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Parents Make Halloween Happen on Google Hangouts

Anonymous — Sun, 07 Oct 2012 18:26:00 GMT

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ON GOOGLE HANGOUTS

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October 8th - 12th

Monday

Join +Angelique Felix and guest +Cerys Parker at 2:15 PM CST for a Witches story and cupcakes

Tuesday

Join +Angelique Felix and guest +Cerys Parker at 2:15 PM CST for a Monster song and craft
Join + Susan Case and +Rachelle Doorley (Tinkerlab) at 5:30 PM CST for Spooky Simple Science Recipes

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Wednesday

Join +Holly Homer at 9:30 AM CST and guests as they discusses Candy Control
Join +Kimberley Blaine and guests at 1:00 PM CST as they discuss children's age differences and participation in Halloween
Join +Green Kid Crafts at 2:00 PM CST for Greening Your Halloween
Join +Angelique Felix guest +Cerys Parker at 2:15 PM CST for a Ghosts! story, song, and craft

Thursday

Join +Melissa Taylor at 11:00 AM CST for Halloween Science
Join +Angelique Felix and guest +Cerys Parker at 2:15 PM CST for a Black Cat! story and song
Join + Susan Case and +Vivian Kirkfield (Positive Parenting Participation) at 3:30 CST for Halloween book reading, craft and discussion on how picture books help children cope with their problems
Join +Holly Homer and guests at 9:00 PM CST for Homemade Costumes

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Autographed copies from Nancy Robinson Masters

Friday

Join Amy of +Delightful Children's Books and guest +Brooke Williams at 8:00 AM CST for Halloween Children's Book suggestions and reviews
Join +Angelique Felix and guest +Cerys Parker at 2:15 PM CST for a Pumpkins! rhyme and song

Click here for SPOOKTACULAR SMORGASBORD
OF SIMPLE SCIENCE & SENSORY IDEAS.

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LET ME KNOW IF YOU'D LIKE TO JOIN US IN MY HANGOUTS (+Susan Case) ON TUESDAY OR THURSDAY. Just leave me a comment below with your google+ name - or comment while the hangout is in progress and I'll add you when the discussion part begins. Thank you so much!

Gobble Up Turkey Facts

Anonymous — Sat, 12 Nov 2011 19:07:00 GMT

My class will be gobbling up some turkey facts this week for science.

I begin by reading Jim Arnosky's book I'm a Turkey.

Listen to his cute ol' song to go along with the story

I've made a Turkey Fact powerpoint too.

Click to download

By the way this is my 100th post...something to GOBBLE about!

“How Spiders Make Webs” Pop-up Book

Anonymous — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 06:13:06 GMT

I asked my son to make a “How to” book on how spiders made webs. I gave him a choice of book type to use and he chose to make a pop-up book. Instead of having him draw many spiders and webs for this book, however, we used stickers of spiders and webs. My son loved [...]

Flip-up Spider Book Pages

Anonymous — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 06:04:59 GMT

My son researched many spiders on the Web (listed in the Spider Theme Unit). He printed out different pictures of spiders and information about each. I asked him to group the spiders. He chose the following: “Weirdest”, “Funniest”, “Scariest”, and “Creepiest”. He cut out the spiders and placed each in the group in which he thought it [...]

Batty for Bats! (Bats Theme Unit)

Anonymous — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 05:29:43 GMT

Batty About Bats Cover My son is going to make a bat book using the activities and information below. These booklets and activities will all go into my son’s bat book: “‘Batty’ Facts About Me” from Scrapbooking Student Writing “Bats” (nonfiction fifth-grade story) plus comprehension questions and cloze activity (edHelper.com) “Bats” (read and color) plus comprehension questions (edHelper.com) “Halloween Bat Clips” [...]

Pumpkin Theme Unit

Anonymous — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 03:08:27 GMT

My son is going to make a pumpkin-shaped book with the following “chapters”: Fun pumpkin facts Pumpkin reading and comprehension Pumpkin creative writing (with child-drawn pictures) Pumpkin recipes Pumpkin arts/crafts (child-made) The following Web sites will be used: Child-Made Pumpkin Fact Books Wanted…Someone is Stealing all of the Pumpkins! Farm Bureau Kids: Pumpkin Fun Facts Halloween Online: Unusual Pumpkin Facts Halloween Online: Pumpkin Recipes Merced County Office [...]

Spider Theme Unit

Anonymous — Sun, 28 Sep 2008 06:58:26 GMT

My son is going to make a spider book using some of the information below: Spider shape book Spider shape book lined paper “Spider Activity and Web Sites” Cool pictures and facts about spiders Spider facts for kids Spider information Spider facts Spider vocabulary Building a spider web Construction of a spider web Spider anatomy Spider moulting Spider life cycle What spiders eat Spider bites Tarantulas Brown recluse spiders Black widow spider Spider poems Spider [...]

Child-Made Pumpkin Fact Books

Anonymous — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 16:12:54 GMT

The purpose of child-made pumpkin fact books is for your children to have a reference book about pumpkins that they can reread in the future. I find that nonfiction child-made books are very popular during silent reading time. They are also a huge hit when they take them home to read to parents, friends, grandparents, [...]