Parks and Playgrounds We found the best park about 10 minutes from our house, its called Nielsen’s Grove. They have a lake with ducks, fountains to swim in, tulip gardens, a safe playground, good parking, covered picnic tables, and lots of empty fields to run in. We brought a picnic dinner, bread for the ducks, and out kites
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My Friends Tigger & Pooh Winnie the Pooh was my favorite cartoon growing up. My Uncle David would call every Saturday morning and ask me, “Did you watch Winnie the Pooh? What was it about?” Christopher Robin, Pooh, Tigger, Kanga, Roo, Eeyore, Piglet, Rabbit…. The new series….I just cannot get over the fact that Christopher
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Letter A Words that Start with A Acorn Airplane Alligator Alphabet Aluminum America Animals Ant Antennae Apple April Art August Author Autumn Music -Make up a song that you sing throughout the week (and review occasionally) about the letter A. Include the sounds the letter makes and words that start with the letter A.
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It’s funny, every mother I talk to has a different opinion on the main children’s clothes stores. So here we go….here are mine. Target Circo Brand—The brand runs small, extremely small for my girls. The clothes are very cute, but cannot be used as hand me downs, because they look very worn after one season.
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Need an energy boost to keep up with the kids? Try this recipe I found. It does not taste to bad, and it works. You take 6 oranges, 2 large grapefruits, 3 lemons, a handful of thyme, and about 1/4 cup of honey. Take the biggest pot you have, juice all the citrus, throw the
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Nature Scavenger Hunt The kids I nannied LOVED when I planned this for them. They were all so different in their likes and dislikes but they ALL enjoyed this. You can make it as elaborate or as simple as you would like.Depending on the age of the children, how long you would like to spend
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Singing With Your Children My daughter sang Twinkle Twinkle Little Star for the first time this week with no help. It almost made me cry, Ok you got me…maybe it did, but just a little It is definitely going down in her baby book. She loves to sing, usually we sing while we make our
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What is one of the single things you as a parent can do that will provide your child with a sense of belonging, connectedness, security, stability, pride in their heritage and family? Family Traditions Creating them now and faithfully repeating them throughout your children’s lives will supply you with many great family memories. Growing up
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This is the recommended reading list I was talking about in the previous post. I don’t remember completely where it came from, I know I have been adding to it for the past couple years Here it is! Alphabet Books ‘A is for Salad’ by Mike Lester ‘Alphabet Adventure’ by Audrey Wood ‘Alphabet City’
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Maisy Big, Maisy Small: A Book of Maisy Opposites by Gina Chen I found this book on a teacher’s recommendation list for teaching opposites. The illustrations are bold, simple, colorful and will catch your child’s eye. Maisy is square/round, tall/short, messy/clean, together/along, many/nothing. My two year old has grasped onto opposites and has some new
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