Bugs, Bugs, Bugs…

My daughter loves bugs, worms and snails. She loves reading about insects and she is not in the least squeamish about handling them. She ...

How to Create a “Masterpiece”

How to introduce great artists of the world to preschool children and help them create their first masterpiece. Discovering Great Ar...

What My Child Is Reading – March 26, 2011

Amazon.com Widgets As always, it was a busy reading week. Two big chapter books are still Tonight on Titanic that Anna keeps reading on ...

Week In Review – March 25, 2011

Anna is 4 years 5 months old. It was a very rainy and gloomy week, and we all have a bit of a cabin fever by now. We even had a very unusu...

We Play Titanic

Our current listening selection in the car is Magic Tree House – Books 17-24 (it just happened so that this particular compilation was av...

A Rainbow Theme Day

Are you ready for St Patrick's Day? Kick off this spring holiday with rainbow activities for preschool age children! This post was ...

What My Child Is Reading – March 19, 2011

Amazon.com Widgets Anna has been reading a lot on her own lately, and often I don’t have a lot of “visibility” into her favorites. So thi...

Week in Review – March 18, 2011

Anna is 4 years 4 months old. We had a lot of fun together this week despite the time change that we collectively hate. Anna is a night ...

More Prehistoric Play

Based on some comments in my first post on Prehistoric Times I brought over an Usborne book Who Were the First People . Anna’s interest i...

How a Seed Grows

Amazon.com Widgets We read a lot of books describing how the plants grow – both fictional and non-fictional. Anna even took How a S...