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December Book-a-Day 9: Russell’s Christmas Magic

Each day in December we will be sharing one of our favorite Christmas storybooks and an activity to go along. (Affiliate link included for your convenience.)  If, like me, you think some of the best parts of Christmas are lights and glitter, then this book is for you! BookRussell's Christmas

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December Book-a-Day 7: Who’ll Pull Santa’s Sleigh

Each day in December we will be sharing one of our favorite Christmas storybooks and an activity to go along. (Affiliate link included for your convenience.)  Santa's reindeer are sick! With Christmas Eve right around the corner, what's a jolly old elf to do? Audition some replacements, of course! Book

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December Book-a-Day 5: The Baker’s Dozen

Each day in December we will be sharing one of our favorite Christmas storybooks and an activity to go along. (Affiliate link included for your convenience.)  Saint Nicholas Day is tomorrow, December 6th. In our family we are visited by Sinterklaas (from the Netherlands) on the night of December 5th.

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December Book-a-Day 4: Christmas Cookies

Each day in December we will be sharing one of our favorite Christmas storybooks and an activity to go along. (Affiliate link included for your convenience.)  Book   Amy Krouse Rosenthal's Christmas Cookies: Bite-Size Holiday Lessons is a particularly darling holiday read. The illustrations by Jane Dyer are so very

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December Book-a-Day 3: Christmas (Robert Sabuda)

Each day in December we will be sharing one of our favorite Christmas storybooks and an activity to go along. (Affiliate link included for your convenience.)  Book Robert Sabuda has gorgeous pop-up books that you children are sure to love. He has several Christmas books that you will definitely want

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December Book-a-Day 2: Gingerbread Baby

Each day in December we will be sharing one of our favorite Christmas storybooks and an activity to go along. (Affiliate link included for your convenience.)  BookIf you are not familiar with Jan Brett's beautiful children's books, then you are missing out. Gingerbread Baby is one of my favorites. The

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Happy December!

It's December already?? We apologize for the unscheduled blog break but we're back with lots of fun ideas for the month ahead. We're cooking up something really fun and you'll want to check back later tonight to see it. In the meantime, I found some really fun online activities from

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December Book-a-Day 1: Counting To Christmas

Each day in December we will be sharing one of our favorite Christmas storybooks and an activity to go along. (For your convenience, affiliate links included.) BookCounting to Christmas by Nancy Tafuri appealed to me because of the pictures. The text is very brief: "Days 1, 2, and 3 I

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Wednesday Words– Synonym Turkeys

The third grade at my school does Synonym Turkeys every year. The students choose a word and write it on the turkeys' bodies. Then they look up their words in the thesaurus and write synonyms on the feathers (sometimes with correct spelling, sometimes without. 🙂 ) My favorite was this

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Toddler Tuesday: I Am Thankful for My Family

If you ask a toddler who their favorite person is, their answer is bound to be a member of their family: dad, grandma, big brother. Thanksgiving is a great time to teach toddlers about being thankful for their family members. Everybody in the family is special! Model your thinking to

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