This month was a hard one to pick books for the Virtual Book Club. Paul Galdone has some fun books. We finally settled on Three Little Kittens (Folk Tale Classics). We have others of his in the house but they had not heard this story yet. I love when I get to show them a…
The theme for this month could not have come at a better time. It is a great time since we have several past US Presidents birthdays this month. There are so many books you can explore for the presidents. You can read books about all the presidents and learn fact about each one or you…
When I first saw that name for this months, I did not know who Paul Galdone was. Then when I started looking at the books, I realized that I had several of them. He has lots of folk tales! I love those books and we love the The Little Red Hen (Paul Galdone Classics) book…
We did something different this month for the animal/pet theme. We picked an early reader book to be the book we used. The book we read was National Geographic Readers: Tigers. My oldest read the book on her own and made a book report on it. I read the book to my younger two girl….
The Watercolor Color Wheel is a great addition to the monster activities and color activities on the site. What is a Color Wheel? A color wheel is a circular diagram that organizes colors based on their relationships to each other We made this fun color wheel activity with paper, and mixing watercolor pencils. It is…
Over the past week plus the girls have had my parents visiting. We found a book that just went perfect for the week How to Babysit a Grandpa. This is a great book about you baby sit grandpa and all the things you should do. Grandpa read the book to them. They all had fun…
This has been a fun month and hard to pick just a few books. There were a lot of books that we read that I wanted to list them all! I hope you enjoy the few books that I picked out. What are you favorite books you read for the month? Who’s on First? is…
This is a great activity for kids to do. It is a smple pumpkin themed window that is loads of fun to make. You can set this activity up really easy. Plus it great for the fall or autumn for kids learning about seasonal changes. For this months Poppins Book Nook theme was seasonal. We…
For this months Virtual Book Club we read The Foggy, Foggy Forest by Nick Sharratt. We loved how the pages looks and how much fun they were. What you need to make your Shadow Painting baby oil white copy paper foam paint brush black paint tray Oil on the Paper They put baby oil on…
Another busy month has come and gone! I can’t believe we almost at the end of the month! This month was some very fun book finds! We had a lot of fun reading them! Did you find any fun books this month? Mouseton Abbey was a book I could not pass grabbing! It is so…
This month for the Virtual Book Club, we read Baby Bear, Baby Bear, What Do You See? Board Book (World of Eric Carle) by Bill Martin Jr. I love how the books repeat and you learn some fun reading in them. These type of books have been a favorite at our house for some time….
This months theme is School! There are so many different books about school. I love the series about an There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed Some Books!. You never know what book you will like. Do you have a favorite book about school? Here are some school books that you can check out. Yes,…
This is hands-on learning for Jack and the Beanstalk! Learning is always more fun when you add some hands-on with crafts and gross motor. For this months book we did Jack and the Beanstalk. I love the many different variety of this story, but the classic tales of it are just as fun. We learned…
This months Poppins Book Nook is Fairy Tales. We are very excited about this one! There are so many great books it will be hard to pick just one! Do you have a favorite fairy tale book? I happen to love the story of Sleeping Beauty. Growing up my dad must have read it to…
Here is the collection of fun books we found this July! Did you find any fun books this month? The Summer Visitors by Karel Hayes was a great book about a family that comes to visit their cottage during the summer and some bears that happen to be there as well. We loved the parallel…
Each Month I pick books that we liked while in the book store or at the library. This is a lot of fun for me and the girls. You never know what book you will find. Do you ever look for new books just to look for new book? How Martha Saved Her Parents from…
For the Poppin Book Nook we read Along a Long Road by Frank Viva. It was a fun book about a ride along with a bike. We really enjoyed the simple scenes and fun interactions. What you need: black paper, white squares, pencil and white crayon. First they drew the buildings using the white crayons…
We have been having a Ocean week here! We have been doing the Ocean Pack. We did this fun activity with to go with my week. We read the book Commotion in the Ocean. It is a nice book of small poems about different fish. It is fun to read the book and then find…
We have included links to some of the products and resources we have used with this activity. If you purchase via the links we may earn a small commission. We read Ice Cream: The Full Scoop by Gail Gibbons. THis is a great summer book for kids to read. You learn a lot about ice…
This months Poppins Book Nook theme is Travel/Transportation. The girls are looking forward to seeing a few new books around about this theme. I hope to find some great new ones. My youngest loves everything about cars and trucks. Yes, I know I have three girls. That does not mean they can’t love cars and…
I’m excited to be a part of this Top 10 Series. There are over 25 bloggers that are apart of this! You are sure to find some topic you will love to read about! My top 10 is about book activities! We do a lot of book activities that I don’t ever post about. It…
If you missed our May’s Virtual Book Club for Kids, June is a great time to join up. This month we are doing Gail Gibbons! There are so many books by her that I love! It will be hard to pick just one book. I think we will be looking for books that we have…
Here is this months selection! A lot of the books I find at the library and some I find at a store. Where do you find most of your books? No Dogs Allowed!is an interesting book about a cafe that does not allow animals of any kind. Very few words great fun to look at….
We have a lot of dinosaur books at our house. We have been doing dinosaurs for years now. Not as much as we were, but still a decent amount. There are a lot of different types of dinosaur books. This Popping Nook Book Club this month we read Dinosaurs Before Dark (Magic Tree House, No….
This month we read Swimmy by Leo Lionni. This is a favorite book at our house. They girls did not want any of the other books for this activity. We read through several new books but came right back to Swimmy! What you need: paper with fish drawn on it, lids, and paint red &…
We love the book Jump, Frog, Jump! The girls have loved it since Rose had it first read to her in preschool. Since then we have gone through 2 board books and at least 3 paper backs of the book. This activity also goes great with the Pond Pack. What you need: Pencil or something…
This month for the Popping Book Nook we read The Wizard Next Door. The girls liked this book. It was about a neighbor who is a wizard but only one boy sees it. What you need: paper, math or numbers on paper, crayons, fish foam stickers, tissue paper baby blue, glue, and scissors. They did…
This week was fun bug books! There were lots of fun and different books we read. I can’t believe another week has gone by for this month! It is going by so fast! How did your reading go? For us it went great. I got in more reading than I had expected. We read lots…
Mary and I read the book Exploring Flowers (First Step Nonfiction: Let’s Look at Plants). It was all about flower and what they do. It an easy read. After we read the book we looked at the dot marker page and explored the parts of the flowers we had learned. What you need: Flower Dot…
The first 5 days of the Reading Challenge have passed. How have you been doing? The girls and I have been enjoying doing a little extra reading. We read spring and baseball books this week. Plus started back into reading chapter books. The girls enjoy having books read to them. I also encourage them to…