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Preschool Activity: Playing Veterinarian
August 27, 2011
Gresham LOVES dogs - real dogs, stuffed dogs, books about dogs... He is planning to have a dog themed birthday party when he turns 5 in October! This week, we…
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Preschool Activity: Playing Restaurant
August 11, 2011
Today in Gresham's Sonlight Curriculum, we learned about the different jobs at a hotel in the book Things People Do. I decided to add an activity to go along with…
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Favorite Picture Books, Part 2
April 19, 2011
Last month I shared some of our favorite picture books, and I have some more to add to the list! If you missed the first post on picture books for…
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Pinecone Bird Feeder
January 19, 2011
We are studying birds in our science curriculum (which we absolutely love!), and when we came to an experiment in which we compare two different bird seeds, we decided to…
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Preschool Alphabet Game: Matching Capitals and Lowercase
January 5, 2011
Today, Gresham and I matched capital letters with lowercase letters using cards from an alphabet Go Fish game. I like this card set because the capital card has an adult…
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Handprint Turkeys
November 19, 2010
After I wrote the title of this post, I decided that these aren't exactly handprints. But hand-outline turkeys didn't sound very cute. So I'm calling them handprint turkeys. I guess…
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Tape Roadways for Hot Wheels Cars
November 12, 2010
This afternoon, I needed to have a few minutes of peace while I ironed some clothes and got ready for a school fundraiser tonight. I remembered this fun activity on…
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Fun Things to do with Acorns!
November 2, 2010
I have been wanting some acorns to decorate with (being as how fall has just arrived in Texas...), and so my boys and I went to the park last week…
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Guess the Sound Game
October 23, 2010
Today we have are having torrential rain in north Texas! The boys were getting rather wild, and I decided that they needed something to do. We got the idea for…
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Frugal Building Activity: Cup Stacking
October 18, 2010
When we went to the science museum last weekend, they had one room devoted to building activities for older kids. Their activities were simple and yet genius - I was…
