Poetry Friday: I Saw A Butterfly Today

Our local nature center has a butterfly exhibit every year from the beginning of July through Labor Day weekend.  M is fascinated by butterflies so we’ve been many times over the summer. Yesterday, we went for our last visit before the exhibit closes, and we stayed until they were ready to close up for the [...]

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Clementine by Sara Pennypacker

Clementine by Sara Pennypacker had been on my potential read-aloud list for a long time so when we noticed it on the library shelf a few weeks ago, we checked it out. M and I both loved it. M laughed aloud a lot, especially every time I read the vegetable names Clementine uses [...]

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Homeschool Days

M’s school starts tomorrow Wednesday. As I explained here, she will be going to a very unique school. The school was started by two moms who had been running a one day a week homeschool enrichment program. Students can attend the school full time, three days/week or one day/week. Having been [...]

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Feed Trouble at Here in the Bonny Glen

Melissa Wiley’s had a feed malfunction at her blog, Here in the Bonny Glen, so if you are a subscriber and you haven’t gotten posts this week, you’ve likely been unsubscribed.  So head on over and resubscribe so you don’t miss any of her great posts! If you’ve not been a subscriber, I highly recommend [...]

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Hoofbeats of Danger by Holly Hughes

When we were at the library last week, M was looking through the racks of paperback series books and discovered the American Girls History Mysteries series.  She picked out Hoofbeats of Danger by Holly Hughes because of the horse on the cover and asked if we could check it out.  I had read a few [...]

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August Carnival of Children’s Literature

The August Carnival of Children’s Literature is up at Chicken Spaghetti.  I can’t wait to make my way through all the great offerings.  Click on over and check it out!

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Our Week At The Beach

We just returned from a week at Sunset Beach, North Carolina.  Both girls thoroughly loved the sand and the ocean.  C had no fear at all of the waves resulting in many cries of “Baby in the ocean” as we ran to get her.
When she wasn’t running into the waves.  C sat at the water’s [...]

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The 100 Species Challenge

Melissa Wiley posted this week about the 100 Species Challenge which was originally proposed in this post by scsours. Participants take as long as they need to identify 100 species of vegetation that grow within walking distance of their home. Through our gardening efforts over the last two years, our family has learned [...]

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My Ever-Growing TBR List

I love lists. I make them constantly, on paper and on the computer. To do lists, shopping lists, packing lists (I have a folder of these for various occasions), wish lists, but my most favorite kind of lists are book lists. I have a long list of books to be read which [...]

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Picture Books About the Beach

We’re heading to the beach this weekend so we’ve been doing lots of picture book reading about the beach, the ocean, and sea creatures.   I wanted to list some of the titles we’ve enjoyed.  I’ve divided them into fiction and non-fiction but many of them walk the boundary between the two.  In other words, they [...]

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