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Presidents’ Day activities (Poppins Book Nook)
Last week was Preident’s Day, and being the homeschooling Mom that I am, I totally forgot it was until about 4:00 on Monday when I was talking with a public school Mom about having her kids home for...
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Vacation journal for kids
This month the theme for Poppins Book Nook is “Planes, Trains, and Automobiles,” I’d planned this big long Lego building theme, and then my entire family taking turns getting sick, and an emergency...
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Starting Project Based Learning with Aesop’s Fables
Lately I’ve been reading a bunch of posts about independent learning projects, in particular “Questions about project based learning” and this whole series of project based learning posts (there’s a...
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Indian in the Cupboard Activities
I’m going to admit my The Indian in the Cupboard activities are a bit of a stretch for the Great Outdoors theme, but I keep thinking about the chapters with Omri taking Little Bear out in his backyard...
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When I grow up writing assignment
I have to admit I struggled for this month’s Poppins Book Nook idea. When I grow up is a hard one because my kids’ ideas are all unlikely. Their current plan is to open a breakfast restaurant...
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Using picture books to teach writing
Several years ago I mentioned using picture books to teach writing, but I wanted to show you a specific lesson so you can better understand the why’s and how’s of using picture books this way. And...
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Journey to Mars
My son Batman is obsessed with space, he’s the entire reason we are studying astronomy this year. For the past several years he’s been checking out a book called,Touchdown Mars!(affiliate link), and...
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Cooking Around the World
As some of you know for the past couple of years I’ve been participating in Around the World in 12 Dishes, and I’ve rather fallen off the cart these past few months as I just lost enthusiasm and...
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The science behind jello
Everyone loves jello, I mean most of us who grew up in America in the 80s or 90s can sing part of the ad, and may be thinking J-E-L-L-O in a somewhat deep voice. But do you know the science behind...
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Writing inspired by Laura Numeroff
As a teacher, I loved working with Laura Numeroff’s books. The kids loved listening to her books and the antics of the different animals. My second year teaching I got a stuffed animal of her Mouse...
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