"'If you go flying on a flying trapeze', said his mother, 'I will be a tightrope walker, and I will cross the air to you.'" Little T works on her balance while pretending to be a tight rope walker and a trapeze artist. Fun, fun, fun! The Runaway Bunny by Margaret Wise Brown is about a little bunny who wanted to run away, and imagined himself to be different things … [Read more...]
Plum Tree Cottage: Life Lessons from Dolls
I love playing with Little T. That’s when I see her up close thinking, learning, and being. Nothing beats watching her face light up when she is struck with a realization or when she accomplishes something. And nothing is sweeter than seeing her beam when she realizes that I noticed. I was reminded of this last week when we read and based our activities on Plum Tree Cottage: … [Read more...]
Prayer for a Child: Appreciating Poetry in Prayer
Prayer for a Child by Rachel Field is a beautiful prayer asking God to bless all the familiar people and things in a child’s life; it is wonderfully illustrated. Being a prayer, nothing “happens” in the book. Little T did not appreciate it at first and kept asking for another book to read. Fortunately, Before Five in a Row (BFIAR) has engaging ideas that I again tweaked to make … [Read more...]
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