The Little Engine That Could

This morning we read The Little Engine That Could...

and then headed to Goathill Junction for a train ride!

All Aboard!
Good reads, good times!

The Caterpillow Fight

This week, keeping in the Spring theme we read The Caterpillow Fight

And made little caterpillars out of egg cartons. We filled them with grass seed..

GROW little seeds!

Good reads, good times!

The Very Hugry Caterpillar

This week we read The Very Hungry Caterpillar (a few times)...

And finally headed over to the Enviornmental Nature Center to check out the Butterfly House!








Needless to say, we were inspired:)



Good reads, good times!

Click, Clack, Splish, Splash

I knew the annual Duck-a-thon was coming up in Huntington Beach so we were geared up this year! We read Click, Clack, Splish, Splash..

and headed down Surf City Way!
Caleb was so excited to see the dumpers full of ducks!

DUMP!


We walked along the pier after the "dump" to see the chaos of collection! So silly!

The boys had fun with these yellow duckies:)


Quack, we will be back next year!
Good reads, good times!

Barney Bear's Pizza Shop

After reading one of our faves

We made one of our faves:)

Good reads, good eats, good times!

In The Tall, Tall Grass

In the spirit of spring we read a fun story about the great out doors:)

And then made coffee filter butterflies:)

Good reads, good times!

Chicks and Salsa

Happy Cinco de Mayo!
I'll take any old excuse to have some Mexican food! We read this..

and then tried our hand at some homemade salsa:)

Good reads,good eats, good times!
Ole!

If You Give a Pig a Pancake

Sometimes we like tp mix it up in our house and have breakfast for dinner:) So today we read this...

and tonight we feasted on these!



Daddy's pancakes come in a special size:)

Good reads, good eats, good times:)

This Tree Counts

Happy Arbor Day!
In honor of today we read this...

and then made this.

Any art that captures their little hand prints is priceless as far as I'm concerned:)
Good reads, good times:)

The Boy on The Beach

I asked Caleb what he wanted to do today when I got home and he said "go beach." My kind of kid! So at lunch today we read this...


and once I got home we went here...


Good reads, good times:)

This is Baseball

No point in being evasive here, we love baseball! So today we read one of our favorite stories This is Baseball by Margaret Blackstone

as prep to taking some swings in the batting cages at the sports complex.




Good reads, good times:)

Batter up!

Note:
BATTING CAGE FEES
$1.00 = 1 Token
$5.00 = 6 tokens
(if you pay for parking, they throw in an extra coin as well)
or
Reserve a Cage for $15.00 per half hour
**24 hour advance notice necessary for reservations**

I Wanna Iguana

So being a teacher, no less than a thousand times a day I think "I have the perfect story for this.." I got to thinking, I should have a more literacty based approach to raising my own children. Not really a bad idea. So today during their lunch time visit we read this..

As a prep for taking them here.. Prehistoric Pets.



Knowing the little critters were behind glass kind of soothed us all;)

One of the workers was kind enough to take out this little tortoise for Caleb to pet. I was so into it I forgot to take a photo. Darn. Here is an after the fact shot.

We even found our iguana:)

Good reads, good times:)
*note: For a small fee you are able to feed the turtles or tortoises. For five dollars (as a donation) you are able to get a closer look ar some more critters. Ages three and under are free. Everything we did there today was free.