked forward to seeing my sister Kate’s family and going to a family wedding, the hours in the car were going to be a challenge. I drove the first leg of the trip from South Carolina to Virginia without any trouble. JDaniel Continue Reading

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