Our Brown Bear Brown Bear flannel story characters

After a few mornings I finally finished painting our Brown Bear Brown Bear story characters. Hooray! I started a dew days ago and my youngest sat with me painting alongside me but he wanted to play with them before they were dry. My only way of getting it done in the end was waking up early and painting while the boys were sleeping.Here are the water color paintings of them. I used Prang

Brown Bear, Brown Bear Watercoloring

It is no secret that my youngest loves to paint. He loves using his art easel that he got last Christmas. Yesterday, he saw me watercolor painting the characters from the book "Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What do you see?" He decided to put up a chair and paint alongside Mommy (me).Here is my watercolor of Brown Bear below. (you can click on photos to see them larger) In truth,I have not painted a

Book of the Week: The Little Engine That Could

We started our T is for Train theme recently and I wanted to share of one of books we read.Book: "The Little Engine that Could" by Watty Piper.Summary: In this well-loved classic, a little train carrying oodles of toys to all of the good boys and girls is confronted with a towering, seemingly impassable mountain. As nicely as they ask, the toys cannot convince the Shiny New Engine or the Big

The Frog Prince and Jump Frog Jump ( mini unit)

As promised, we did a mini theme unit on Frogs. We were not able to do it last Monday because we had extended family over so the boys asked to do it on Saturday. Can you imagine that? I must have been dreaming...!My boys like frogs as most boys do. I am glad we were able to include Frogs after our F is for Fish week (two week study).Before we read our book. We found some interesting information

Book of the Week: RAINBOW FISH (Activities and Craft)

We read the book "Rainbow Fish" by Marcus Pfister during our F is for Fish theme.Book Summary:The Rainbow Fish, with is shimmering scales, is the most beautiful fish in the ocean. But he is proud and vain and none of the other fish want to be his friend--until he learns to give away some of his most prized possessions.Group Discussion:We went over the importance of friendship with others, and

Books of the Week: St. Patrick's Day

This week's Books of the Week along with activities are two favorites of my 3 year old son.Books we read about St.Patrick's Day:St. Patrick's Day Countdown by Salina YoonSt. Patrick's Day in the Morning (Clarion books) by Eve Bunting, illustrated by Jan BrettABOUT THE BOOKSSt. Patrick's Day Countdown is a shamrock-shaped board book welcomes littlest fans of the Emerald Isle. From "five shamrock

Book of the week "The Crayon Box that Talked"

This week is the first week, I'll be introducing our 'Mommy and Me" pick (chosen by me and my toddler) for "the book of the week."The current theme is Martin Luther King and our book of the week is"The Crayon box that Talked" by Shane DeRolf and illustrated by Michael Letzig. In Shane DeRolf’s deceptively simple poem, a child’s box of crayons conveys the sublimely simple message that when we all