Welcome Deirdre from JDaniel4's Mom. She brought this post to my readers at Home Learning Journey while I am taking preparing for our new arrival to our family that is coming on 2/13/13. Here is a little info about Deirdre and what you can find at her site:
Deirdre Smith writes/owns JDaniel4’s Mom. After twenty years as a elementary school and technology resource teacher in Northern Virginia, she became a stay at home mom in upstate South Carolina. Her blog features ways she and her Read more [...] Guest Post: Groundhog’s Day – Animal Stick Puppets
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Welcome Deirdre from JDaniel4's Mom. She brought this post to my readers at Home Learning Journey while I am taking preparing for our new arrival to our family that is coming on 2/13/13. Here is a little info about Deirdre and what you can find at her site:
Deirdre Smith writes/owns JDaniel4’s Mom. After twenty years as a elementary school and technology resource teacher in Northern Virginia, she became a stay at home mom in upstate South Carolina. Her blog features ways she and her Read more [...] 
This week's mini social studies unit for letter M is all about Mexico. This is related to my family already, as I married into a 100% Mexican family, so my children are 1/2 Mexican. I try to teach them some Spanish words, they can listen and understand my in-law's when they speak to them in Spanish, and we introduce them to foods that my mother in-law cooks. My 20 month old particularly likes potato taquitos. My almost 4 year old can count to 10 in Spanish and knows some basic words such 
In this week’s addition for my tiny tot, you will find a bedtime book, gross motor skills combined with size and color learning, a YouTube song, and a water painting activity! Look below to see what we have for you!
Bedtime Reading:
This week's bedtime story was a big hit for Emilio (almost 20 months), as well as with his big sister! We have been reading Barnyard Dance by Sandra Boynton. Inside the book there are a lot of different animals you would find in a barn. If you read the book 
The Letter H addition is super late, thanks to the fact that my family and I just cannot get a break with sickness. My 18 month old is going on two weeks with a massive cold that he passed to me a week ago, and I am also still sick from it. It's awful. Anyway, never fear, I finally found the energy to continue my 3.5 year old's school stuff. So Letter H brings us the harp seal addition to our nature alphabet book!
To find some information on harp seals, Esmeralda and I looked at the