counting
children count too: census 2010
Every child loves a good game of hide and seek. There are the fun butterflies they get in their tummies when they’re waiting to be discovered and the pride they ...
stringing some o’s
There’s nothing like finding a bag of pretty stale licorice in your pantry to make the ole wheels start to turn. No way it’s been there since September, right? Rather ...
more counting and cooking with cora
Cora has always wanted to help me make dinner, literally since she started toddling around, she’s been my shadow come 5 pm. For a while I tried to fight it; ...
stamping crazy–open grid games
Lately the kids have been on a stamping craze. They’re stamp-happy, stampin’ nutty, and stopping everything to stamp up somethin’. So I thought it would be the ideal time for ...
trying to keep smiling: quick trick, candy countdown
After taking care of three on-and-off sick kiddos for the last three weeks, and after a crazy week of Halloween parties and craziness, I was finally hit with the bug ...
action, action 1, 2, 3!
Owen was nutty today. I honestly think he had enough energy this afternoon to run a marathon. Except that it was raining. Again. And he and Cora were starting to ...
playing cards, playing with numbers
For the last few months–yes, months–Owen has been obsessed with playing War. With any deck of cards, anywhere, any time. It’s probably safe to say that we play the game ...
we’re counting–hats, cats, and pumpkins
My kiddos are Halloween nutty. They love our scarecrows out front, our pumpkins around the house, and the little plastic spider that hangs from a shelf in the kitchen. They ...
hole punch happy
We’ve been hole-punch happy over here lately. Ever since Owen learned how to use it, he’s been unstoppable. At first, using the hole punch was really difficult for Owen; hole ...
summer math f-u-n
Gulp. I just re-opened Maddy’s Kindergarten folder and stumbled across a pretty important little guy–a summer math information sheet and suggested activities. Math does not come naturally to me at ...
not just a plain-jane paper chain
It’s our book chain! And it’s not that plain-jane, really–it’s got some color to it! With summer here and the sunshine calling us outside nearly every free second, I noticed ...
