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Bouquet of Learning Tools or Reusing Faux Flowers

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Here are a few ways you could reuse these patriotic flowers: Math Patterning- You could pattern by the color red, blue, white. Counting- You could count 1,2,3 and on or skip count by two's, three's or four's. Word problems- You could make up stories about gathering, arranging or sharing them that involve word Continue Reading

Muffin Tin Monday- Memorial Day

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JDaniel loved his star themed lunch. He sang Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star when I sat his tin down on the table. The tin had watermelon stars, Colby cheese stars with a turkey burger underneath them, yogurt, honey wheat bread stars, cherry tomotoes, and apple stars.   The cherry tomatoes were supposed to represent poppies that are used to Continue Reading

Tomato Shack: Child’s Starter Kit Giveaway

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If there is one thing I have learned while playing with JDaniel outside, is that he loves dirt. Whether you have boys or girls or a combination of boys and girls, they probably like to dig in the dirt too. The Tomato Shack has a great way to put that innate desire to dig to good use. They carry planting kits for children. Right now they carry a Continue Reading

Great Posts I Came Across This Week: May 29

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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: Deckside Thoughts has a great post called I'll Rest When I Get Home about visiting with returning soldiers. It is a simple and short post filled with meaning. Southern Savers had a post called Free Admission to Military Continue Reading

What Are the Rules At Your House?

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Everyone seems to have their own set of rules for their house. Some rules may be the same from one house to another while others may be a unique to a house or two. Here are some rules I have come across in the last couple of weeks: You have to take your shoes off when you come in the door. I get this rule. It helps keep the floors clean and cuts Continue Reading

Books on Manners and a Craft

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JDaniel and I read a number of books on manners this week. Some got to read only once and then were taken back to the library quickly. Why did they go back so quickly? Many of the books on manners spent the first half of the book describing bad manners and they spent the second half of the book pointing out good manners. When you have a little boy Continue Reading

Sitting Straight on the Sofa on Sunday

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My parents were divorced when I was eight. My sisters and I got to spend time on Sundays with my dad. More often than not he took us to his mother’s apartment. We called his mother and my grandmother Gigi. Gigi was a very formal lady who believed young ladies should sit straight and tall on the sofa. She would chat with us about school and ask my Continue Reading

Yes, Ma’am

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I hadn’t realized the many ways I say yes to JDaniel during the day. It really wasn’t until I decided to have him say, “Yes, Ma’am” the way my husband does that I really picked up on what I had been saying and how JDaniel was saying "yes". There was the yup, yeah, uh-huh, right, ya, and yes. When you are trying to correct him by saying, the words Continue Reading

Muffin Tin Monday- Exactly What He Likes

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I decide to do an egg theme. JDaniel doesn't like eggs. So, I tried to make some of JDaniel's foods look round like eggs this week. I am not sure I succeeded. He ate grape tomatoes, sweet peas, roundish watermelon, turkey lunchmeat (It comes from a bird that hatched from an egg, leftover stuffed bread that looked speckled like an egg, and roundish Continue Reading

Movement Activity: Veggies on the Move

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The link above is an affiliate link. We read the book Up, Down and Around by Katherine Ayres about how some vegetables grow up, while others grow down, and others grow round and round this week. After reading Up, Down and Around, I thought it would be fun to make vegetable flashcards for JDaniel to act out. He needed to stoop down low for the Continue Reading

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