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This is a really super cool activity that will help kids with reading AND science! I would love to do this with my own name – so much fun! Gardening is such a fun activity to do with your kids and it provides so many learning opportunities, but, this is a very unique way that it can help your child with his/her reading skills! I love it!

From the site:

Kindergarteners spend hours and hours reading, writing and exploring the sounds in their own names, and in those of their classmates. Teachers love to use names to help reinforce key skills in early reading instruction… and parents can help!

Seriously, this looks like a lot of fun! Go there now: Activities : Plant Your Name with Seeds!

I found this activity – written by Julie Williams – on Education.com

Recently at school, Sammie and her classmates celebrated Read Around the Clock. Have you ever heard of this before? I think it’s so cute! We didn’t do this in Texas, although we did do something similar. Anyway, for Read Around the Clock day, the kids brought books, blankets, pillows, and their favorite stuffed animals to school.

Oh, and check out this cute graphic I found on the web for it:

Isn’t he cute? Ok, so back to Sammie’s day – they were allowed to bring all their favorite cozy stuff, and they spent the majority of the day all comfy and reading! Doesn’t that sound heavenly?

I think she said they went to PE, lunch, and music, and other than that – it was all reading! I just think it’s too bad they didn’t invite the parents! I would love a day for nothing but reading! I might have to just put one on my schedule over the Christmas holidays!

I was online looking at dog supplies when I found the coolest Kong toy! I love Kong toys anyway – I think they are simply genius! The toy that I found would be so perfect for my mother’s dogs. She leaves the house and goes to work all day, leaving the dogs home to get into all kinds of mischief, and if there’s one thing those dogs are good at – it’s mischief!

Here’s the toy that just might help them out!

They call it KongTIME and it dispenses four different Kong toys at different times throughout the day. And you can, of course, fill the Kong toys with yummy goodness for your dogs!

I could have used this recently myself – my parents were here visiting and we were taking them out for the day sightseeing. As we left the house, I grabbed three dog biscuits and plopped them down in different places through the house. I couldn’t make them too hidden, or in rooms or areas I knew he wouldn’t go, but, I hoped it would take him at least a little while to discover each of them. Ha! You try ‘hiding’ biscuits from a nosy 120 pound dog! He found them all before we even left the driveway! So I know we could benefit from one of these,too.

My only reservation would be to wonder of what material the dispenser itself is made. The reason that Kong toys are so popular is because they are indestructible. And I think I know a dog or two, not mentioning any names here (*ahem* Jake *cough* Randy) who would love to rip the dispenser to shreds, if possible! And then they could have those darn Kong toys whenever they wanted!

We went to our town Christmas parade last night and it was so much fun! My oldest son was in the parade, with his high school marching band. And there is an awesome coffee shop in the town square where we were watching it from. I had the most delicious chicken salad sandwich and a yummy coffee.

The theme of the parade was ‘A Country Christmas’ and there were all kinds of ‘floats’ entered in the fun procession! There were very dirty muddin’ trucks, a funeral parlor limousine, and even a miniature carousel. There was even a truck from the Coop – I’m pretty sure that’s where my mother-in-law buys her horse riding apparel. I just love saying it – ‘the Coop’. It makes me feel so country, like an official, bonafide small-towner! I just love it – but, I’m a dork like that!

It is really just so sad, but, lately no matter how early I go to bed, I can NOT read! I can’t stand it!

Last night I went to bed at 9:30 and I really wanted to read just this one little article in my magazine that had just come in the mail – Website Magazine. I wanted to read the article about the controversy that is brewing around the internet, more specifically the blogosphere, about a certain type of advertising.

And I could barely read the first few paragraphs without falling asleep! I don’t think I even read the first column without just completely conking out!

And here is where it gets really sad – about a week ago, I went to bed at 7:30. That’s right, folks – 7:30pm. I completely thought I would get to relax in bed and read for at least a couple hours.

Do you think that happened? Nope. I was out – like a light!

I want to read – someone un-sleepify me!!
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