What I've Been Wearing

I hope you all had a wonderful week. The weather here was glorious. Mid 70's all week, which is almost unheard of in the midwest! We spent most of the week outside: lots walks, bike rides, and picnics on the porch. This summer I organized a local playground tour group and this what wore for a weekly meet-up.

swaeater: thrift (similar $30) necklace: target (similar $36 or similar $14),
pants: ann taylor loft (similar $70), shoes: target (similar $70)

We did have one rainy day this week and so, I used it as an excuse to wear my umbrella shirt...even though I don't teach preschool anymore I still sometimes like to dress like I do :)

shirt: h&m, cardigan: target (same), jeans: hand-me-downs (same), shoes: thrift (similar $58)

I've had this dress for 8 years now. It was my first and one of my few full price Anthropologie purchases. It super comfortable and always makes me feel pretty, therefore, I've discovered lots of ways to style it.

A lot of times, in the sumer, though, I just wear it by itself with some simple sandals. I, however, noticed this floral shirt really complimented the red and so I paired them together for church.

necklace: target (similar $19, similar $50, similar $19), cardigan: target (same), shirt: thrift
dress: anthropologie (similar $200 or similar $90), shoes: thrift (similar $30 or similar $35)

Want more? Check out these link parties to see lots of other ladies having fun with their clothes: Watch What I'm Wearing, Monday Mingle, Style Sessions, What I Wore Wednesday, and Favorite Fashion Friday, 101 things Link Up.

A Little Red Cardboard Barn

We've finished our farm unit and are moving on to a new theme tomorrow - but before we do I wanted share the barn we made. The wooden farm animals came with a beautiful handmade ark that we gave Big Buddy for Christmas a couple years ago. I would someday love to have a wood barn but it's currently not in the budget. So in the mean time we decided to improvise and make our own. I stumbled upon this perfectly sized milk box (4 gallons per box) while subbing and thought it would be sturdy enough to handle play. Hubandie and the boys used an x-acto knife and wood glue to build a barn shape. to get the doors to fold out hubandie used an x-acto knife and scored the inside of the cardboard We then painted with a basic primer and outlined a window and a door with painters tape. cardboard is very porous so priming is a must if you want decent coverage Big Buddy however insisted that we add more windows so it looked like the barn in our book The Big

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Preschool Syllabus: Dr. Seuss

Normally I'd do a Dr. Seuss unit in March around his birthday. We had to do one now though because on Saturday Big Buddy and I going on a date to a Dr. Seuss exhibit . The exhibit is only at the museum until January and I'm afraid if we don't go now we might not get the chance. We are of course reading lots of Dr. Seuss's books. A great advatage to studying Dr. Seuss in November rather than March is that all his books were available at the library. I also found a great children's biography which is perfect for preschoolers. Pebble First Biographies: Dr. Seuss We've read it a couple times and Big Buddy loves reciting all the facts he's learned WRITING CENTER ADDITIONS big buddy's name in sand paper letters, coloring pages & mazes from seussville.com skills practiced: fine motor, letter recognition, creativity, reading comprehension LEARNING "TRAYS" - I rotate these, setting out about four a day from which the boy&#

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Jack-O-Lanterns on the Fridge

Last fall I saw the idea for refrigerator pumpkins with face pieces in FamilyFun Magazine and have been anxious to recreate them ever since. It was pretty quick and easy and since the only thing we didn't have on hand was magnetic sheets ($1.50 with coupon at Joann's) it was also very cheap. my supplies: magnetic sheets, orange & black construction paper, white pen, tacky glue *i know they have self adhesive sheets but my Joann's didn't carry them glued (very messily) and ready to cut Both the boys were quite enthused when they discovered them after rest time :) Hopefully it will keep them entertained until we carve real pumpkins.

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