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Muffin Tin Monday- The Alphabet for Breakfast

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Muffin Tin Monday has started their themes back up for the fall. The theme for this week is the A,B, C or alphabet related tins. I decided to stick with my theme for Muffin Tin Mondays this month which is breakfast and make an A, B, C breakfast. The breakfast came out yummy. I know because I made a tin for myself. JDaniel was allowed to select Continue Reading

This Little Piggy and a Craft

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JDaniel is working a lot on fine motor skills with his fingers. One way we have been working on fine motor skills is to do the finger plays in the book This Little Piggy and other favorite action rhymes by Hannah Wood. He learned several of the rhymes in this book from Miss Donna, the teacher of the Mother Goose Class we attended at the library. Continue Reading

Great Green Gobs of Greasy, Grimy Gopher Guts!

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Great green gobs of greasy, grimy gopher guts have been coming out of my son. JDaniel has had diarrhea and a sinus infection this week. There are been great green globs from head to diaper. Thank goodness the Target diapers we use have been doing a great job. Thank goodness I stockpile tissue when it is on sale. We have been through plenty of both. Continue Reading

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

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