Quality Time at Home

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It can be a challenge to come up with new, exciting activities to keep the kids busy in their free time. While there’s no shortage of computer games and television shows, sometimes the digital world isn’t all it’s cracked up to be when it comes to spending quality family time together. Here are a few [...]

Smithsonian National Museum Day- September 29

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  Are you looking for a fun family activity?  If you’ve ever been to any of the Smithsonian Museums, you know that they are incredible and FREE, so in the spirit of that free resource to everyone, Smithsonian Magazine is sponsoring Museum Day Live! on September 29, 2012 and offering 2 FREE ADMISSIONS PER HOUSEHOLD [...]

Online Summer Reading Program For Kids

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  Have you checked out We Give Books?  It’s an amazing online collection of some of the best children’s books that are free to read online.  Each time you read a book you also get to “give” a book.  For each book read online, We Give Books donates a book to a leading literacy program [...]

LeapFrog Summer Camp

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Memorial Day Freebies and Discounts for 2012

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Once a holiday known as Decoration Day, Memorial Day was created to commemorate the fallen Union soldiers of the Civil War. While we take time to remember all those who serve or have served our country, there are also some great freebies and discounts offered this weekend. 1. AAA Tipsy Tow Plan on partying a [...]

Rubber Ducky Party Theme

I have loved rubber duckies for a long, long time. As a matter of fact, my baby shower was a rubber ducky theme and my son was decked out in all of the rubber ducky clothes I could find when he was a baby. While browsing Pinterest tonight, I found some super cute rubber ducky [...]

Reading Fair Projects

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Last Thursday my students put on the reading fair at our school.  Participation was optional and we ended up with around 50 projects, which was great.  Their enthusiasm was amazing and they were so proud of their story boards.  I was pretty proud of them, too.  I thought I would share a few of the [...]