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The One Minute Rocket Ship Your Child Will Absolutely Love only on Spaghetti Box Kids.

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Tinker, fidget, fix. Where's your science today? Make a catapult out of household items...it only takes a few minutes. Catapult Designs for Kids only on Spaghetti Box Kids.

When considering whether to expose your toddler to rigorous scholastic instruction, consider this: Finland enjoys the highest standard of education in the world and their children don't start school until age 7.

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The Amazing One Minute Crane Your Child Will Love on Spaghetti Box Kids

$Math Games with Dice$

Math Games with Dice
Simple, fun, effective. Games for all levels. . .on Spaghetti Box Kids.

Structured vs Unstructured Play:
Is That What Really Matters?

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Kids' Art: Open Composition
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Entries from October 2008

Kids’ Art: The Sun

October 28th, 2008 · 2 Comments

The sun is a unique subject for a kids’ art project. Because nobody really looks at it, your child has more opportunity to exercise creative expression.

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Kids’ Science: What If an Elephant Sat on it?

October 21st, 2008 · 3 Comments

Classifying and interpreting data go hand in hand with scientific procedure. This kids’ science activity rings with laughter in the process of analyzing household items.

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Kids’ Art: Making Halloween Spider Webs

October 14th, 2008 · 4 Comments

Here’s a kids’ Halloween art project that’s fun and easy and looks great around the house. Be prepared– your child will want to do this project over and over!

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The Fabulous One Minute Robot Your Child Will Love

October 7th, 2008 · 4 Comments

Here’s a kids’ activity that’s sure to become a household favorite. It offers your child a fun filled opportunity to navigate a robot through the house without causing it to “malfunction.” Don’t worry, the robot is so easy you can put it together in about one minute.

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- Campign for America's Kids Short article illuminates poor frustration tolerance resulting from constant instant gratification (via elctronic gadgets).
- NPR: Old-Fashioned Play Builds Serious Skills Research compares very different styles of play.
- Old Time Radio- Cinnamon Bear Free 1937 radio series for kids (opens with default media player). Wonderful, wholesome stories. Thoroughly enjoyable.
- Play=Learning- Free Pdf Book This publication emerged from Play=Learning 2005 converence at Yale University. Recommend at least reading the Prologue.
- Reading is Fundamental Reading List Reading is Fundamental and American Library Association recommended reading list.
- Standardized Testing Former Assistant Secretary of Education Diane Ravitch offers insight.

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Jody ran into the kitchen. “We got a letter!” he cried.

His mother looked up from a pan of beans. “Who has?”

“Father has. I saw it in his hand.”

Carl strode into the kitchen then, and Jody’s mother asked, “Who’s the letter from, Carl?”

He frowned quickly. “How did you know there was a letter?”

She nodded her head in the boy’s direction. “Big-Britches Jody told me.” Jody was embarrassed.

His father looked down at him contemptuously. “He is getting to be a Big-Britches,” Carl said. “He’s minding everybody’s business but his own. Got his big nose into everything.”

Mrs. Tiflin relented a little. “Well, he hasn’t enough to keep him busy. Who’s the letter from?”

-John Steinbeck
The Red Pony
Chapter Four:
The Leader of the People

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