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new for us friday: Tangled Tag Book and Explorer Game (& giveaways!)
Thank you to all who entered. This giveaway closed 2/25/11; the winners were chosen via random.org and were notified. Thank you!! We are huge fans of the LeapFrog brand ...
super snow day crafts: sock puppets!
Cora has fallen hard for her Laura Joffe Numeroff mini-library that arrived under our Christmas tree this year (and who wouldn’t?). Although we’ve had her books for years now, we’ve ...
remembering the importance of pretend play
The Red Checks Restaurant was up and running over here for the last few days, serving up its famous chicken noodle soup, corn, pizza, sandwiches, eggs, and chicken legs. Wearing ...
target’s read with me (with iPad and children’s books giveaway!)
Many thanks for the enthusiastic response to this giveaway. The contest is now closed, and random.org #105 was chosen, notified, and confirmed. Congratulations, Laura in Illinois! When I learned about ...
just 1 book: author guest post–tara mcclintick (and book giveaway)
I’m so excited to share an especially interesting just 1 book guest post by a fellow educator and author, Tara McClintick. Tara shares the way that one book helped shape ...
playing turkey feathers: matching beginning sounds
Today I brought out one of my old Words Their Way favorites–Turkey Feathers. It’s a really simple game that I used with students to practice long vowel patterns, but any ...
family paper roll dolls: a silly way to help teach emotions (and giveaway!)
Thanks to Scotch(R) Double Sided Tape for sponsoring my writing about crafts. Add your comment below to be entered for a chance to win free sample rolls to help with ...
new for us friday: ‘take the cake’ game (and giveaway!)
I wanted to jump for joy when my friends at Gamewright sent us Take The Cake, a perfect game for younger ones. We’ve been playing it for three weeks ...
trace, copy, recall–learn those spelling words!
Maddy has been so proud of her spelling and word-learning progress over the last few weeks (and so are we!). She really is borderline excited when I print out a ...
playing with candy: candy experiments (part one)
With three overly-tired kids and three pumpkins full of Halloween candy, I knew that I had to be extra creative if I wanted Maddy, Owen, and Cora to do anything ...
new for us friday: when talking to kids about cancer
This New For Us Friday I’m sharing a little something new to me and a little something new for all of the Yahoo! Mother Board Members: Yahoo! Shine and our ...
