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2nd Grade Homework

Soooo homework.  Yeah.  Isn’t that a tricky subject?  After a dozen years of teaching here is my philosophy on homework. The general rule is 10 minutes of homework for every grade level.  That would be 20 minutes for 2nd grade.  I don’t include reading at home when I’m talking about

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our favorite apps

Adelaide at 20 months My 2 year old, Adelaide, loves our ipad. We got it last summer when she was 17 months old and she was interested in it immediately. I was amazed at the incredible apps there are out there, even for a child as young as she was

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dinosaur birthday party

I shared a little peek at our friend Beckham's birthday party when I posted about Adelaide's Sesame Street party. Why? Because Beckham and Adelaide actually had a "conjoined" party because we needed to have them on the same day and were inviting the same people. There has been interest in

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a sesame street birthday

I thought I'd share a peek at Adelaide's 2nd birthday party. It was a joint birthday party with her little friend who was turning 2. Addie's theme was Sesame Street while her friend's was dinosaur themed. We had a build your own picnic lunch. I designed the confetti pattern for

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Our Rain Gutter Shelves

I've shown our book shelves here before but I realized I never really explained them so let me tell you a bit about our rain gutter book shelves. As I mentioned in the previous post, Adelaide doesn't usually have a long attention span for books, unless they are board books

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A Birthday Book for Addie

Both Heidi and I are suckers for children’s books. We both have amassed HUGE collections (though a lot of mine is in the basement at my parents’ house!) Still I find the need to pick out special books for Adelaide on occassion. Both at Christmas and on her birthday I

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we heart pinterest

There’s been a lot of discussion lately about Pinterest and I’ve found it fascinating to read and discuss. Some bloggers would prefer not to have their content on Pinterest, but we are not one of those bloggers! We LOVE Pinterest and consider ourselves a “Pinterest Friendly Blog.” We appreciate it

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Freebie Words Their Way Game

There is a newer Words Their Way post with more information. Click to see it now. Earlier this week I was looking through some of our Words Their Way posts and noticed that we gave away the game "Smackdown" but the link to the download was buried in another post

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Weekly Kids Co-Op Link Up Party

I can’t believe I haven’t posted anything new this week. It’s been a crazy week as my husband’s receiving his post medical-school residency assignment today (THIS MORNING!) and it’s exciting and terrifying at the same time. Heidi’s been buried under parent teacher conference work. But I promise we’ll have new

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Weekly Kids Co-Op Link Up Party

Sorry it’s been so quiet around here lately! I’ve been out of town and up to my eyeballs in projects (that you’re going to love!)I haven’t been planning as many activities as I’d like for Adelaide but it turns out sometimes I come up with something decent on the fly.

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Dr. Seuss Busy Bag

We’re sneaking in under the wire with this one, but here is a Dr. Seuss number game with two levels of play. The first is basic counting practice.  You’ll need a copy of the hat/stripes and a die.  (Download the file here: Download Dr seuss hat.) The kiddo rolls the

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