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…
Ponds, Lakes & Rivers are a favorite theme at our house. We loved so many different books pond books. I have collected a few of our favorite books that you can read with kids. You have a mix of learning books about ponds and pond animals and a few I made a Pond Pack to…
Ponds has been a favorite theme at our house for a very long time and Jump, Frog, Jump! has been a favorite book for as long as I can remember. It was one of the books my oldest came home from school and just had to read and I just had to get. It was…
A few months ago we did an activity for the book Madeline. We love the activities. One part about the book that I just love is that it takes place in Paris, France. There are so many things you see in the book. One part that we liked was the Eiffel Tower. There is so…
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…
This time of year is full of feasts of many different kinds. There are holidays around the world with different kinds feast. There are some holidays that I know my girls, and I don’t know about all of them and this is a chance to look into more of them. There are so many books…
October’s themes for Poppin Book Nook is artists. We have had tons of fun with this theme. The girls and I decided we would do some exploring of different types of artists at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. What better way to explore artists than to take a trip where you can see…
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…
In the spring we did the Caldecott Medal Books for the them. It was a lot of fun. This month we are doing the Newberry Medal Winners. All of these books are not picture books. This is something different for the book club and I’m excited about it. We are going to pick one 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 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…
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…
Woodland and forest is a favorite theme at our house. We looked through a lot of the books in the house to decide. We happened to come along to a new book while book shopping. It was Daylight Starlight Wildlife. We featured this as one of our books finds for the month. The book explores…
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…
This months theme is Caldecott Medal Books. There are so many different books to pick from! We really had a hard time just picking one book. There are so many books to pick from. You can see some of our favorites in the introduction post. We decided to pick one from the honor section. We…
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…
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…
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…
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…
January’s theme is a great one! To the Laboratory! I’m looking forward to it, but most of all exploring some new books about it. I will admit that we don’t have many books in the house about science. I always get them at the library. We will be using the library to explore more books….
This is a theme I have been looking forward to. The girls love to cook with me and we often switch up who gets to cook breakfast with me. To the kitchen can mean so many different things. It can mean baking, cooking or dishes. This will be a great theme to explore with your…
Learning about stars and planets is always a lot of fun. It is fun to learn about space and the things that are out there. For the Poppins Book Nook, we did some study of the stars. There are many different starts and things we can learn about them. There so many different parts of…
This months Poppins Book Nook theme is Beyond Our Planet. Space is a big theme at our house. We are always talking about the stars and the planets. There are so many fun and exciting books about space. I’m sure we will have fun picking out a few of the books that we will like…
This months theme was a lot of fun for the girls we read several different books for the wild west theme. We read several books for this months theme. It was fun to find new books every time we went to the library. It was fun to learn about the different native nations, the cowboys,…
I’m excited about this the Wild West theme this month for the Poppins Book Nook. There are so many different books to explore about it. I know that you can always find something fun and interesting to read about the Wild West. I know that I will have a hard time picking a book about…
This month the Community helper Pack came out. It has been loads of fun to use. We really loved the books we have been using for it. So we pick a book from that to use for our Poppins Book Nook activity this month. We decided to use the book Whose Tools Are These?: A…
This months theme of What Will I Be When I Grow Up? is a great theme for kids! There are always books and ideas for learning about different jobs and things they can be. This is a great time to do some pretend play and have fun. There are some places you can can explore…