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Reading: All About Frogs - Jim Arnosky

After we looked at a couple frog books I thought we could try an art project and make a frog. Something simple and not too messy.

Its pretty easy. Paper plates, green pom-poms, wiggle eyes, red and green crayons, red pipe cleaners.

It took all of 5 minutes to make, he was entertained, and it didn’t take anything I didn’t already have in my supply box. Now the glue is drying while he eats lunch. Graham crackers, grapes, cheese, and OJ. Yum!

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World Breastfeeding Week

A YEAR OF CELEBRATIONS: WORLD BREASTFEEDING WEEK
AND LA LECHE LEAGUE INTERNATIONAL’S 50th ANNIVERSARY

USA (Month, 2006) – La Leche League in the United States of America will observe two special occasions in 2006. World Breastfeeding Week and the 50th anniversary of La Leche League International will be celebrated with hundreds of activities around the country. These festivities will include walks, runs, concerts, picnics, auctions, prize drawings, children’s activities, and much more.

Breastfeeding provides optimal nutrition at no cost and live antibodies that protect a child against illness. Recent studies show that breast cancer and postpartum stress are reduced among mothers who breastfeed. In fact, a 2001 American Academy of Family Physicians’ Position Paper recommends that “all babies, with rare exceptions, be breastfed and/or receive expressed human milk exclusively for about the first six months of life. Breastfeeding beyond the first year offers considerable benefits to both mother and child, and should continue as long as mutually desired.”

La Leche League is a nonprofit, nonsectarian organization that offers mother-to-mother support, encouragement, and information to women who want to breastfeed their babies. La Leche League also provides continuing education to healthcare providers and is a founding member of the World Alliance for Breastfeeding Action (WABA). WABA works to promote breastfeeding’s importance world-wide. La Leche League in the USA is a totally volunteer organization. Contributions are tax-deductible and can be made at https://donate2lll.org/indexSecure.htm.

For more information about La Leche League or to find a local Group, call 1-800-LA LECHE or visit the web site at www.lalecheleague.org and/or www.lllusa.org.

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Random

I got a package yesterday that I only just was able to open. A good friend sent me a couple books on thrifty living. Miserly Moms and The Tightwad Gazzette. Yay me! For quiet time today before nap I curled up on the couch and flipped through them to seemw aht I could gleam. E poured over the pictures in a gorgeous book I checked out about the wetlands. Must dig through the photobox and find the pictures from last year’s trip to Lousianna, lots of good swamp photos in there.

I dug through the old bathtub toy bucket and found 5 rubber duckies. I think I’ll perform 5 Little Ducks at bathtime, this may become a new bathtub ritual for us. *giggles*

I began sorting through my scrap material box and realized that I have an abundant amount of girly prints. I’m not sure why, perhaps hopeful wishing on my part during my pregnancy with A. Ah well, seeing as how I’ve got a house full of boys I pulled out several good sized pieces and began trimming them up to make a fairly good sized quilt. I’d like to back it with some bright pink fleese since that is the dominant color. Maybe I can sell it on Ebay and make a few dollars. Now to find the pink fleese. Good thing I have a JoAnn’s coupon.

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Earth*School review

Earth*School curriculum packets

From the webite:

What is The Earth*School Curriculum?:
A nature and seasons based curriculum for young children and their parents. It is specially designed for homeschooling families, and can be used with one child or many children. The activities in the Earth*School curriculum are suited for a wide range of ages. Young toddlers will enjoy the art activities right along side their older siblings. The recommended stories can be shared with toddlers, preschoolers and kindergartners, but are also great for cuddling up and reading aloud to your older child. The cooking activities will readily be enjoyed by all members of your family, regardless of age! The Earth*School Curriculum is divided up by activity type. It includes original songs and movement activities, set to familiar tunes. Other areas included in each unit are science, math, nature table crafts, creative art,language, recommended books and places to go and people to see. There are six original activities to be found for each area.

Cost: $10 digital, $12 for printed version

I bought Unit 18: Down at the Pond printed version, the next day I received an email letting me know it was mailed aqnd I received the packet 2 days later (free shipping). Now it wasn’t what I expected, though that isn’t a bad thing. I suppose in my mind I saw something rather formal, do this on this day and this on the next sort of thing. What it was instead was an organized listing of various activities all related to the pond theme and sorted into subject groups. It is very open allowing you to pick and choose what you want to do and what you don’t, and it is full enough that I can repeat it next year and possibly the year later without it feeling like a reveiw to E.

If you’re creative enough to come up with lots of ideas then this might be boring to you. However if you sit at the table trying to think of fun things that aren’t repeats it might be worth it to get. It is suppose to last 6 weeks, though I can see how some might finish everything much sooner. still though, for the cost it is worth it.

I plan to buy the Alphabet and the Day and Night units next.

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