June 2009

Summer Repeats

Hello there! The last few days have been crazy hot here. We’ve been heading outside first thing in the morning to take advantage of the cooler air, then holing up inside the house for the rest of the day. Here’s a few fun summer activities from the archives to keep you (and us!) busy on [...]

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Summer Journals

Are your kiddos journaling this summer? I am a huge proponent of writing – I think it is a crucial component of becoming a “good reader.” My girls love to write in journals and notebooks. It is so neat to watch them go from scribbles to more detailed pictures to scribble-writing to sentences! My six-year-old [...]

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Ready, aim…

…BLAST! The girls received these water blaster tubes at a birthday party over the weekend. They are basically a giant syringe with great blasting power! They played with them for at least an hour, first watering all the plants and then each other. I love the simplicity – easy to use, no frustration. Fill – [...]

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Something fishy…

Happy Monday! Hope all the dads and grandpas had a lovely Father’s Day yesterday. The girls helped me plan a backyard camp-out dinner and dessert. The menu was turkey hot dogs and bratwurst, watermelon, potato chips, and lemonade. For dessert, we made S’more Cookie Bars – YUM! (I got the recipe from the Hershey website.) [...]

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Summer Fun Bag #2: Letter Writing Kit

Here’s another one of our Summer Fun Bags – a letter and card-writing kit. My girls love sending (and receiving!) mail, but we often forget about this activity. Hopefully this little kit will remind us! I simply gathered up odds and ends of cards, stickers, envelopes, etc. from around the house. I also included a [...]

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Lazy Summer Lunches

This post could have been called ‘Encouraging Independence in the Kitchen’ or ‘Lunches Young Kids Can Make,’ but let’s be honest – I am simply feeling lazy about fixing lunches now that summer vacation has hit our house! Here are some ideas that are working for us, and many of them do have the added [...]

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Summer Fun Bag #1: Tangrams

The thing I love most about summer is that my kids get to have those long unstructured blocks of playtime that they need and crave. However, I know I will hear, “There’s nothing to do…” more than once! In the interest of being proactive, I’m putting together some Summer Fun Bags – ziploc bags filled [...]

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Birdseed Cookies

Let me start by saying that about two minutes into this project, I was pretty sure it was going to be a flop. But, we persevered and our birdseed cookies actually turned out, so there you go! I wish I remembered where I got this recipe from – it is scribbled on a sticky note [...]

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Fun with Familiar Songs

During this past school year, I had so much fun being the music docent in my daughter’s kindergarten class. We had a great time singing together, listening to some orchestra music, learning the names of instruments, and dancing. Since many of the songs listed in our kindergarten music curriculum were familiar songs that most of [...]

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