Fun and useful ideas for modern parents.
We are still counting down the days until Dr. Seuss’ birthday with lots of fun Dr. Seuss books and activities! The last couple of days we have been reading and playing with Green Eggs and Ham and have all been walking around the house quoting Sam-I-am! My kids love book extension activities that are simple… read more »
Dr. Seuss’ birthday is coming up at the end of the month and we have gone Seuss-crazy! He is this month’s Virtual Book Club for Kids featured author and I cannot wait to see all of the Dr. Seuss games and activities that everyone comes up with. We have a bunch of our favorite Dr…. read more »
Today I am teaming up with +Jamie Reimer from hands on: as we grow and +Jackie Higgins from Ready Set Read for a Valentine’s Day for Kids Google Plus Hangout! We’ll be sharing Valentine’s Day themed letter activities for preschoolers–it will be so much fun! It will air LIVE both here and on my G+ profile page… read more »
Many of your favorite bloggers have teamed up to bring you The HUGE Holiday Family Gift Guide featuring over 200 gift ideas for your family! And I’m excited to share some of my top recommendations for board games for kids and families! It was difficult to narrow it down to 10 so I decided to focus on games that fostered… read more »
Beth from Living Life Intentionally has created a follow up to her popular preschool reading program Reading the Easy Way–Reading the Easy Way! 2 …and I was lucky enough to receive a free copy to review! Reading the Easy Way! 2 is a supplemental program for new readers in preschool and kindergarten. It is a… read more »
Good readers need to be able to recall and make sense of, or comprehend, what they read. One of the best ways to increase comprehension in readers of any age is with the Questioning Strategy. In order to better understand the text kids learn how to create teacher-like questions about what they have read…. read more »
The author for this month’s Summer Virtual Book Club for Kids is Kevin Henkes! (amazon affiliate link) We read lots of Kevin Henkes books this month and especially enjoyed the book Birds, which is beautifully illustrated by Laura Dronzek. The book may be simple, but it packed full of fun learning opportunities. In the story Henkes talks… read more »
We had a ton of fun with July’s Summer Virtual Book Club for Kids’ author Audrey Wood. And yes, I know it’s already August. Better late than never! There are so many great books by Audrey Wood and her husband Don, but we became obsessed with the series of books based on the alphabet that she… read more »
This month’s challenge for The Little Book Adventure was to create a game based on a book. When I explained it to my 6 year old she immediately said, “Oh, let’s do a game for Pinkalicious!” They decided that they wanted to make a game where the players pretended to eat food and then turned… read more »
Is anyone else shocked at how fast this summer is flying by? It seems like the last day of school was just yesterday. One of our favorite activities this summer has been doing Camp Whamma Jamma with some of our friends. The mom had asked me if we wanted to participate in a mom-run home summer camp and I couldn’t say… read more »
