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99 Things To Do Before Kindergarten
January 27, 2009
1. Go ice skating at Campus Martius 2. Do the giant slide at Belle Isle 3. Play on the playscape at Belle Isle 4. Have a picnic at Belle Isle 5. Go on a nature walk through the neighborhood 6. Have a two-park day -- go to one in the morning and one in the afternoon 7. Meet friends at Jungle Java 8. Go to storytime at Ladel's Books 9. Go to storytime at the Southfield Public Library in the space Read more...
Tuesday Top Five: Membership Gifts
December 16, 2008
Sometimes the best gifts are the ones that keep on giving all year. I know memberships and such are some of my favorite gifts to give -- and get! We all have so much stuff cluttering up our houses, and a chance to do something fun for free is a lot more valueable to me than yet another thing I have to care for, get batteries for, wash or trip over. Here are some of the better ones: Read more...
Michigan Grows Good Authors
November 05, 2008
Our national theme today is classic books. I'll be dealing with classic Michigan-themed books in a later post, but did you know there are several authors of classic children's books that either live in Michigan or have Michigan roots? For example, Chris Van Allsburg, who wrote classics The Polar Express and Jumanji , is a Grand Rapids native. And Nancy Shaw, author of the popular Read more...
Tuesday Top, Um, 26: The Detroit Alphabet
November 04, 2008
A is for Avalon Bakery -- Great treats, organic ingredients, and nice people. B is for Belle Isle. C is for Comerica Park. D is for Dequindre Cut -- The new path linking downtown with the Eastern Market area. E is for Eastern Market. F is for Family Hootenanny -- Grown up local bands playing music for little kids. G is for Glancy Trains -- Little kids are fascinated by this exhibit at the Read more...
Hola! Learn Stories and Songs in Spanish
October 20, 2008
Hispanic Heritage Month is over, as of last week. But celebrating the wonderful cultures of Latin Americans countries can happen anytime. because of shows like Dora, Diego and Handy Manny, kids today are much more exposed to Spanish than I ever was -- my daughter can count to ten in Spanish and knows several colors as well. Most of her friends can do the same. Unfortunately, it's super Read more...
Digging For Your Roots
September 24, 2008
Preschoolers are just learning about families beyond the people who live with them and care for them every day -- that (if they are lucky) those nice people who spoil them and love them to pieces are actually their parents' parents, and part of their family just like you or their brothers and sisters. If you're lucky enough to have your own grandparents still around as well, they can get an even Read more...
Read First, Dally Later
September 04, 2008
If you're here, you can read, and probably pretty well at that. You most likely read to your kids, enjoy books yourself, and maybe are even the kind of person who could happily spend a few hours in a library or at a bookstore (in which case, will you be my friend?). Likely, literacy is important to you -- and probably so central to your life you never even think about how you're fostering it Read more...
Summer Reads: Raccoon Tune
July 15, 2008
Summer reading time is here! Maybe it's the longer hours of daylight, or at least the fantasy of lazy afternoons relaxed on the patio with a good book, but I've always got a good stock of things I want to read come summer. And some years I even get through most of them. For my daughter, reading is such a part of her everyday life that the concept of "summer reading" does not occur to her as Read more...
Summer reading programs kick off
June 11, 2008
It's that time again 'summer reading program time! Libraries across the state, and actually across the country, are going with the theme Catch the Summer Reading Bug. I didn't know this, but a consortium of libraries nationwide chooses the theme each year and then develops high quality materials and activities around it that libraries can purchase at a reasonable cost. This saves individual Read more...
7 Must-Do Things Before Your Child Grows Up
May 29, 2008
What are the no-miss experiences for a Detroit kid? What are the five, or 10, or 100, things you must do with your child before they grow up? Here's what I've come up with, a mix of things I loved as a Detroit kid, things I love doing with my children, and things I haven't done yet but will. A day at the lake: Doesn't matter which lake, since we have a large amount to choose from around here, Read more...
Book Nooks for Tots
May 23, 2008
There's few more wonderful gifts you can give your child than a love of books, and wonderfully, it's not even expensive. A library card costs nothing, used books abound everywhere from garage sales to awesome musty-smelling stores all over, and even buying books new is inexpensive when you consider how long they will last compared to the latest plastic, noisy toy out there. Here a few of my Read more...
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