For some time I’ve been wanting to start recording all the books I check out from the library for M and C. I could have just made a list of them in a Word document but I wanted a way to tag and organize them by categories with some books in multiple categories. [...]
Archive for September, 2007
Booklist in Omni Outliner
Posted in parenting, reading, tagged books, parenthacks on September 29, 2007 | No Comments »
Science Exploration
Posted in homeschool, tagged homeschool, parenting, science on September 29, 2007 | No Comments »
This week we checked out What Makes a Magnet? From the library. It’s part of the Let’s Read and Find Out About Science series which I highly recommend. On Wednesday morning, I usually keep M home from preschool so we can meet some of her friends from the toddler playgroup we used to [...]
Car Survival Kit
Posted in parenting, tagged parenthacks, parenting on September 21, 2007 | No Comments »
I was talking with a friend yesterday about what we keep in our cars so I thought I’d make a list of all the things I’ve found handy to keep in the car:
diapers
wipes
change of clothes for both girls
first aid kit
poison care kit (added after M ate a mushroom in a friend’s yard when she was [...]
This Week’s Books
Posted in chapter books, picture books, reading, tagged books, chapter books, preschool, read-alouds on September 14, 2007 | No Comments »
Since I last posted we’ve done lots of chapter book reading. I’m amazed by M’s capacity to listen to longer and longer stories. I love seeing her face light up at the prospect of reading. Today when I picked up from preschool, I told her that C and I had gotten a [...]
