The illustrations in The Rainbow Goblins, by Ul De Rico, are absolutely stunning. We spent a lot of time looking at all the details while talking about the story. It is also just a wonderful story about seven goblins who try to try to steal a rainbow to eat it's colors. Nature is able to … Continue reading The Rainbow Goblins
A Rainbow of My Own, by Don Freeman, is a sweet story about a boy who sees a rainbow and wishes to one day have a rainbow of his own to play with. When he gets home he is surprised to find he indeed does a rainbow in his own room. One of Big Kid's … Continue reading A Rainbow of My Own
Based on the song by Judy Collins, Over the Rainbow, illustrated by Eric Puybaret, is a visually stunning, magical rainbow read, perfect for us this week. We read the book, listened to the song, and read the book again. At Christmas Big Kid loved all the illustrated Christmas Carols, and she enjoyed this one just … Continue reading Over the Rainbow
We are starting off the week learning about rainbows with All the Colors of the Rainbow, a nonfiction book about how rainbows form, why rainbows occur, and all the different colors they dazzle us with. We will be doing a very simple activity both Little and Big Kid can get involved with, do-a-dot markers. Big … Continue reading All the Colors of the Rainbow
We've had some spring-like days recently, so we're very excited to be celebrating the Spring Equinox with Exploring Nature With Children this week. I was able to grab some books about spring from the library before it closed today. These are the spring books we love. Goodbye Winter, Hello Spring by Kenard Park - We … Continue reading Vernal (Spring) Equinox
It appears we may be home for a while, so of course I went straight to the library yesterday and tried to check out as many books as I could on a few different topics. Next week I plan on doing some rainbow activities with my kiddos in celebration of St. Patrick's Day, and because … Continue reading Rainbows
Later this spring, frogs around NJ will lay their eggs in shallow water near ponds. These eggs will hatch and become tadpoles, which are so fun to watch grow and change. One year in my classroom we got tadpoles and the kids loved checking on them every day to see how they were changing. It's … Continue reading Spring Pond Study – Frogs
There are so many beautiful, informative, and just plain fun books about ducks we used to talk about ponds at the beginning of this week. Unfortunately there were no ducks at the pond we visited today, but we'll be ready when there are. These are some books worth checking out: Make Way for Ducklings by … Continue reading Spring Pond Study – Ducks
Big Kid is loving rocks lately. They are learning about rocks and fossils at school and this love has carried over to home and the world around us. You can see what we've been reading about dinosaurs and an awesome female paleontologist here. My mom came for a visit this weekend and brought some of … Continue reading Rocks
Next week is Spring Pond Week in Exploring Nature With Children. Spring at the pond is so exciting! There are so many changes going on both in the water, and along the banks. There are tadpoles and ducklings, fish eggs and goslings. Over the next few days I'm going to highlight books about different things … Continue reading Pond Week
Why We Read It: I love watching Little Kid play! She is almost 1 and loves to just tinker with things. She plays with blocks, nesting jars, Magnatiles, Lego Duplo, and any lose parts she can find. She tries to fit things inside other things, screw lids on, make blocks stick together, and has started … Continue reading Wordless Book Wednesday – Changes, Changes
It's March, and Big Kid is excited for St. Patrick's Day. She helped me decorate the house with shamrocks and green everything recently, and I finally pulled our St. Patrick's Day Books out of storage. I know there are a lot of great St. Patrick's Day books for older kids, a few in particular by … Continue reading Free St. Patrick’s Day Booklist Up Now!
I just finished The Winter's Tale by William Shakespeare as part of The Literary Life Podcast 20 for 2020 Reading Challenge. I finally feel like I understood, appreciated, and got a lot out of a Shakespeare play! It took a lot of work. I'm kind of embarrassed to say I have a degree in English. … Continue reading The Winter’s Tale – Shakespeare
Big Kid has been learning about Claude Monet at preschool, meaning his art is displayed and one of the art projects she can choose to do is inspired by his painting "Waterlilies and Japanese Bridge". I like to extend what she's doing at school when possible. The Usborne Art Treasury has made that easy! There … Continue reading Claude Monet
Why We Read It: Big Kid is learning about rocks and fossils at school this month. She has been very interested in the unit, so I found this great biography of a woman paleontologist so she could see what paleontologists do and how a women can make great scientific discoveries. The Story: When Sue Found … Continue reading Fearless Female Book Friday – When Sue Found Sue
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