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Monday, June 17, 2013

Muppet Mania!

My kids each got a muppet last year for birthdays and we have built up quite a collection. Something about muppets is just...happy. It's gotta be the constant smile. I've written about it once found HERE. I really want one of those new Muppet kids found at Toys R Us. They are part of the FAO Schwarz line of toys. Looks like this:

Anyway...here are our new friends.

I love this picture so much!

Wednesday, June 12, 2013

Library's

As you know, I have a "thing" for cute libraries. Here is a door of a school library that I thought was creative.

Thursday, June 6, 2013

French Fry Mountain

Ever make up a new word or phrase? Well, in our family, we have what's called the French Fry Mountain where all fries go to one pile and is shared. I love my daughters face in the background. Looks yummy!

Saturday, June 1, 2013

I miss Elmo

Is it just me or do you feel a little guilty showing your kids Elmo because of recent allegations. Here are some of my favorite Elmo moments.

Singing to sleep:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lv38j4lPzd0

with guests:

Monday, May 27, 2013

Place Value

Tuesday, May 21, 2013

Second Grade Writing

I love second grade writing. Here is one of my daughter's latest homework assignments.

Dear Mom,

Shar your ice crem.

Blue mint and cookies n creme are tasty.

It tasts like mint.

My mom got it at ther colleges ice cream shop called

Anges ice cream which is famous.

It is great! With love from Haleigh

Thursday, May 16, 2013

Timpanogos Renaissance Festival

For girl scouts, my daughter was asked to do a service project by volunteering at the Timpanogos Renaissance Festival. She helped make rope made of old fabric. We followed that up with some snow cones and a walk around the park. Fun and free for volunteers.

Saturday, May 11, 2013

Baby Language

A friend of mine loaned me these two DVD's when I had my latest baby. I'd heard of the baby language one but not the happiest baby one. Oprah had done a special on the sounds babies use to communicate and this DVD is the teaching product from those creators. I found it to be long and a little over marketed. The five sounds did seem to make a lot of sense, but I still think that each mother can understand their baby's signals after a few days or weeks without it becoming so scientific.

The Happiest Baby movie explained the four steps that can help a parent to calm their baby using the 5 s's found HERE. I liked the swaddling part the best while the Shhh part was a little weird, I thought.

Monday, May 6, 2013

Preschool

This is my son Miles drawing from preschool. Can you guess what it is?

He is standing in a field of flowers.

Pretty good for a five year old!

Wednesday, May 1, 2013

Science Teachers

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Universal Quotes

“Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.”

--J.K Rowling Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

“A person can watch the sunrise, but he cannot slow it down or stop it or make it go backward.”

-Andrew Clements Frindle

“It’s hard not to immediately fall in love with a dog who has a good sense of humor.”

--Kate DiCamillo, Because of Winn Dixie.

“Your mind knows that you are going to Songdo. But you must not tell your body. It must think one hill, one valley, one day at a time. In that way, your spirit will not grow weary before you have even begun to walk. One day, one village. That is how you will go, my friend.”

--Linda Sue Park A Single Shard

“When you’re old and think you’re sweet take off your shoes and smell your feet.”

Richard Peck Long Way from Chicago

“Ah, Crispin, if I have learned one thing it’s that he who knows a bit of everything, knows nothing. But he who knows a little bit well, knows much of all.”

-Avi Crispin: The Cross of Lead

"You can boil your life down to a single suitcase, if you desperately have to.

Ask yourself what you really need, and it won't be what you imagine - you will

easily toss aside unfinished work, and bills, and your daily calendar....to make

room for the pair of flannel pajamas you wear when it rains, and the stone your

child gave you that is shaped like a heart, and the battered paperback you revist

every April, because it was what you were reading the first time you fell in love. It turns

out what's important is not everything you have accumulated all these years, but

those few things you can carry with you."

--Vanishing Acts by Jodi Picoult

"A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops."

-Henry Brooks Adams

"To be able to be caught up into the world of thought-that is being educated."

-Edith Hamilton

"We shouldn’t teach great books, we should teach a love of reading."

-B.F. Skinner

“I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient of living, it’s a way of looking through the wrong end of a telescope, what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life’s realities.”

-Dr. Seuss

“ A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children without surrounding them with books, if he has the means to buy them.”

--Horace Mann

“ I will not play tug o’war. I’d rather play hug o’war. Where everyone hugs instead of tugs, Where everyone giggles and rolls on the rug, Where everyone kisses, and everyone grins, and everyone cuddles, and everyone wins.”

--Shel Silverstein

“My older sister thinks she’s so pretty. I told her that no matter how much time she spends looking in the mirror, her face will always look just like her rear end.”

Diary of a Worm by Doreen Cronin

"Literature is my Utopia"

-Helen Keller

"Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of science."

-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"I shall be telling this with a sigh somewhere ages hence; two roads diverged in a wood, and I-I took the one less traveled by and that has made all the difference."

-Robert Frost, The Road Not Taken

“I could tell that she felt happy. Happiness is excitement that has found a settling down place, but there is always a little corner that keeps flapping around.”

The Mixed Up Files oF Basil E Frankweiler by E.L. Koningsburg pg. 151

“Edmund shook hands with each of the others and said to each of them in turn, ‘I’m sorry,” and everyone said, ‘That’s all right.’ And then everyone wanted very hard to say something which would make it quite clear that they were all friends with him again-something ordinary and natural- and of course no one could think of anything in the world to say.”

The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe , by C.S. Lewis, pg. 139

“I was thinking, as I watched her, how little it mattered- about her teeth, for instance. I know so many women who have kept all the things that she had lost, but whose inner glow has faded. Whatever else was gone, Antonia had not lost the fire of life.”

My Antonio by Willa Cather, p 261

“It seems to me that we can’t explain all the truly awful things in the world like war and murder and brain tumors, and we can’t fix there things, so we look at the frightening things that are closer to us and we magnify them until they burst open. Inside that we can manage, something that isn’t as awful as it had at first seemed. It is a relief to discover that although there might be axe murderers and kidnappers in the world, most people seem a lot like us: sometimes afraid and sometimes brave, sometimes cruel and sometimes kind. I decided that bravery is looking Pandora’s box full in the eye as best you can, and then turning to the other box, the one with the smooth beautiful folds inside…”

Walk Two Moons, by Sharon Creech, pg. 277

“You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You’re on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the guy who’ll decide where to go…And will you succeed? Yes! You will, indeed! (98 and ¾ percent guaranteed.)”

Oh! The Places You'll Go by Dr. Seuss, pg. 2, 40

“Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbably, must be the truth.”

Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

“Real isn’t how you are made,” said the Skin Horse. “It’s a thing that happens to you. When a child loves you for a long, long time, not just to play with, but REALLY loves you, then you become Real.” “Does it hurt?” asked the Rabbit. “Sometimes.” said the Skin Horse, for he was always truthful. “When you are Real you don’t mind being hurt.” “Does it happen all at once, like being wound up,” he asked, “or bit by bit?” “It doesn’t happen all at once,” said the Skin Horse. “You become. It takes a long time. That’s why it doesn’t happen often to people who break easily, or have sharp edges, or who have to be carefully kept. Generally, by the time you are Real, most of your hair has been loved off, and your eyes drop out and you get loose in your joints and very shabby. Bu these things don’t matter at all, because once you are Real you can’t be ugly, except to people who don’t understand.”

The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams

“There’s such a lot of different Annes in me. I sometimes think that is why I’m such a troublesome person. If I was just the one Anne it would be ever so much more comfortable, but then it wouldn’t be half so interesting.”

Anne of Green Gables, by Lucy Maud Montgomery

“…there is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.”

The Picture of Dorian Gray, by Oscar Wilde

“It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility; they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it."

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

“You are just a fool if you expect good thing all the time.”

The Great Gilly Hopkins by Katherine Patterson

“Uncle Alex had said that you can’t stop history from happening because the entire past tense is history. But future is choices and the choices of a single person can change future history.”

The Outcasts of 19 Schuyler Place by E.L. Koningsburg, pg. 164

“It is a fair, even-handed, noble adjustment of things, that while there is infection in disease and sorrow, there is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.”

A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, P 79

“…There is such sweetness inside of that book, too!” he said thoughtfully. “Such things…adventure, knowledge, and wisdom. But these things do not come easily. You have to pursue them. Just like we ran after the bees to find their tree, you must also chase these things through the pages of a book!”

The Bee Tree by Patricia Polacco

“It’s in the morning, for most of us. It’s that time, those few seconds when we’re coming out of sleep, but we’re not really awake yet, for those few moments we’re something more primitive than what we’re about to become, we have just slept the sleep of our distant ancestors, and something of them and their world still clings to us. For those few moments, we are unformed, uncivilized. We are not the people we know as ourselves, but creatures more in tuned with a tree than a keyboard. We are untilted, unnamed, natural, suspended between was and will be.”

Stargirl, by Jerry Spinelli

“And then I explain to him how naïve we were, that the world did know and remained silent. And that is why I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. Sometimes we must interfere. When human lives are endangered, when human dignity is in jeopardy, national borders and sensitivities become irrelevant. Whenever men and women are persecuted because of their race, religion or political views, that place must-at that moment-become the center of the universe.

NIGHT (FOREWARD: NOBEL PEACE PRIZE SPEECH)

“Some people spend all their time on vacation taking pictures so that when they get home they can show their friends evidence of hat they had a good time. They don’t pause to let the vacation enter inside of them and take that home.”

The Mixed Up Files oF Basil E Frankweiler by E.L. Koningsburg P 140

“ A person can watch the sunrise, but he cannot slow it down or stop it or make it go backward. And that is what I was trying to do with your word. I now see that this is the kind of chance that a teacher hopes for and dreams about-a chance to see bright young students take an idea they have learned in a boring old classroom and put it to a real test in their own world.”

Frindle by Andrew Clements p. 99

“Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can’t see where it keeps its brain.”

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling

“All that is gold does not glitter; not all those that wander are lost.”

The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R. Tolkien

“We don’t laugh at people’s dreams.”

Holes by Louis Sachar pg. 57

“I am a Bear of Very Little Brain, and long words bother me.”

Winnie the Pooh, A.A. Milne

“The more you read, the more things you will know. The more you learn, the more places you’ll go.”

I Can Read With My Eyes Shut by Dr. Seuss

“It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.”

Harry Potter and the Sorceror's Stoneby J.K. Rowling

“A little nonsense now and then is cherished by the wisest men.”

Charlie and the Chocoloate Factory by Roald Dahl

“Nothing ever seems interesting when it belongs to you-only when it doesn’t."

Tuck Everylasting by Natalie Babbitt

“It is our choices…that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”

Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling