Recently I stumbled across some wonderful free printables to go along with the children’s book The Mitten, by Jan Brett. I thought it would be fun to create a lapbook to store and display the print-outs, mini-books, and matching-game pieces. Both winter-themed printables and those made specifically for the book …
Alphabet Lapbooks For Threes & Preschoolers This post continues our Alphabet Lapbook Series – we are on the Letter C! We added a few more components in this lapbook – we are starting to get the hang of it, I think! You will find a list of sources for the …
Lapbooks For Threes & Preschoolers This post highlights our second lapbook for the letter ‘B.’ You are welcome to copy exactly what we did, but I’m also presenting this to show that lapbooks are fun and not difficult. (As this is one of our second, it is rather simple.) Once …
Disclosure: This post contains affiliate links and I will receive a small commission if you make a purchase after clicking on my links. Preschool Lapbooks A few days ago I wrote about using lapbooks in our home preschool to work through the letters of the alphabet. (See this post for …
If If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you; If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too: If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, Or, being lied about, …
A Mother’s Influence What Rules The World They say a man is mighty, He governs land and sea, He wields a mighty scepter O’er lesser powers that be; But a mightier power and stronger Man from his throne has hurled, For the hand that rocks the cradle Is the hand …
You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream. – C.S. Lewis C.S. Lewis is one of my favorite authors, and I was delighted to come across this quote the other day on Pinterest, of all places! As an “older mom” of a young …
I Wandered Lonely As A Cloud I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o’er vales and hills, When all at once I saw a crowd, A host, of golden daffodils; Beside the lake, beneath the trees, Fluttering and dancing in the breeze. Continuous as the stars that …
It’s been almost 100 degrees here in Alabama the last few days…this poem helps me think of cooler weather… Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening Whose woods these are I think I know. His house is in the village, though; He will not see me stopping here To watch …
“In a letter to his brother and his wife, October 24, 1818, Keats says: ‘If I had a prayer to make for any great good…it should be that one of your children should be the first American Poet. I have a great mind to make a prophecy, and they say …
The Rock and the Bubble A poem by Louisa May Alcott (1832 – 1888 / Pennsylvania / United States) Oh! a bare, brown rock Stood up in the sea, The waves at its feet Dancing merrily. A little bubble Once came sailing by, And thus to the rock Did it …