Meeting Our Caterpillars
Our caterpillars arrived almost a week ago and the boys were VERY excited to meet them! Cousin O was over when they were delivered so he also got to observe the tiny, fuzzy, critters.
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A Color of His Own (Camouflage Art)
M was so excited to wake up and find his cousin O here yesterday morning! It was a dreary, rainy sort of day (much like today) and I knew the boys would need something to keep them occupied after exhausting the majority of toys in the house. Being a teacher, and a lover of literature, my immediate impulse was to find a picture book and create an activity around it. M and I have been talking a bit about camouflage lately, and how it helps keep animals safe from predators, so when I spotted Leo Lionni’s A Color of His Own, I knew it would be the perfect book to devise a quick, hands-on lesson around.
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For Mother’s Day brunch, M helped me paint these cute, little ladybug rocks to put on the kids’ plates.
Read MoreA’s Angry Birds Birthday Party!
When my sister first told me she had invited around twenty kids to A’s 6th B-day party, I thought for sure she had lost her mind! Twenty kids? Not to mention it was a drop-off-stay-if-you-like party! How was she possibly going to entertain twenty kids for two hours? Then I remembered she’s a teacher; She has to keep more kids than that engaged in curriculum-based instruction, cooped up in a classroom most of the day, for approximately thirty hours a week… she was going to be fine.
Read More“If You Give a Mom a Muffin” for Mother’s Day!
My kids really enjoy the If You Give a Mouse a Cookie series by Laura Joffe Numeroff. If you haven’t introduced these humorous books to your children, or students, I highly recommend that you do. They are light, funny, and follow the pattern of a circle story (a story that ends where it begins) making them perfect for writing examples. I personally enjoy the spontaneous, easily sidetracked, personalities of Numeroff’s characters. I’m pretty certain every mom, and teacher, can relate to these characters at some level, I know I do! Especially since becoming a mom, my house seems to be littered with half-finished projects and remnants of previous distractions; kids are masterminds when it comes to creating multiple diversions!
Read MoreDIY Painted Mugs for Mother’s Day
These DIY painted mugs are the perfect addition to the “If You Give a Mom a Muffin” theme we are creating for Mother’s Day this year. They were surprisingly simple to make, and each one is uniquely personalized for the special moms in our life. I made two types of painted mugs for each mom, plus an extra ladybug fingerprint mug for my bugs to give to their Nana.
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