I love to take the girls to the Butterfly Place. They love it there. I did a trip review of it last year.. We have taken two trips this year already. Both trips we saw and did different things. You never know what you will see on a trip there. Out first trip we saw…
The first 5 days of the Reading Challenge have passed. How have you been doing? The girls and I have been enjoying doing a little extra reading. We read spring and baseball books this week. Plus started back into reading chapter books. The girls enjoy having books read to them. I also encourage them to…
I’ve joined another Virtual Book Club for the girls. This one is call Poppins Book Nook! Every month I and several other blogs will be posting about a subject. This give lots of different books that people could do! I did not get a chance to announce about it last month. I got busy and…
If you missed our March’s Virtual Book Club for Kids, April is a great time to join up. This month we are doing David Shannon! He is another new author for me. I have seen his books at the library. So we will be checking out a lot of them soon! Here are some of…
Reading is something we all should be doing. Reading with out kids is very important. They learn a lot with reading. Over the next month the challenge from Royal Baloo and 3 Dinosaurs is to read at least 30 minutes a day with your kids. Yes, I know that March was National Reading Month. I…
This month I went looking for ABC books for my new ABC Packs that will be coming out. The Turn-Around, Upside-Down Alphabet Book by Lisa Campbell Ernst is one of my favorite books! This is about turning the book and looking at different ways the letter could be. It takes is a lot of creative…
We read the book The Easter Egg by Jan Brett . We love the story of the different types of eggs. They all showed everyone personality and how everyone has different talents as well. No one needs to make the same type of egg. After reading the book we made tissue paper Easter Eggs. What…
Spring started on March 20th this year! Here are some Spring Reading Charts that are like the Summer, Fall and Winter Reading Charts! Each season so far I have challenged my girls to read 100 different books. Spring came much faster than I guessed it would. I was not prepared for how fast winter went…
A fun tissue paper craft that works for A Medieval theme and Valentine’s. We read this fun book and make a craft to go with the book. You can do this craft with kids of different ages. Kiss That Missed Craft We made a craft to go with a book. A kiss that flew through…
We read the book Mrs. Spitzer’s Garden by Edith Pattou. This is a fun book about how your grow flowers. We loved this book last year and still do this year. The girls wanted to read it again. I pulled it out of the Spring box and we had fun! After reading the book we…
This month for the Virtual Book Club we read The Snail and the Whale by Julia Donaldson. It was fun to talk about where the whale and the snail went. Everything they saw on their journey. We pointed out what our favorite parts where. Rose liked the drawing on the board at school. Mary liked…
We read the book Hooray for St. Patrick’s Day! (Lift-the-Flap, Puffin). After we finished reading the book we look through again for all the clovers we could find. They girls liked seeing them all over in the book. What you need: paper plate, green paint, and paper. First we talked about what we were doing…
We read St. Patrick’s Day by Gial Gibbons. This is a book about St. Patrick’s and why the day is celebrated. The girls loved the book. After reading the book we traced 4 leaf clovers. What you need: lids, green paint, q-tips and Clover Tracing. First they outlined the clover. Then they painted part of…
If you missed our February’s Virtual Book Club for Kids, March is a great time to join up. This month we are doing Julia Donaldson! She is pretty much a new author to me. We have Room on the Broom but have not read any of her other books. If you have suggestions for me…
Here are the February books I found and really liked. Some are new and some are older books. It is always fun to see new books! Which ones do you like the best? Red Car, Red Bus by Susan Steggall is a great book about cars and colors. You can learn cars and trucks along…
We love Gross motor and book activities and this is one of our favorite ways to get moving! Plus is is a fun Dr. Seuss Activity as well. So get up and get moving with reading the ABCs! You get more than 26 gross motor ideas for kids to do! Each page is loads of…
Looking for some fun dragon books to read. You can learn about dragons in many different ways with this book. And they work great to read at any time. Here are some of the dragon books that helps inspire the Medieval Pack. I hope you enjoy them as much as we do! Dragon Books to…
We read Snowy Valentine by David Petersen. I love this book because it points out that we don’t have to give complex gifts to someone we love. You can do simple gifts. After the book was read we did q-tip heart tracing. What you need: Heart Tracing from the Valentines Pack part 3, q-tips and…
If you missed our January’s Virtual Book Club for Kids, February is a great time to join up. This month we are doing Dr. Seuss! This is a favorite at our house hold! Here are some of the great books you can read by Dr. Seuss. Amazon.com Widgets If you’re interested in joining this month’s…
Each month I pick out books we found at the library or the books store that we all loved and let you know what they were. It is a fun process and has my girls always looking for new and different books when we go to the library. This month was exploring the new books…
I love adding gross motor and other activities together. And this is a great activity for counting, gross motor and fine motor all at the same time. This week we have been doing the Gross Motor challenge slightly differently. We have been using books. It changes up what you are doing and makes it fun….
This month for the Virtual Book Club we read Mole Music (Live Oak Music Makers) by David McPhail and played musical instruments and listened to music. What you need: Computer to connect to YouTube, and instruments. We watched some videos of people playing instruments: The Piano Guys, LSO performs ‘Mothership’ (with example improvisers), and Shenandoah…
If you missed our December Virtual Book Club for Kids, January is a great time to join up. This month we are doing David McPhail! This is a new Author for me. I’m looking forward to seeing what books I can find! Here are some of the great books you can read by David McPhail….
Each month I pick out books we found at the library or the books store that we all loved and let you know what they were. It is a fun process and has my girls always looking for new and different books when we go to the library. Here is what we found this month….
We have included links to some of the products and resources we have used with this activity. If you purchase via the links we may earn a small commission. This is a great addition to the winter activities on the site. I was asked to do a round up of the winter books that I’ll…
Winter start on Friday December 21! Here are some Winter Reading Charts that are like the Summer and Fall Reading Charts! Each season so far I have challenged my girls to read 100 different books. I made these printables for them. So far Summer, Fall and now Winter is made. We plan on doing one…
This month we read Mossy by Jan Brett for the Virtual Book Club for Kids. Yes, I know she has a lot of Holiday books but I wanted to do one that was not holiday to show some of the different books she has! What you need: green construction paper, white paper, flower foam stickers,…
A fun menorah craft for kids to make for Hanukkah that has a great book that you can read as well. You can read the book and make this great craft. This is a great addition to the Hanukkah Crafts on the site. We have included links to some of the products and resources we…
We have included links to some of the products and resources we have used with this activity. If you purchase via the links we may earn a small commission. This is a great addition to the Hanukkah activities on the site. I have been exploring Hanukkah with the girls. It has been a great fun….
If you missed our November Virtual Book Club for Kids, December is a great time to join up. This month we are doing Jan Brett! She is one of my favorite authors! Here are some of the great books you can read by Jan Brett. Amazon.com Widgets If you’re interested in joining this month’s book…