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Project Monday: Child’s Montessori Apron

November 28, 2011 1 comment
child's montessori apron

This entry is part of a series, Project Mondays» A little over a month ago Mrs. Sayuri turned five and yet it feels like just yesterday I was posting about her turning four! For this year’s birthday gift I sewed her a Montessori apron using this great free pattern from Sew Liberated. What I really [...]

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Rag Curls Just Like Laura Ingalls

October 26, 2011 3 comments
rag curls just like laura ingalls in little house in the big woods

In August, we finished reading (for the second time) the first book in Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Little House Book Series, Little House in the Big Woods (one of my favorites by the way). In there we read about how Laura and her sister Mary do their hair up in rags to make them all curly [...]

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Worming Is A Verb

August 30, 2010 2 comments
little girl holding an earthworm in her hands

“Worming” around our house means digging for earthworms. When we go over to visit my parent’s house, Mrs. Sayuri and Pop-Pop (my dad) go “worming” in their back yard. She gets so excited when they find one. And surprisingly she giggles with delight when they squirm and squiggle in her hands. She often describes them [...]

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What’s The Weather Like Today?

July 25, 2010 2 comments
little boy catching water in his hands

Weather Song (to the tune of Clementine) What’s the weather? What’s the weather? What’s the weather like today? Tell me _(insert kids name)__ what’s the weather, What’s the weather like today? Is it sunny? Is it rainy? Is it cloudy out today? Is it snowy? Is it windy? What’s the weather like today? — No [...]

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It’s Eugene Ma’am.

December 8, 2009 1 comment

That is one of my favorite lines from the book Watch Out for the Chicken Feet in Your Soup by Tomie dePaola. The story is of a boy named Joey, who takes his friend Eugene to visit his Italian immigrant grandmother. As they are walking to her house in the beginning of the book, Joey [...]

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The Colors of the Rainbow

July 5, 2009 1 comment

We got the idea for this from Chasing Cheerios. Mrs. Sayuri and I snuck out back the other day, while Mr. Happy Feet was napping, to do this activity. The object was to find things in nature in different colors that coincided with the matching colors in her painted egg carton. She had painted the [...]

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On Thursday, he ate through 4 strawberries…

June 25, 2009 1 comment
strawberries, flat felt strawberries, eric carle felt board, hungry caterpillar felt board fruit

I made Mrs. Sayuri a portable felt board like this one. We have been working on making all of the elements for the story book  The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle. We’ve almost got it all done. It’s been fun retelling the story ourselves using our felt pieces. I’ve also made Mrs. Sayuri a [...]

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