HAPPY SATURDAY!
Fantastic Photos for Father’s Day Gifts
Father’s Day is upon us! Don’t worry if you’re a procrastinator like I am, one hour photo was invented with us in mind! You really can’t go wrong with pictures as gifts. It’s easy to incorporate children into the project and really let it be from them. Plus, what dad or grandpa couldn’t use an updated photo for his office, den, or bedroom?
Fantastic Photos for Father's Day Gifts
Father’s Day is upon us! Don’t worry if you’re a procrastinator like I am, one hour photo was invented with us in mind! You really can’t go wrong with pictures as gifts. It’s easy to incorporate children into the project and really let it be from them. Plus, what dad or grandpa couldn’t use an updated photo for his office, den, or bedroom?
A Mother’s Day Confession
My mom has always said that she hated Mother’s Day. Especially as a young mom. She says that every Mother’s Day, she would go to church and hear people speak about how wonderful, selfless, patient, and kind mothers are. How sacred their role is and how God-like they are. This was all intended to honor mothers and elevate the role of motherhood. What my mother came away with, however, was a gut full of guilt. She never felt she measured up to that idyllic “Mother’s Day Mom”.
A Mother’s Day Confession
My mom has always said that she hated Mother’s Day. Especially as a young mom. She says that every Mother’s Day, she would go to church and hear people speak about how wonderful, selfless, patient, and kind mothers are. How sacred their role is and how God-like they are. This was all intended to honor mothers and elevate the role of motherhood. What my mother came away with, however, was a gut full of guilt. She never felt she measured up to that idyllic “Mother’s Day Mom”.
A Triple Scoop of Seuss
And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street
This was Dr. Seuss’ first book to be published. He said that as he was riding on a ship on a trip back from Europe, he became enchanted with the rhythm of the ship’s engine. As he listened to the rhythm over and over in his head, the words forming this book’s title seemed to flow right into the rhythm. This is great for helping children hear the rhythm in words (a key phonological awareness skill) as well as another great book celebrating the fantastic imagination of children!
Five Favorites….To Start
OK, for those of you looking for more Dr. Seuss activities, here are five favorites to start off with! More to come!
(Does anyone else ever feel like they’re juggling this many things?)
Happy Birthday, Dr. Seuss!
I have always loved Dr. Seuss! As a child and even a teenager, I was drawn to the wackiness of his themes and made-up words juxtaposed with the reason of his perfect prose. As I’ve studied early education and early literacy, I’ve come to love Dr. Seuss even more! His books are pretty much the best for building phonological awareness, the development of which is critical for reading (read more here). They not only expose children to rhythm and rhyme in an enchanting, almost intoxicating way, but they also introduce rhyming with invented words, which emphasizes further the importance of sound in rhyming – not meaning. These “nonsense words” also open the imagination and creativity of children in a simply magical way. In my opinion, his work is so critical to a good education, I refer to him as the Shakespeare of childhood!
Heart Art
Sorry for the delay in posts! It’s teething time again around here, and I’ve been spending a lot of time snuggling a certain 10-month old. You’d take snuggling him over writing too if you saw those eyes!
So, while I was planning on giving you plenty of heart art ideas here, I’ll finish the write up of the ones I had ready and link you to some great ones I’ve found on another site by a blogger I assume doesn’t have any teething ten-month olds.
Five Valentine Treats!
Looking for a tasty treat to make for or with your kiddos on that special day of love? Here are five treats that will make the day memorable!
Heart Biscuits
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