I made this book years ago when my son was learning to count. He loved the book Ten Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed, so I tweaked the idea using spiders instead of monkeys. I used pompoms for the spiders and a black marker for the legs. The bed and the text were created on [...]

We’ve finished learning the whole alphabet, and some of my little friends actually know the whole damn thing, so we’ve been celebrating our accomplishments with some spirited readings of Chicka Chicka Boom Boom.  On Monday we made a mural, and each child did his or her own little chicka tree, using templates I found here. Now [...]

Now that we’re in the home stretch, our theme is “Ready for Kindergarten,” and all the books on our shelf are about kindergarten and school.  Z. commented that some of them looked familiar, and I told her that we’d had a bunch of them out at the start of the year.  I was impressed, but [...]