Toddlers are always on the move. Yet, both of my own little ones LOVED books at that age. Though, reading stories wasn’t on their agenda… eating them (literary) seemed a lot more enticing. While we didn’t end up eating any books (phew!), reading them together didn’t immediately happen as I was dreaming…
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Some more presentations from Isa: want cards – things that kids like to do, such as playing hockey, playing chess, flying kytes, etc. Randomizer is included and presentation can be viewed in English, Spanish, or German with or without the pictures.
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This is a wonderful website with free phonics books. Registration is required, but it is free. I skimmed through it – pictures look funny, words – useful. So, if phonics is your teaching to read method of choice or you just want to do both – check it out: Progressive Phonics.
I was able to find another file with paintings by El Greco among Isa’s fantastic collection. The file is updated with information about El Greco, some fascinating comparisons of his works with modern artists (scroll to the end), and even the randomizer template is updated for all three languages. Enjoy:
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As I was reviewing the terrific presentations that were sent by Isa, I found a few that I just couldn’t wait to post. This is one of them:
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Scientists dedicated 14 days of extremely expensive and precious time of the Hubble telescope for taking photos of… nothing. They pointed the telescope to a part of the sky, that was absolutely black, with no stars or other celestial bodies. When the images came back, they were up for a surprise…
Hubble Ultra Deep Field 3D video
This video is really fascinating even for a non-astronomy oriented person like me. My 5 year old was curious to see the details, though I had to stop and to “translate” it to his level. Nevertheless, I liked both the astronomy aspect of this video, and the idea of thinking outside of the box.
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How do you add music to your daily life? In one of my favorite Yahoo groups, MontessoriMusic, this discussion brought up many ideas. You can read about our own latest approach and download our free materials at the end. 
Every year we host a Halloween party. Every year kids gather at our house for some very special way to celebrate it… This is a list of things that we do with 3 to 6 year olds.