We’ve loved the original Magic School Bus books by Joanna Cole and Bruce Degen (not the novelizations of the TV episodes) for a long time, but I only recently found out that they’ve written three history titles starring Miss Frizzle as well.
So far we’ve read Miss Frizzle’s Adventures: Ancient Egypt and Miss Frizzle’s Adventures: Medieval [...]
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Tonight Uncle Bill came over to make an electromagnet with Alex. They’ve been planning to do this since the day Alex came in with a slinky wrapped around a rectangular block and told us that it was “a pretend electrical magnet. Here’s the magnet, and this spring is the wire for the electric current to [...]
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I feel like Alex has been on the cusp of reading for so long. She’s known all the letters and letter sounds for a long time. She’s had a handful of sight words, mostly names, since she was two. There have been a number of times that Michael and I have wondered if she can [...]
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Alex and I have continued to do intermittent math play with Cuisenaire rods.
She has a great grasp now of how the rods relate to each other. This seems to have developed through casual free play and building. She had initially backed off from the game where you put two rods together and try to add [...]
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