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best of teach mama countdown: #3 shoe-tying

January 11, 2012

Teaching some kids how to tie their shoes is so not easy, it’s not even funny. While one child may teach herself how to do it, for another child, it may take time and time and time again for her to actually learn how to tie those shoelaces on her own. Maddy was a great [...]

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best of teach mama countdown: #6 — learning with recyclables

January 7, 2012

One of these days I’m going to share where and how we store the recyclables that we manage to save from the big blue bin over here. But until then, I’ll share the #6 most popular teach mama post of all-time: how to use recyclables with kids–get fun, crafty, creative. I think people have responded [...]

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best of teach mama countdown: #7 — me on the map

January 6, 2012

This activity is one that my kids still see every day because the circles are hanging in our Work Room, and it’s one that we talk about frequently. That is absolutely not to say that my children have a firm understanding of their little place in this big world, but I’m trying. It’s a really [...]

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teachmama’s best of 2011: mine and yours!

January 2, 2012

A few of my favorite bloggy buddies and I have decided to do a little reflecting before moving forward with 2012. We thought that beginning the year by sharing our personal favorite post from 2011 would be a cool to celebrate our collective awesomeness in a very big way. And I mean our, as in [...]

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making the most of holiday clean-up

December 31, 2011

The holidays have rushed in and rushed out over here, and despite a 7+ hour ride home from Pennsylvania and two people down over three days with the stomach bug, we had an amazing season. And now that we’re home and trying–desperately–to reclaim our home and have a little fun, rather than throwing the kids [...]

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quick trick: what to do with holiday cards

December 30, 2011

We’re huge fans of holiday cards around here. Actually, we’re huge fans of all types of cards.  We love to use them for cutting practice, arts and crafts, and even Valentines cards. But the cards that my kiddos seem to look forward to most are the cards with pictures of our friends’ and family members’ [...]

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our easy, affordable new year’s family traditions

December 29, 2011

My husband and I have never really been fans of New Year’s Eve. We’re the furthest thing from night owls, so staying up late is not easy–or that much fun for us. New Year’s means that the long-awaited holidays are over (boo) and that family has come and gone (wah) and that there’s a lot [...]

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new for us friday: homemade scratch-off tickets (fun stocking stuffers!)

December 16, 2011

It’s been a busy few days–weeks!–with our December birthday and work and school and holiday festivities, but I’m totally over the moon excited to share something fun and completely new-for-me. And on Christmas, when Maddy, Owen, and Cora open up their stockings, they’ll find something totally new-for-them: Homemade Scratch-off tickets! These scratch-off tickets are filled [...]

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magazines rock: creative, crafty, sneaky-learning fun

December 4, 2011

We are huge magazine fans over here. We love finding them in the mailbox, reading them, playing detective with them, crafting with them, and learning with them.  When they arrive in the day’s mail, it’s like a getting a little gift, just for you.  And when we sit down to read a magazine, it never [...]

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we teach: holiday learning eBook — free, fab, filled with ideas

October 17, 2011

Hip, hip, HOORAY!!  The we teach holiday learning eBook is hot off the presses! Filled with fabulous ideas from over 30 brilliant members of our forum, the holiday learning eBook is FREE to all members of we teach and we’re sure you’ll find something worthwhile that you can use either for home or classroom holiday [...]

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simple, pretty, totally easy, blinged-out ballet bag

September 14, 2011

My tiny Cora is all about fancy. She loves sparkles, glitter, ribbons, nail polish, and jewels. So when it came time for her to gather her things for her brand spankin-new activity, learning all the right moves at her Hip, Tap, Toe dance class, she shook her head big-time when I showed her the bag [...]

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under a shady tree
can you feel the soft cool grass?
can you feel it with your toes?
we can sit here while it grows.
laurie berkner, "under a shady tree"


i know nothing with certainty but the sight of the stars makes me dream
. . . vincent van gogh