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Wanted to make sure to start yearly interviews, a way of remembering some fun facts about you at the start of every school year.  I saw a lot of different versions of these interviews, but this was the layout (with a couple tweaks) that I liked best. Eventually, we’ll put your interviews from every year […]

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I have great memories of homemade play dough, afternoons sitting on the tall stools next to the butcher block center island of my childhood home, endless cookie cutters and colors, and the occasional sampling to see if it still tasted as bad as I remember from the last time I tried to eat it. The […]

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Pick up Bin One of the activity bins I put together for you this month is another dollar store investment. This one cost 2 bucks – one dollar for the bug zoo, one dollar for the plastic bugs. The little zoo came with a little net (which was broken and I immediately had to hand […]

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 The simplest thing, just a couple bags of dollar store plastic fall leaves. We don’t get the beautiful autumn colors here (SIGH). Someday we will take you to New England to see what fall really looks like. The Northwest is beautiful too, but nothing compares to the Northeast when it comes to the third season […]

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