Summer Review Medley: George’s Secret Key, Little Quack, and the Flopsy Bunnies
What we’re reading this week: George’s Secret Key to the Universe, Little Quack, and The Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies.
Summer Review Medley: The Color Kittens, Blue Moo & The Velveteen Rabbit
School’s out but we haven’t stopped reading. This week, The Five-Year-Old and I are reading (and listening to) The Color Kittens by Margaret Wise Brown, Blue Moo by Sandra Boynton, and The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams.
Book Review: Big Workbook Kindergarten
Unlike I’m Going to Write! Upper Case Letters, which is geared to teaching a single skill and can use a single set of instructions all the way through, Big Workbook: Kindergarten strives to teach a wider set of concepts and contains a variety of worksheet formats.
Book Review: I’m Going to Write! Upper Case Letters
School may be out, but that doesn’t mean I want The Five-Year-Old to lose ground when it comes to her new-found writing and reading skills. That where Harriet Ziefert’s I’m Going to Write! Upper Case Letters comes in.
The Five-Year-Old takes pictures
A series of photographs The Five-Year-Old took with her new Fisher-Price Kid Tough Camera. Cozy the Cat, Daddyo, and her favorite balloon all kindly posed for the camera.
Review: The Dairy Twist in Pembroke MA
Last week’s ice cream hunt brought us to the Dairy Twist in Pembroke, Massachusetts, (about 15 minutes northeast of Kingston). It’s an open-air ice cream shop, where you buy your ice cream at the storefront, then go somewhere else to eat it.
Your Moment of Reading
This week, Daddyo read The Five-Year-Old John D. Fitzgerald’s The Great Brain.
Book Review: The Borrowers
This week, my daughter reads The Borrowers by Mary Norton.
Music Review: Lisa Loeb’s Camp Lisa
The Five-Year-Old discovered Lisa Loeb’s summer music album, Camp Lisa, this week. She loves it so much that she asked me to sit down and listen to the whole thing with her “so that you can talk about it on Caterpickles, Mommyo.”
The Big Apple Circus: A Good Choice for a Child’s First Circus
Last weekend, the Caterpickles squad traipsed into downtown Boston for a trip to the Big Apple Circus. Now in its 34th season, the cozy, one-ring Big Apple Circus is a Boston tradition.
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