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One of my lovely students recently moved to a new school, and her sweet mother was such a fan of Literacy Launchpad that she wanted Literacy Launchpad to tag along with them on their move. I felt so honored by this high compliment and was grateful for Read More...
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December is all about print awareness. We are learning about the purpose print serves and practicing our hand at "reading" and "writing" our own print! Last week we read The Jolly Christmas Postman by Allan and Janet Ahlberg. I let the kids play with Read More...
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I have spent many a' evenings perusing Pinterest when I should be cooking up a blog post for y'all. So tonight I decided to kill two birds with one stone and share a handful of the fun stuff I've been finding on Pinterest. (Have you pinned yet? You must! Read More...
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October is a month of spiders at Literacy Launchpad. I've been doing my best to freak the kids out (in a preschooler-friendly, G-rated way) with these creepy crawlers. My favorite is my friend Harry that I bring along each week. He's a furry little fake Read More...
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I'm still playing catch-up with keeping you all posted on what we've been up to in class. At the end of September we wrapped up our Names unit with a book based on one of the most fun, rhyming, names, songs - There Once Was A Man Named Michael Finnegan Read More...
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Last month I bought some inexpensive canvas bags from Walmart, along with some puffy paints, and let my kids decorate their own library bags. The idea was to get them a little more excited about choosing their own books at the library since they would Read More...
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My Little Reader and I have had our fair share of library story time disappointment . We did finally fall in love with a librarian at one library, only to have our hearts broken when she left her position at the library. And even though we did love her Read More...
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My kids have a technology addiction. Well, my older ones do. I am completely frustrated by this fact, even though I know I haven't had much influence over this addiction. (From what I hear, they were pretty screen addicted even in their native country.) Read More...
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Last week was the first time I've taught a Literacy Launchpad lesson in over a year (visit my other blog here to get a peek at WHY I've been gone for a while)! It felt WONDERFUL to be back at it. You have no idea how much I was missing it! We kicked it Read More...
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As someone who enjoys reading, and enjoys reading to my children, I cannot believe it has never dawned on me (till now) to be keeping a record of the books we read. As I was driving home from visiting Chicago this weekend, I was thinking about how it Read More...
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My first summer with three kids was... interesting. I had lofty plans for activities and learning, but most of them didn't happen. We did have fun celebrating summer today though with some reading and a little field trip. We got a couple books from the Read More...
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None of my kids can read. O.K. so one of them is only three, and the other two have only just recently moved to this country (from Ethiopia) and learned English. But in all honesty, I feel they should all be closer to reading than they are. My oldest Read More...
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Forgive me for my absence here. I'm new to the whole being a mom of three kids over summer break thing. It's time consuming. I'll be back. Promise! Read More...
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Summer is totally kicking my butt this year. Hence my lack of posts lately. Took my kids up to one of our local libraries last week to get them signed up for the summer reading program. I was a bit disappointed. I signed them up as pre-readers since that's Read More...
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