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Who Pooped dot Org

I found a fun site today via Twitter that I bet your kids will just love! And it may just crack them up, too! It's called WhoPooped.org and while you are there, you can learn some fun facts about poop. And guess what else? When you're done ...

Activities : Plant Your Name with Seeds!

Image by Tie Guy II via FlickrThis is a really super cool activity that will help kids with reading AND science! I would love to do this with my own name - so much fun! Gardening is such a fun activity to do with your kids and it provides so ...

Underwater Volcano Eruption

You have got to see this video - it's truly amazing! It is an undersea volcano erupting! .msnbcLinks {font-size:11px; font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #999; margin-top: 5px; background: transparent; text-align: center; width: 425px;} .msnbcLinks a {text-decoration:none !important; border-bottom: 1px dotted #999 !important; font-weight:normal !important; height: 13px;} .msnbcLinks a:link, .msnbcLinks a:visited {color: ...

Valentines Day Science AND Craft Fun With Steve Spangler

I absolutely love this - Steve Spangler and his friend, Harmony Conger, are combining three very cool things for a great activity to do with your kids! It's a wonderful mix of: VALENTINES DAY + SCIENCE + CRAFTS = FUN, FUN, FUN!! And the cool thing is, the kids get to ...

Educational Technology

I found the most wonderful blog today, via Twitter! Welcome to NCS-Tech! There was so much good stuff on there that I felt like a kid in a candy store! There was a very helpful post about how educators can get Google Earth PRO for FREE - and I've ...

How to Raise an Early Reader

Every parent wants the best start for their children in this life – whether it’s in what we’re able to give them that we didn't have, or even the type of education they receive. This is also true for the start we give them when it comes to reading. Studies ...

Wayside School - Season One

I've talked here at The Bookworm Broadcast about how much I love the book, "Sideways Stories from Wayside School" and how excited I was (cautiously) that it was made into a television cartoon. There definitely was potential there, with all the goofy stories! As a bookworm, though, ...

Tricky Sentence Exercise

Image via Wikipedia My sixth grader came home today with an interesting, and very tricky, sentence exercise that she had worked on in class. And now she is doing another one to try and 'trick' her teacher - as her teacher was not at all tricked by the one ...

The Perfect End Table for Mrs. Lisa

I found the most perfect end table EVER this morning online! I want one so badly, that it's just killing me! And the whole thing is my friend, Julie's, fault! Gosh! She is apparently nesting in honor of our friend, Eve, who's due to give birth ...

Back to School Again!

I can't believe it is already time to send my little monsters sweethearts off to school again! Summertime goes so fast nowadays. And really, that's true - because, they barely get more than two months, the poor little buggers! It doesn't seem like that long ago that ...