Mostly posts about books, but every once in a while, we’ll love a movie, game, or TV show so much we’ll talk about it here too.
Last week, The Five-Year-Old came home from school with a simply brilliant fundraiser from Square1Art in tow. During art class, The Five-Year-Old and her classmates drew pictures with markers. Each picture was labeled with the child’s name and her classroom information.
One of the things that came The Five-Year-Old’s way this Christmas is Sy Barlowe’s Beginning Birdwatcher’s Book. Designed to be a child’s first log of bird sightings, the book includes 48 birds commonly found across North America, such as the Northern Cardinal, American Crow, and Blue Jay.
As we mentioned last week, the entire Caterpickles Clan is thrilled that after millions of dollars in renovations and two years of very hard work by the theatre’s new owner Susan Lewis, the Norwood Theatre has finally reopened! The grand reopening gala happened August 31st, 2012–85 years after the theatre’s original opening on August 31st, 1927.
This week, my daughter discovers the joy of old-timey Choose Your Own Adventure books.
This week, The Five-Year-Old reads Kate DiCamillo’s The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane, Kelly Briggs’ Lighthouse Lullaby, and Natasha Wing’s The Night Before Kindergarten.
This week, The Five-Year-Old is reading Jack Prelusky’s The Dragons Are Singing Tonight, Mary Pope Osborne’s The Knights at Dawn, and John D. Fitzgerald’s The Great Brain.
What we’re reading this week: My Many Colored Days by Dr. Seuss, A Day, A Dog by Gabrielle Vincent, and You Can’t See a Dodo at the Zoo by Fred Erhlich.
This week, The Five-Year-Old read Jack Prelusky’s The Frogs Wore Red Suspenders, Mary Pope Osborne’s Dinosaurs before Dark, and Mary Norton’s The Borrowers Afloat.
This week, we’re reading Pat Thomson’s The Squeaky Creaky Bed, Terry Farish’s The Cat Who Liked Potato Soup, and Gillian Lobel’s Little Honey Bear and the Smiley Moon.
On Father’s Day weekend, my husband asked The Five-Year-Old if she would like to watch his favorite movie from when he was just a Five-Year-Old. Naturally she did, so he hunted down The Cat From Outer Space, courtesy of Netflix.
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