What My Child Is Reading – July 30, 2011

Amazon.com Widgets Our FIAR choice this week was Gramma’s Walk by Anna Grossnickle Hines. It was an interesting book in concept, but...

Week In Review – July 29, 2012

In our lives… We had a great and full weekend with two terrific “field trips” – to the ocean and to Big Basin State Park. Anna loved t...

Holier Than Thou?

You missed a “hot topic post” from me, didn’t you? Well, here it comes. Some time ago I was reading one of “Level A” blogs in my reader Our ...

Weekend Snapshots – July 23-24, 2012

Saturday was for Ocean…     Anna kept saying how the sand on the beach is so different than the playground sand… No encouragement was ...

What My Child Is Reading – July 23, 2012

Amazon.com Widgets I admit that I have never heard of Night of the Moonjellies or its author Mark Shasha   before finding this book i...

Week in Review – July 22, 2012

In our lives… I am cheating a little and writing this post on Wednesday, since I know that I will be in very long all-day meetings at wor...

StArt – Mister Seahorse

Guided art with preschoolers can be a lot of fun. Here is a project from my 4 year old that was inspired by Eric Carle's book Mr Seaho...

Weekend Snapshots

Wow, ocean!   This star fish feels rough and bumpy… Let’s go and see seahorses!   Wish granted… I can do this pizza dough all by ...

What My Child Is Reading – July 16, 2012

For the past 2 weeks we are trying Five in a Row (FIAR) approach at home while continuing to read wide variety of books. Interestingly,...