Pirates are a fun theme for during the summer and for Talk Like A Pirate Day in the fall! And it is a great theme to use with the Build Up Summer Learning Week 1 was Pirates! Pirate is a theme that different ages do together. There are several pirate books you can look into…
Ocean books are a favorite at our house and we love reading the books and talking about the ocean fish. The Watercolor Fish is a great painting idea to go with the book Swimmy. And kids of different ages can do this craft and paint their own fish from the story. And painting inside cookie…
I’ll be honest this month’s Poppins Book Nook theme: Countries Around the World, is not really one I have explored with my girls. I had to head to the library to look at books for the theme. It was fun to look through the books and see what there was. I was surprised just how…
Every month we have a great theme and I’m looking forward to this one! There are so many great artists that you can study! We take several trips to different art museums in our area. They are fun to go to and explore art. My girls and I have learned to love many different kinds…
This summer we have had a rare treat to watch. We have had a spider that took up his home right outside out door. We watched him all summer. We saw the many different bugs and insects that he caught in his web. We learned he would rest and when he was on the hunt…
My girls were very excited about this Where the Wild Things Are book activity. We have been having some fun doing activities with Where the Wild Things Are. You can check out our Kid of the Wild Things Crowns we did as well. Here are some fun gross motor activities to do with the Book…
We had a had time picking a book for this month’s book club. The girls and I read and watched several of the movies. We love the book Where the Wild Things Are and it was a fun movie and a fun book! We finally picked Where the Wild Things Are for the Books that…
I’m very excited once again to be a part of the Virtual Book Club for Kids for 2015-2016. My girls have really enjoyed being a part of the book club. There is a great line-up of books for this year. I know that they pick the books out with great care. I’ve never had a…
The girls and I enjoy being a part of the Virtual Book Club. We have been doing it for a long time. The girls always look forward to seeing what books we will be doing. At the end of the year I thought I would round up all the activities and introduction posts from the…
We love doing gross motor activities at our house. At least three of four times a week we do some kinds of gross motor activity. This activity is a fun ways to read a book and get moving at the same time. This is a great addition to our gross motor activities on the site!…
I’m very excited about August’s theme. There are so many books that have been made into movies. It will be hard to pick just one book. I really like that each month we always have fun books to explore. I thought I would share some of our favorite books that are movies. We have included…
Every month we all get excited about the books we have for the Virtual Book Club. This months author is one we have had in the past. This months is Bill Martin Jr. It was almost two years ago he was a book club author. He has so many fun books my girls just love…
July’s Poppins Book Nook theme is composers. We are lucky enough that the girls grandfather is a composer. I also worked for several years doing classical music data entry. I love listening to all the different types of music. I picked a book that we could learn about a classical composer and listen to music….
This is a theme that is fun at our house. We have a lot of different types of classical music. I worked for a company that sold classical music and did data entry for them. I learned a lot about composers and different types of music. My girls listen to lots of classical music and…
I always look forward to seeing what books there are for the Virtual Book Club. This months Author is Donald Crews. We had this same author around this time last year. He was a new author to me then but now is a favorite to read. We often check his book out. One of our…
Forest and woodland theme is a favorite around here. There are so many great books out about these themes. There are so many wide ranges of books you can read as well. Each month it is fun to find those theme books and see which ones my girls will be picking for us to do…
It is a fun time again. Our author for this months book club is Leo Lionni! There are so many fun books of his to read. This is also the second time that he has been featured for the Virtual Book Club. One of our favorite books is by far Swimmy. We had so much…
This months Poppins Book Nook is a great theme! I know that as i have looked through the book list that there are a ton of great book. We own a few and have read many others. They have been give this award since 1938! So there are years of books to pick from. Plus…
Eric Carle is one of our favorite authors! There are so many great books by him. I’m always happy when we run into a book of his to read or do an activity with them. Several years ago we went to Eric Carle Museum and loved it. There was so much fun information to learn…
We are doing something totally different for this months Virtual Book Club! We did some cooking. My oldest has celiac so about 99% of what we cook is gluten free. I thought I would share our fun gluten free muffins that we make from scratch! This is a great and easy cooking project with kids!…
I’m very excited about the Farm theme for this months Poppins Book Nook! There is so much to explore with this theme. Plus there are so many great books to read. I know that my girls have always loved the theme of farms. One of my first theme packs was a Farm Pack! We have…
I love the books by Laura Numeroff. These are fun books that you can read over and over and have with each time. My girls are excited to have this author again. We did her as the author just over a year ago. One book activity that we did Exploring Shadow Puppets. This activity was…
We love adding gross motor to books. For this months Virtual Book Club, we did gross motor with Goodnight Moon. This makes a fun books that my girls enjoy another fun way to explore the book. Plus it gets them up and going while reading a book they love. This is simple easy to do….
We are in a new year and a new set of Poppins Book Nook themes! We start out with our first theme of weather! I’m so excited about this one. There are so many great books to explore with weather! You can get a lot of different books by season as well. One fun weather…
I am excited about this months Virtual Book Club author: Margaret Wise Brown. We have several of her books at our house. We have some in board books, hard cover and paper back. She is a classical author that many people read over and over. I think we read Goodnight Moon at our house every…
The Mother Goose Rhymes were some of the first poems that my girls learn. They are fun and have been around for a long time. Several of the poems have changed over the years. We picked together one of their favorite poems for this month’s Poppins Book Nook. We are doing Jack Be Nimble. Jack…
I’m really looking forward to this months theme of Poetry. There are so many fun poetry books to read to kids. We have several favorites at our house. We have had some that have been book finds for us as well. My favorite part about poetry is learning the different types and having your kids…
Dr. Seuss is a favorite at our house. My girls would let me read them all day long if we had nothing else to do. I love the books for many reasons. The rhyming words are great that you can work on. They repeat a lot of the words in the books. Plus it is…
Magnets are something my girls love to play with at our house. We have been looking at books that have experiments about them. Our library recently added a STEM section with TONS of new books that are STEM-based. We have loved having these books. The girls wanted to explore some of the experiment books. There…
Color mixing is always a lot of fun for kids to do. This is fun to explore the different shades of colors that kids can make. Every color mix is different . That means that outcome of the mix is always different and fun to explore For this months virtual books club we picked the…