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Teaching Shakespeare to Your Kids

Apr172017

Reading Shakespeare can seem a bit like a foreign language to both children and parents. Despite having studied (and loved) Shakespeare in college, teaching it has been a bit daunting. I don't want our kids to just read it, muddle through, and not really appreciate it and all the subtleties each work contains. Granted that's true of any piece of literature our children read, but works by … [Continue reading...]

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Ideas for Celebrating Earth Day – Preschool and Kindergarten Community

Apr142017

  Ready for another week of linking up and sharing ideas? I am so glad that you are stopping by today and can’t wait to see what you all have to share this week. Be sure to stop by our PreK & K Pinterest board to see a collection of the different posts we are pinning – including yours! Don’t forget to link up a post (or two) of yours and share what you’ve been working on with your … [Continue reading...]

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Multiplication Worsheets

Apr112017

While our older children are able to use graph paper for their math problems, our youngest struggles with his penmanship size and also the graph paper doesn’t help him quite enough in keeping his numbers in the right column. Even though he may do his math correctly, when it's time to add up the numbers - well, the columns don't line up correctly and mistakes are made. I tried adding lines … [Continue reading...]

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When the Doubts Creep In (and I Feel Like I’ve Ruined My Kids)

Apr102017

This past week we spent a whole lot of time doing nothing. A little bit of cleaning and organizing here and there, but otherwise it was rest and refocusing on what is coming in the last six weeks of school. At one point a friend texted me something that hit a wee bit of a rawness in me, because it echoed many of the doubts that have been circling my mind the last few weeks.  Do you … [Continue reading...]

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Frog Bowling, Pinwheels, 5 Ducks, and Sight Words – Preschool and Kindergarten Community

Apr72017

The weather is warming up, flowers are being to push through and blossom - and I am SO excited to get spring going here! There are some fun spring and Easter ideas beginning to link up, so if you are searching for ideas, be sure to check the links this week! Frog Bowling This frog bowling activity from Lovely Commotion is SO cute, and a great way to recycle some empty … [Continue reading...]

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What I’m Reading (and the Kids too) April 2017

Apr32017

Since the time change this past month, my sleeping has gone all out of whack. For some odd reason, I've been waking up around 3am every morning, so every now and then (if I have trouble falling back asleep), I'll read a bit on my kindle. Between that and two different trips the last two weeks, quite a few books were knocked off my reading list.  One of the books at the top of my list … [Continue reading...]

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