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Preschoolers can learn about nature with hands-on activities

by Becky

Tue
17
2008

Looking for activities for your preschoolers to learn about ecosystems, bugs and dinosaurs? Check these out. Interactive exhibits showcase ecosystems at Boyd Hill Nature Preserve / Lake Maggiore Environmental Education Center in St. Petersburg. Check the Web site or call (727) 893-7326 for more information. Go on a fossil dig at Dinosaur World in Plant City. Check the Web site or call (813) ... Read more >

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Books: favorite readalouds

by Becky

Tue
15
2008

Dinosaurumpus! By Tony Mitton For ages baby to preschool What's a dinosaurumpus? It's a whole lot of fun for little ones in a book written by Tony Mitton and illustrated by Guy Parker-Rees. Mitton was a schoolteacher specializing in special needs before writing children's books. My children adore this book as we read about dinosaurs twisting, dancing and having great time. (One of my ... Read more >

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It's Swaptember!

by Becky

Mon
15
2008

Do you have an annual membership to The Florida Aquarium, Lowry Park Zoo or MOSI? You can use it to get in free at any of the other places during the month of Swaptember. Check it out before Sept. 30! ... Read more >

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Becky

A native Nebraskan whose parents were teachers and always made her "look it up" in the dictionary, she married a Norwegian she met in college. She wound up in Tampa via Norway, where her fondest memories are of listening to a bar full of Norwegians sing every word to "American Pie" at closing time (the most English she heard at one time in two months) and explaining "Paradise By The Dashboard...Read more >

Caroline

Caroline is an over-thinking mom of two boys currently living under swaying palm trees in the sunny state of Florida. She grew up as a Foreign Service brat and spent half of her childhood in Africa. But alas, life got a little more typical once she settled down in the U.S. to attend college and eventually start a wonderful family of her own. In 2005, she moved her family from Boston to Florida....Read more >

Because a Great Book Helps Explain a Tough Subject

by BeingSavvy

November
20
2008

Oh, the tough stuff. Life with preschoolers means wading right into the hard stuff, sometimes on a daily basis. And what's perhaps most striking of all is just how much tough stuff there is!
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Top Ten Anywhere Anytime Activities on Savvy Source

  1. Backyard "Drive In" Movie Theatre
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  3. Give Me a Hard One to Guess
  4. Wacky Day
  5. Feelings Journal
  6. Simple Scavenger Hunt
  7. Picture a Good Choice Being Made
  8. Helping Game
  9. Spinning a Spiderweb
  10. Bowl-O-Fun

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