Sunday 07 March 2010
Last week we received two copies of the same catalogue in the mail. I flipped through the first one, ignored the duplicate and put them both into the recycling. I dredged them back out again though when my daughter asked if she could so some “snipping” with junk mail. While my son napped we had some fun one-on-one time together playing junk mail games. Here’s what we did with our doubled up catalogues:
Game #1 – Can you find…?
We played a simple finding game, with “snipping” of course! We took turns asking questions and cutting out the matching...
Wednesday 03 March 2010 -
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I’m not precious about stuff. Stuff gets old, stuff gets broken, stuff gets lost. It’s all just stuff. I’m usually quick to say, “Never mind. No big deal…” to the kids when accidents happen. Usually. Not this time. I could have cried.
There are very few things in our home which are solely mine, and my laptop is one of them. It got a special mention in my 100th post,...
Monday 01 March 2010 -
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If you’re a parent with young kids, and you’re interested in raising readers – you’ll definitely want to check this out. Literacy Lava is a FREE publication put together by Susan Stephensen (aka The Book Chook) and a bunch of teachers, writers, bloggers and literacy advocates. I have contributed an article on Book Loving Boys to this issue, full of practical suggestions for reading aloud with...
