Art Activity with Ghosts in the House

Happy Halloween Everyone!!!! We’ve been reading Ghosts in the House by Kazuno Kohara several times every day for the last week.  We all love the quirky story and the fun black, orange, and white art. Inspired by a Ghosts in the House art project at Journey Into Unschooling, I came up with a simplified art [...]

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Now We Are Six: A Witchy Celebration

M turned 6 last week and we celebrated last weekend with several of her friends. We were torn between a cooking themed party and a witch themed party so we combined the two.  We started the afternoon with the girls gathered around the table helping to make pizza dough. While the dough rose, we rolled [...]

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Cybils Book Reviews, October 27

Three books from the Elephant and Piggie Series by Mo Willems have been nominated in the Cybils Easy Reader and Short Chapter book category. We’ve enjoyed all the books we’ve read in this series.  They were the first books M read on her own.  The text is quite simple and repetitive, but the repetition often [...]

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Non-Fiction Monday: What Makes A Magnet?

What Makes A Magnet? by Franklyn Branley is another title from the excellent Let’s-Read-and-Find-Out Science series. M and I checked it out and did several of the suggested experiments a few years ago, but she remembered it recently and asked me to get it again.  She’s been wanting to do some magnet experimen,t but she [...]

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Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, The Movie

My husband and I finally got a chance to see Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince this weekend while my parents were visiting and willing to babysit.  It was on at Asheville Pizza, so we got to eat dinner and enjoy a party atmosphere complete with prizes thrown into the audience and a drawing. After [...]

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What We’re Reading This Week, October 22

M had a big week.  She realized she was ready to start reading some short chapter books on her own.  So she’s been reading Dolphins at Daybreak and Lions at Lunchtime, both part of the Magic Tree House series. I read Surprise Island, the second book in the Boxcar Children series to her, and now [...]

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You’re Never Too Old for Picture Books

When I write What We’re Reading This Week posts, I typically talk about chapter books I’m reading to M and picture books I’m reading to C. I realized I may be giving the false impression that I rarely read picture books to M now that we are engrossed in the world of chapter books.  That [...]

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Activities with Angus Lost

C picked out Angus Lost by Marjorie Flack at the library last week and has been asking me to read it every chance she’s gotten since.  She is completely in love with Dog Lost as she calls it, and she now refers to her gray stuffed Scottie dog as Gray Angus. M and I also [...]

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Non-Fiction Monday: Reign of the Sea Dragons

I picked up Reign of the Sea Dragons by Sneed B. Collard  from the New Arrivals shelf at our library. I thought M would enjoy the descriptions of prehistoric sea creatures and their evolution since she is fascinated by large creatures of the sea and dinosaurs.  The inside cover has shows a scaled comparison of [...]

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Collage-Style Fall Trees – A stART Project

A Mommy’s Adventures hosts a wonderful feature called stART (Story + Art = A Great Start).  Hop over there to see lots of other story and art activities. C has been asking for many re-readings of The Little Yellow Leaf by Carin Berger.  (As often as you will let her, she will tell you emphatically [...]

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