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A is for Always

April 2nd 2011 12:52
For 26 days in April (minus Sundays) I will be posting a blog for each letter of the alphabet.
"Sylvie's word of the day"
I am all for challenges, so when this was dangled in front of me in my writers group, I grabbed it.

Hundreds of people signed up, literally 1037 people. Go ahead, Sign up here, if you dare.

This mini adventure is fairly mundane, but with 1000 bloggers jumping in, stalking each other, chatting away everyday, something good is bound to happen.


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Always is my word of the day, in honor of ALWAYS learning. Life is too ....oh wait, I'll just quote Henry Miller, he said it best.....


"develop interest in life as you see it; in people, things, literature, music, the world is simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself." ~Henry Miller

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Coraline

November 20th 2009 01:26
My daughter loves the animated movie Coraline so loudly announced that it is Coraline week in our house giving me about five minutes notice to organise some activities for us to do.

Thankfully Coraline.com came to our aid and we were able to button eye images of both myself and my daughter as well as create online button flowers. There was also a fun print image in which the circus mice could also spell out my daughter's name.


We sat down to watch Coraline the movie for about the tenth time and if she was a little older I am sure she would enjoy the original novel from which the film was adapted from.

We also discovered a website which featured numerous Coraline pictures to colour and set out on a counting exercise to find out exactly how many windows and doors we had in our house.

Luckily I had some buttons set aside for just such a crafting exercise and we drew some dolls and created our very own button eyed dolls and button gardens.

It is amazing what you can come up with in five minutes if you put your mind to it!



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Send In The Clowns

May 24th 2009 02:59
Admittedly I am not a fan of clowns, preferring to see them at children's parties rather than adorned all over my wall. So the inclusion of Clown Week into our schedule took me a little by surprise to say the least.

Loonette and Molly from the Canadian Series, The Big Comfy Couch, are a particular favourite in our house so at least I had a starting point on which to base our activities. And in particular I love the concept of a 10-second tidy which we are going to incorporate with a clown based cleaning chart.

Craft wise - cardboard megaphones, bow ties and clown hats will be a feature and face painting and juggling will no doubt be a daily occurrence this week.

Focussing on expressions and feelings this week, this blank faced clown drawing is a great place to start as well as the easy paint activity of just drawing simple faces onto paper plates.

First School again came to our aid with numerous clown pictures, simple clown crafts and a number of easy clown related jigsaw puzzles. And we found a number of sites which provided us with counting, addition and pattern activities to build on our number skills.

The Dr Seuss story, If I Ran The Circus, will be introduced this week and the online children's library comes to our aid with The CIrcus Procession and The First Circus. For the younger readers, Cbeebies features an easy story for children entitled Where's My Hat? and a song entitled The Funniest Clown.



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Chinese Dragon Craft

May 22nd 2009 00:10
My daughter was so impressed with our dragon handprint craft earlier this week that she has requested that we make a second dragon craft for Chinese week.

So we are going to attempt to make this colourful dancing dragon. We purchased a fax paper roll in order to make our chinese fan and the roll will also be useful for the dragon's fan-like body.

I also introduced the story of Mulan to my daughter this week and for those not familiar, it is a retelling of an old Chinese folktale about the story of a young maiden who learns that her sick father is to be called up into the army in order to fight the invading Huns. Knowing that he would never survive the war due to his health, she decides to disguise herself and join in his place. And much to the delight of my daughter, it also features a dragon named Mushu who decides to help her in the perilous times ahead.
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Posted By: Michelle Sweeney - Category: Age 3-4, Age 4-6, Age 6-8, Craft, DVDs
   


This Week's Theme: China

May 17th 2009 09:34
My daughter has a fascination for all things Chinese. Firstly because we live there and secondly, because facets of the colourful culture appeal to her curious nature. Therefore it is no surprise that she selected China to base our activities upon this week.

Lanterns are already a popular craft activity in our house as is the children's television show Kai-Lan, and both will of course be featuring in our weekly activities. Nick Jnr has come to our aid in particular combining both lanterns and Kai-Lan in this fun online paper lantern activity as well as a number of other online games for children to play.

This week we are going to attempt this pretty chinese fan as well as a little home made kite. And provided the weather holds up, we are going to do some kite flying of our own. And if not then we can stay indoors and try some chinese themed jigsaw puzzles.

This handprint dragon looks like a great activity as well as this fun chopstick frame.

And of course we can't forget the chinese panda. First School has some very simple panda based colouring and craft activities suitable for ages 2-6. We also discovered some adorable lacing cards featuring a panda and an ox - particularly apt this year!

For more geographical based activities, we found a dot to dot activity as well as a Chinese flag collage activity.

Zai Jian!
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Posted By: Michelle Sweeney - Category: Age 3-4, Age 4-6, Age 6-8, Craft, DVDs
   


Little Mermaid Week

April 9th 2009 02:07
We are taking a theme from one of my daughter's books and are basing activities and stories throughout the week on the theme of her choice. Her choice this week - The Little Mermaid - apt for someone who currently wants to be a mermaid when she grows up!

Doing a quick search on the internet so far we have uncovered sheet music and lyrics for a number of the tracks including Part of Your World and Under The Sea
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