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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;"><b>Play Dough</b></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;"><b>What You Will need for Play Dough?</b></span><br />
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<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;">Some good recipes, You can add color and smells with food color , powder paint and food flavors ,(see below)</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;">Enough dough, melon sized, to pound, pull, pinch and punch for each child.<a name='more'></a></span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;">A wipe clean surface</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;">Offering dough on its own is important, Later little rolling pins (sawn up brush shaft) cutters, blunt knives, spoons and rakes can be set out with dough.</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;">Lidded air-tight container for storage</span></li>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763; font-size: large;">What is your role?</span><br />
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<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;">Let the children assists you with mixing up the dough</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;">To have the dough and other implements ready for the child</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;">To encourage your child and admire his/her efforts</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;">To be on hand to offer the right words if required - and give ideas to extend the play</span></li>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763; font-size: large;">Why Dough Play?</span></div>
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<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;">Children love playing with it. It can be very soothing!</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;">It is very versatile, cheap and easily made at home</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;">Touch is sense young children use <b>more </b>than adults to experience and learn about their world. Through dough play children begin to understand ideas or size, weight and volume while using fingers, hands and wrists.</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;">Language development - big, little, long, short, flat, lumpy, more, less, shapes and eventually shades, colors and textures.</span></li>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763; font-size: large;"><b>Basic dough</b>:</span></div>
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<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;">3 cups plain flour</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;">1 cup of salt</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;">Water to mix, with a little food color added</span></li>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;">Mix all together to a pastry consistency. This does not keep well.</span></div>
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<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;">2 cups plain flour</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;">2 cups salt</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;">2 tablespoons wallpaper paste (non fungicidal)</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;">1 cup water</span></li>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;">Mix ingredients together & knead until smooth. Make shapes and models and allow them to harden overnight, then bake in the oven 200 F or 100 C for 3-4 hours</span></div>
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<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;">4 cups plain flour</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;">2 cups salt</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;">2 teaspoons cream of tartar</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;">4 cups water (food color added)</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;">1/2 cup cooking oil</span></li>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;">Mix ingredients in saucepan & stir over a medium heat, until mixture thickens & combines into one lump. Tip onto a pastry board & when cool knead smooth. This keeps well, in an airtight container.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #073763;"><a href="http://e-childcare.blogspot.hu/2012/08/the-perfect-play-dough-recipe.html" target="_blank">Another perfect playdough recipe</a></span></div>
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Kids practice putting shapes together with this airplane tangram. Perfect for helping early learners practice how shapes fit together to form larger shapes, this tangram puzzle requires critical thinking skills that every kid should practice. Plus, it helps children master early shape recognition, despite size or orientation.<br />
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Print the attached pattern cards, cut and laminate.<br />
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Have the children use the pattern pieces below to recreate the picture on the pattern card. </div>
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opportunity to organize activities about our environment. The smallest can
easily distinguish the sea and the land on the following painting activity. Use
blue for all seas and oceans and green paint for the land. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "cabin" , serif; font-size: 17pt;"><span style="color: #073763;">How many oceans are there? </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "cabin" , serif; font-size: 17pt;"><span style="color: #073763;">What are the seven continents and five oceans of the world?</span></span></div>
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Traditional party food, such a cakes, sausages, influence kids's behavior. Better to try some healthy food also, especially when you have so much sweets around the house.<br />
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Egg is one of the nutritious food. You can offer it in different ways.<br />
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<div class="blogger-post-footer">Talk to you soon.</div>ZsuZsahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10556463194263138550noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-405127600005829308.post-68230509342846196322015-06-01T13:52:00.002-07:002015-07-05T14:18:51.950-07:00Father's Day:Celebrate father's day with storytelling<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: #660000;">Celebrate father's day with a storytelling. Popular Short Story for Children is:The Adventures of Pinocchio. Geppetto loves Pinocchio, and he gives his own breakfast and ABC book to him. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000; line-height: 19.5px;">"Book s and stories are important in all part of Physical, Intellectual, Language, Emotional and Social development.</span></div>
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<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: #660000;">For <b>physical</b> development book helps to develop gross-, and fine motor skills and hand-eye coordination (e.g.: pointing at the picture).</span></li>
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: #660000;">For <b>intellectual</b> development book helps to learn about the word as it gives new information. Books promote thinking, memorising and fantasy. Books play a very important role in intellectual development. Books help in imagination, concentration, gives new knowledge or with repetition children can easily memorise words, which will help them in their further studying.</span></li>
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: #660000;"><b><span lang="EN-IE">Language</span></b><span lang="EN-IE"> development is mainly based on books. And this concerns to both spoken and the written language. Through storytelling children learn sounds, rhythms that occur in language, signs and symbols, but most importantly children learn to listen carefully.</span></span></li>
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: #660000;">In relation to <b>emotional</b> development as these stories are enjoyable children will have their favourite characters, and they can feel empathy with the characters. During story time children will laugh, scream, shout etc. as they interact with the story teller, they show the characters’ feelings with enthusiasm. Books provide a reach imaginative world and it gives a great pleasure to the child. Story telling is often a rest time before sleep.</span></li>
<li style="margin: 0px 0px 0.25em; padding: 0px;"><span style="color: #660000;">Story telling is often happens in small groups, where children can improve their <b>social</b> development. They interact with the group, learn turn taking, sharing and plenty things about the society, and moral codes. Also children learn respect for books."</span></li>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">“After they had gone another mile, Pinocchio heard the same little low voice saying to him:</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">'Bear it in mind, simpleton! Boys who refuse to study, and turn their backs upon books, schools, and masters, to pass their time in play and amusements, sooner or later come to a bad end... I know it by experience... and I can tell you. A day will come when you will weep as I am weeping now... but then it will be too late!...'</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">On hearing these words whispered very softly, the puppet, more frightened than ever, sprang down from the back of his donkey and went and took hold of his mouth.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #181818; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 18px;">Imagine his surprise when he found that the donkey was crying... and he was crying like a boy!” </span><br />
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The Adventures of Pinocchio - Chapter 30</h1>
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Coming at last out of the surprise into which the Fairy's words had thrown him, Pinocchio asked for permission to give out the invitations.</div>
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"Indeed, you may invite your friends to tomorrow's party. Only remember to return home before dark. Do you understand?"</div>
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"I'll be back in one hour without fail," answered the Marionette.</div>
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"Take care, Pinocchio! Boys give promises very easily, but they as easily forget them."</div>
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"But I am not like those others. When I give my word I keep it."</div>
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"We shall see. In case you do disobey, you will be the one to suffer, not anyone else."</div>
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"Why?"</div>
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"Because boys who do not listen to their elders always come to grief."</div>
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"I certainly have," said Pinocchio, "but from now on, I obey."</div>
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"We shall see if you are telling the truth."</div>
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Without adding another word, the Marionette bade the good Fairy good-by, and singing and dancing, he left the house.</div>
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In a little more than an hour, all his friends were invited. Some accepted quickly and gladly. Others had to be coaxed, but when they heard that the toast was to be buttered on both sides, they all ended by accepting the invitation with the words, "We'll come to please you."</div>
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Now it must be known that, among all his friends, Pinocchio had one whom he loved most of all. The boy's real name was Romeo, but everyone called him Lamp-Wick, for he was long and thin and had a woebegone look about him.</div>
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Lamp-Wick was the laziest boy in the school and the biggest mischief-maker, but Pinocchio loved him dearly.</div>
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That day, he went straight to his friend's house to invite him to the party, but Lamp-Wick was not at home. He went a second time, and again a third, but still without success.</div>
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Where could he be? Pinocchio searched here and there and everywhere, and finally discovered him hiding near a farmer's wagon.</div>
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"What are you doing there?" asked Pinocchio, running up to him.</div>
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"I am waiting for midnight to strike to go--"</div>
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"Where?"</div>
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"Far, far away!"</div>
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"And I have gone to your house three times to look for you!"</div>
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"What did you want from me?"</div>
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"Haven't you heard the news? Don't you know what good luck is mine?"</div>
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"What is it?"</div>
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"Tomorrow I end my days as a Marionette and become a boy, like you and all my other friends."</div>
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"May it bring you luck!"</div>
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"Shall I see you at my party tomorrow?"</div>
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"But I'm telling you that I go tonight."</div>
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"At what time?"</div>
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"At midnight."</div>
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"And where are you going?"</div>
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"To a real country--the best in the world--a wonderful place!"</div>
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"What is it called?"</div>
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"It is called the Land of Toys. Why don't you come, too?"</div>
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"I? Oh, no!"</div>
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"You are making a big mistake, Pinocchio. Believe me, if you don't come, you'll be sorry. Where can you find a place that will agree better with you and me? No schools, no teachers, no books! In that blessed place there is no such thing as study. Here, it is only on Saturdays that we have no school. In the Land of Toys, every day, except Sunday, is a Saturday. Vacation begins on the first of January and ends on the last day of December. That is the place for me! All countries should be like it! How happy we should all be!"</div>
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"But how does one spend the day in the Land of Toys?"</div>
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"Days are spent in play and enjoyment from morn till night. At night one goes to bed, and next morning, the good times begin all over again. What do you think of it?"</div>
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"H'm--!" said Pinocchio, nodding his wooden head, as if to say, "It's the kind of life which would agree with me perfectly."</div>
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"Do you want to go with me, then? Yes or no? You must make up your mind."</div>
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"No, no, and again no! I have promised my kind Fairy to become a good boy, and I want to keep my word. Just see: The sun is setting and I must leave you and run. Good-by and good luck to you!"</div>
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"Where are you going in such a hurry?"</div>
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"Home. My good Fairy wants me to return home before night."</div>
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"Wait two minutes more."</div>
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"It's too late!"</div>
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"Only two minutes."</div>
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"And if the Fairy scolds me?"</div>
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"Let her scold. After she gets tired, she will stop," said Lamp-Wick.</div>
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"Are you going alone or with others?"</div>
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"Alone? There will be more than a hundred of us!"</div>
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"Will you walk?"</div>
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"At midnight the wagon passes here that is to take us within the boundaries of that marvelous country."</div>
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"How I wish midnight would strike!"</div>
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"Why?"</div>
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"To see you all set out together."</div>
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"Stay here a while longer and you will see us!"</div>
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"No, no. I want to return home."</div>
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"Wait two more minutes."</div>
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"I have waited too long as it is. The Fairy will be worried."</div>
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"Poor Fairy! Is she afraid the bats will eat you up?"</div>
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"Listen, Lamp-Wick," said the Marionette, "are you really sure that there are no schools in the Land of Toys?" "Not even the shadow of one."</div>
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"Not even one teacher?"</div>
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"Not one."</div>
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"And one does not have to study?"</div>
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"Never, never, never!"</div>
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"What a great land!" said Pinocchio, feeling his mouth water. "What a beautiful land! I have never been there, but I can well imagine it."</div>
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"Why don't you come, too?"</div>
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"It is useless for you to tempt me! I told you I promised my good Fairy to behave myself, and I am going to keep my word."</div>
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"Good-by, then, and remember me to the grammar schools, to the high schools, and even to the colleges if you meet them on the way."</div>
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"Good-by, Lamp-Wick. Have a pleasant trip, enjoy yourself, and remember your friends once in a while."</div>
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"But are you sure that, in that country, each week is composed of six Saturdays and one Sunday?"</div>
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"Very sure!"</div>
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"And that vacation begins on the first of January and ends on the thirty-first of December?"</div>
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"Very, very sure!"</div>
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"What a great country!" repeated Pinocchio, puzzled as to what to do.</div>
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"Good-by for the last time, and good luck."</div>
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"Good-by."</div>
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"How soon will you go?"</div>
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"Within two hours."</div>
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"What a pity! If it were only one hour, I might wait for you."</div>
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"And the Fairy?"</div>
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"By this time I'm late, and one hour more or less makes very little difference."</div>
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"Poor Pinocchio! And if the Fairy scolds you?"</div>
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"Oh, I'll let her scold. After she gets tired, she will stop."</div>
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In the meantime, the night became darker and darker. All at once in the distance a small light flickered. A queer sound could be heard, soft as a little bell, and faint and muffled like the buzz of a far-away mosquito.</div>
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"There it is!" cried Lamp-Wick, jumping to his feet.</div>
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"What?" whispered Pinocchio.</div>
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"The wagon which is coming to get me. For the last time, are you coming or not?"</div>
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"But is it really true that in that country boys never have to study?"</div>
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"Never, never, never!"</div>
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"What a wonderful, beautiful, marvelous country! Oh--h--h!!"</div>
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<span style="color: #660000;">Monday - Moon day</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000;">So just go ahead and create your own firs calendar from a kitchen paper towel roll or a tin foil roll and plastic bottle caps.</span></h4>
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Mix together into a large bowl and knead it until smooth and stretchy. This last part is important otherwise the dough remains sticky and quite granular from the salt. If it is still too sticky add a bit more flour, if too dry and crumbly then add a tiny touch more water. A little bit of trial and error is all that is needed and it really is so easy!<br />
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<li><span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.559999465942383px;">1 cup salt</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.559999465942383px;">1/2 cup cream of tartar</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.559999465942383px;">4 cups water</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.559999465942383px;">1/4 cup oil</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.559999465942383px;">food coloring</span></li>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21.559999465942383px;"> Add food coloring and glitter and knead until thoroughly mixed. Keeps for weeks in a airtight container. Makes about 4 cups of play dough.</span><br />
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Children love to work with them, and makes them happy.<br />
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My favourite recipe is "The Perfect Play Dough", it really last long, has the best texture.<br />
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Here are the things you need for the cooked Play Dough:<br />
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<li>1 tablespoon oil</li>
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Here I gave some cake decorating tools for kids, as they are as good as the toys. :)<br />
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<a name='more'></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #660000; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">Paint the paper with brown and fold it in half.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: white; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;" /><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"><span style="line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">Attach two head shapes with hand-craft glue. Attach the eyes to face. Use thread for the tail and attach with craft glue.</span></span></span><br />
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Horsie, horsie don't you stop,<br />
Just let your feet go clippety clop,<br />
Your tail goes swish and the wheels go round,<br />
Giddy up we're homeward bound.<br />
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Steady Neddy off you trot,<br />
Just let your feet go clippety clop,<br />
Your tail goes swish and the wheels go round,<br />
Giddy up we're off to town.<br />
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Horsie, horsie don't you stop,<br />
Just let your feet go clippety clop,<br />
Your tail goes swish and the wheels go round,<br />
Giddy up we're homeward bound.</div>
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica;">This rabbit is a simple cut and colour paper craft that is fun for young children to make. It makes a great project for preschool and kindergarten kids and works well for an animals, pets, Easter theme.</span><br />
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· <span style="color: #660000;"> To begin this activity, take a paper plate and paint it red.</span><br />
<span style="color: #660000;">· Splash some black paint on to make the spots.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000;">· Cut a circle of black paper for the head</span><br />
<span style="color: #660000;">· Glue the parts together.</span><br />
<span style="color: #660000;">· Hang to dry.</span><br />
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<b><span style="color: #660000;">Easter Egg paint preparation:</span></b><br />
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<span style="color: #660000;">Before painting, wash the eggs thoroughly with detergent and then rinse</span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000;">Then wash your hands thoroughly too!</span><br />
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<b><span style="color: #660000;">Easter Egg Cooking:</span></b><br />
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<span style="color: #660000;">If you want to eat the eggs, cook them further then the average. (At least half an hour. )</span><br />
<span style="color: #660000;">Add 4 tablespoons of salt to the 1 l of water!</span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000;">The eggs may be coloured or traditionally prepared food colouring, natural solutions.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000;">The longer the eggs leave the colouring solution, the deeper and longer lasting colour is achieved.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000;">If you are using food colouring in a bowl, stir 1 / 4 teaspoon of food colouring 3/4 cup hot water and 1 tablespoon vinegar. The eggs should be placed in the colours.</span><br />
<span style="color: #660000;">Let the Easter Eggs to soak until the desired color is reached (You even can leave the Easter Eggs in the refrigerator for all night).</span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000;">Once the Easter Eggs are dried polish them with soft oily cloth.</span><br />
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<li><span style="color: #660000;">Pink:Place the boiled eggs in cooled rose hip tea </span></li>
<li><span style="color: #660000;">Auburn: Cook onion for half an hour in water, filter it, and then put the hot cooked eggs to the water</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #660000;">Purple: Do the same with red onions </span></li>
<li><span style="color: #660000;">Bordeaux: soak the eggs in beetroot juice</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #660000;">Blue: soak the eggs in red cabbage juice </span></li>
<li><span style="color: #660000;">Yellow: pale yellow color can be achieved with orange peel. Cook in the orange peel for 20 minutes then add the eggs. </span></li>
<li><span style="color: #660000;">Green: put the eggs into the cooled spinach juice (30 minutes after cooking). </span></li>
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<span style="color: #660000;">Add vinegar or lemon juice to bind the pigment in the eggshell.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #274e13;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica;">Younger children will find this a very easy craft to make. The shape has big, bold lines with relatively few curves which should make it easier for preschoolers to cut out when they finished the shamrock.</span></span><br />
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<li><span style="color: #660000;">Q. What did the water say to the boat?</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #660000;">A. Nothing, it just waved.</span></li>
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<li><span style="color: #660000;">Q. Why did the man put his money in the freezer?</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #660000;">A. He wanted cold hard cash!</span></li>
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<li><span style="color: #660000;">Q. What did the porcupine say to the cactus?</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #660000;">A. "Is that you mommy?"</span></li>
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<li><span style="color: #660000;">Q. What do you get when you cross a snowman with a vampire?</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #660000;">A. Frostbite.</span></li>
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<li><span style="color: #660000;">Q. How do crazy people go through the forest?</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #660000;">A. They take the psycho path.</span></li>
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<li><span style="color: #660000;">Q. What do prisoners use to call each other?</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #660000;">A. Cell phones.</span></li>
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<li><span style="color: #660000;">Q. What do you get from a pampered cow?</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #660000;">A. Spoiled milk.</span></li>
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<li><span style="color: #660000;">Q. Where do polar bears vote?</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #660000;">A. The North Poll</span></li>
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<li><span style="color: #660000;">Q. What did Geronimo say when he jumped out of the airplane?</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #660000;">A. ME!!!</span></li>
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<li><span style="color: #660000;">Q. Where do snowmen keep their money?</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #660000;">A. In snow banks.</span></li>
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<li><span style="color: #660000;">Q. Why do sea-gulls fly over the sea?</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #660000;">A. Because if they flew over the bay they would be bagels!</span></li>
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<li><span style="color: #660000;">Q. What dog keeps the best time?</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #660000;">A. A watch dog.</span></li>
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<li><span style="color: #660000;">Q. Why did the tomato turn red?</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #660000;">A. It saw the salad dressing!</span></li>
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<li><span style="color: #660000;">Q. What did the grape do when it got stepped on?</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #660000;">A. It let out a little wine!</span></li>
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<li><span style="color: #660000;">Q. How do you make a tissue dance?</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #660000;">A. Put a little boogey in it!</span></li>
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<li><span style="color: #660000;">Q. Where do bees go to the bathroom?</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #660000;">A. At the BP station!</span></li>
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<li><span style="color: #660000;">Q. What did the judge say when the skunk walked in the court room?</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #660000;">A. Odor in the court.</span></li>
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<li><span style="color: #660000;">Q. What did the fish say when he swam into the wall?</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #660000;">A. Dam!</span></li>
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<li><span style="color: #660000;">Q. Why don't skeletons fight each other?</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #660000;">A. They don't have the guts.</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #660000;">After having a</span> <a href="http://e-childcare.blogspot.ie/2012/09/healthy-breakfast-tips.html" target="_blank">healthy breakfast</a> <span style="color: #660000;">kids spend their time at the creche or in the school. With all those
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Making healthy packed lunches can save you a significant amount of money. Creating a plan of action can save you a lot of time, as well. Buying in bulk and planning ahead are both to your advantage. Most ingredients can be stored long enough for you to create these masterful works of dietary delight over the weekend, freeing up what little time most families have available during the work week.</span><br />
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<li><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Chicken and Fruit Salad</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">A fresh pear</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">A muffin</span></li>
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<li><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Tortilla, filling: chicken, cheese, cucumber, mild salsa</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Peach</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Cheese, various shapes - cubes, triangles, sticks, etc</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Petit filou</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Milk/fruit juice</span></li>
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<li><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Baked Honey-Lime Drumsticks</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Small container of apple sauce</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Cream crackers with butter/cheese</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Dried apricots</span></li>
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<li><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Roll filled with
Tomato & Mozzarella cheese</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Small selection of
chopped fruit (kiwi, pear, grapes)</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Fruit Yogurt</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Pretzels</span></li>
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<li><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Slice of fruit brack</span></li>
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<li><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Tuna & sweetcorn roll</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Melon Cubes</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Assorted veggies eg celery or carrot sticks, red pepper strips, cucumber wheels, etc</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Cereal Bar</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Yogurt Drink</span></li>
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<li><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Pitta bread, filling:
tuna, cheese, salad & mayo</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Sticks of raw carrot</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Little box of raisins</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Drained pineapple
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<li><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Yogurt Drink</span></li>
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<li><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Ham & cheese
sandwich on wholemeal bread</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Fruit Yogurt</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Fresh strawberries</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Unsweetened fruit
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<li><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Flask of vegetable soup</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Cheese cubes & plain/wholemeal crackers</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Small bunch of seedless grapes</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Popcorn</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Milk/fruit juice</span></li>
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<li><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Bap filled with ham, lettuce & some mild mustard</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Half a dozen cherry tomatoes</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Satsuma</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Yogurt-covered raisins</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Milk/fruit juice</span></li>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Our children need to know that we love them and that they are precious to us. There are many ways you can use healthy packed lunches as a means to express that love and affection. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Try making their lunch colorful and interesting. Cut foods into different shapes and into small portions e.g. triangles of sandwiches, chunks of cheese, chopped mixed fruit.</span><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Try alternatives to bread and rolls with pittas or scones. Encourage your child to have wholemeal varieties.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Make sure the lunch you prepare is child friendly e.g.: peeled oranges, chopped meat, etc</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Vary the food from day to day, e.g. meat, fish cheese.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><br />Give something tasty like a favorite yogurt or a healthy fruit bar</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">A piece of fruit e.g.:banana or diced fruit is a quick snack for little break.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">A carton of unsweetened fruit juice or a flask of warm soup or hot chocolate are good for drink.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Use salads like lettuce, tomato, and cucumber also in sandwiches/rolls to brighten them up and to help ensure your child gets a good balance of nutrients.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Get your child involved in planning their own lunch as they are then much more likely to eat it.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Some schools have a ban on certain foods such as chewing gum or crisps. </span><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">Ensure that you haven't packed a forbidden food!</span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000;">Real book vs eReader.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000;">There are pros and cons for each, so better to think it over first.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000;">I will always prefer real books, of course. </span><br />
<span style="color: #660000;">Children can touch the texture and feel of tuning pages, and the smell of a new book, or the smell of an ancient one. Displaying them on your shelf can encourage children to take them for reading. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000;">The colors of the books, the graphic is just amazing. Children's books are brilliantly designed, some are quite colorful, others are cute, a few are elegant, but all are awesome regardless of the style.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000;">There is a wide range of books available from very early age and these books have attractive illustrations, which give a visual delight and some books also can help with sensorial learning, like having different materials, buttons to press or some books even can release a smell.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000;">But I've found when kids read on Kindle they are a little faster.<a href="http://e-childcare.blogspot.ie/2012/11/kids-interest-in-reading-on-kindle.html" target="_blank"> A case study at Curtis Fundamental Elementary in Florida proved that "With Kindle, students are highly engaged and willing to read</a> for longer periods of time," reports reading tutor, Debbie McCarthy.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000;">The Kindle is so handy. When you finish a book you can transfer the file to some other storage like a CD or USB drive to free up storage on the Kindle for more books. You can store a whole passle o' books on it. It fits inside a tiny purse, for one, so you can take it anywhere. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000;">vTech V.Reader is the Kindle kiddie version. With excellent touch-screen interactivity, nicely animated stories, and different narrators and voices, this awesome eReader will get your little one reading very competently. Contents are downloadable too, so it's a real best buy.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000;">Whatever you prefer, remember:</span><br />
<span style="color: #660000;">Books -either real books or eBooks-, should be carefully chosen and it is very important to find an age appropriate books for children. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000;"><b>When to start potty training?</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000;">There has been a recent rise in the people doing "young" or "infant" training beginning around 4-6 months and in some cases earlier and I think there are some benefits to training infants and toddlers.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000;">How do I know if my child ready to be potty trained?</span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000;">There is no "right" age to potty training a child, but there are things to look for when you want to see if your child is ready. Check to see if he/she shows the signs of readiness.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000;">Signs of Readiness below:</span><br />
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<b><span style="color: #660000;">Physical Readiness</span></b><br />
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<li><span style="color: #660000;">Able to sit, stand, and walk with ease</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #660000;">Bowel movements are regular</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #660000;">Stays dry during naps and night-time</span></li>
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<li><span style="color: #660000;">Pull pants up and down with ease</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #660000;">Can undress themselves</span></li>
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<li><span style="color: #660000;">Able to say common potty words</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #660000;">Stops what they are doing to poop in diaper</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #660000;">They understand simple instructions</span></li>
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<b><span style="color: #660000;">Emotional & Social Awareness</span></b><br />
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<li><span style="color: #660000;">Shows interest in other people going potty</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #660000;">They imitate behavior</span></li>
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<li><span style="color: #660000;">No age is exact for toilet training.</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #660000;">Watch for me to grimace at dirty diapers, show you my wet</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #660000;">pants and stay dry for up to 2 hours.</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #660000;">I need to be verbal enough to understand toilet training.</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #660000;">Change me as soon as possible; tell me it’s nice to be clean</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #660000;">Let me have a toy to keep me happy and busy on the pottychair.</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #660000;">Put me on the potty briefly at first (up to 5 minutes).</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #660000;">Teach me the family words for toilet training.</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #660000;">Dress me in easy to remove clothing.</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #660000;">Be patient and never scold me.</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #660000;">Visit the potty before going somewhere.</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #660000;">Help me wipe and teach me to wash my hands.</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #660000;">Please how me how to flush.</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #660000;">Praise any efforts and encourage your child to let you know when he/she need to go potty. Scolding doesn't work, positive reinforcement DOES!</span></li>
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<span style="color: #660000;"><br /></span><b><span style="color: #660000;">You can reward you child for desired potty behaviors such as:</span></b><br />
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<li><span style="color: #660000;">taking his pants down by himself</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #660000;">sitting on the potty</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #660000;">going in the potty</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #660000;">flushing when done</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #660000;">washing their hands when done</span></li>
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<span lang="EN-IE" style="color: #660000; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Download and print this free printable potty chart (in his and
hers versions) to get little ones excited about the potty. Secure a set of
pages together (instructions included) to create a tear-away notepad for easy
charting. Your child will love to get a reward every time he completes a chart.</span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IE" style="color: #660000; font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: small; line-height: normal;">Post a potty training chart near the potty for easy reference.</span></span><span style="color: #660000;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000;">You can create your own potty
training chart that reflects your specific goals and methods for potty
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Elementary in Florida prooved that "With Kindle, students are highly
engaged and willing to read for longer periods of time," reports reading
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<span lang="EN-IE"><span style="color: #073763;">Jan Hager began by purchasing 73 Kindle
e-readers for the 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade classes. With Kindle children read
more and longer. After the big success Parent Teacher Association (PTA) funded a
second set of Kindle e-readers for the school. </span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-IE"><span style="color: #073763;"><b>The new Kindle</b> has the Kindle FreeTime service. With this service parents and teachers can
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and videos they want to give their kids access to. Kindle FreeTime is free on
every Kindle Fire HD. </span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-IE"><span style="color: #073763;">When kids use Kindle FreeTime, it's like
they have their very own, personalized tablet. The background color and fonts
change to a kid-friendly design. They only see the titles that they have access
to see. The home screen carousel shows their recently viewed titles. And, they
can even navigate visually to content based on characters or topics - for
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<span lang="EN-IE"><span style="color: #073763;">The new Kindle Fire HD is designed to stand up to
accidental bumps and scrapes. Our state-of-the art display is 20 times stiffer
and 30 times harder than plastic, so you can let your child play, without
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<span style="color: #660000; font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span><span style="color: #660000; font-size: 18px;">Learning toys, c</span><span style="color: #660000; font-size: 13.5pt;">hild education games and activities help your children in spelling, reading comprehension and more. </span><span style="color: #660000; font-size: 13.5pt;">Child education is supplemented by reading comprehension, spelling games and other elementary learning activities, so your child learns faster and retains his/her education through an increased attention span. Learning toys keep your child entertained for hours at a time. They’re a bit different from normal toys. Each toy has an objective and your child can play with them until they can finish it! They provide a learning experience that is challenging.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000; font-size: 13.5pt;">Learning toys are created by experienced educational professionals. The learning experience will be challenging but extremely fun for your child. They have an opportunity to learn:</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #660000; font-size: 13.5pt;">Learning toys develops their mental and physical skills. </span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #660000; font-size: 13.5pt;">Learning toys helps engage your child’s senses, as a lot of learning toys discuss touch, smell and hearing.</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #660000; font-size: 13.5pt;">Learning toys help teach your children about the importance of interacting with others.</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #660000; font-size: 13.5pt;">Learning toys help develop your child’s creative skills and even their imagination.</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #660000; font-size: 13.5pt;">Learning toys helps improve and foster their problem solving skills, which needs to be taught from a young age!</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #660000; font-size: 13.5pt;">Learning toys helps develop your child’s cognitive skills. </span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #660000; font-size: 13.5pt;">Learning toys develop and encourage good social skills.Learning toys focus on having fun and enjoying yourself. You will notice that most all learning toys encourage social skills with smaller children.</span><span style="background-color: white; font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span></li>
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<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #660000; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: HU;">Painted toys should be covered with
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<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #660000; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: HU;">Art materials should say nontoxic.</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: HU;"><o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #660000; font-size: 13.5pt;">Avoid marbles, coins, balls, and
games with balls that are 1.75 inches in diameter or less because they can
become lodged in the throat above the windpipe and restrict breathing.</span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #660000; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: HU;">Battery-operated toys should have
battery cases that secure with screws so that kids cannot pry them open.
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internal bleeding, and chemical burns.</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: HU;"><o:p></o:p></span></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #660000; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: HU;">Make sure a toy isn't too loud for
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<span style="color: #660000; font-size: 13.5pt;">While all new products should meet minimum safety standards, second hand goods may have been built to an old standard, or there may not have been a standard at all when they were made. In addition, wear and tear may have made them unsafe so you need to check them carefully before buying second hand equipment. If in any doubt about the safety of items designed for young children, especially second hand ones don’t use them. </span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #660000; font-size: 13.5pt;">There are general guidelines to keep in mind when toy-shopping, but in order to promote your kid's skills you need to asses the toys, and only buy those which not only entertains them but helps them to develop.</span><br />
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<span lang="EN-IE" style="color: #660000;"> Breakfast is really be the most important meal of the day. This is especially true for your child. Never skip breakfast! Eating breakfast is the secret to staying healthy. Studies show that
kids who eat breakfast have better attention and focus in the morning. Other
research shows breakfast eaters to have lower BMIs (Body Mass Index) than
non-breakfast eaters. Kids who eat healthy breakfast tend to eat healthier overall and are more likely to participate in physical activities — two great ways to help maintain a healthy weight.</span><br />
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<span lang="EN-IE" style="color: #660000;">So, what is a good breakfast for your kid? Here are some healthy breakfast tips: </span><br />
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<span lang="EN-IE" style="color: #660000;">1 cup whole grain dry cereal with skim milk
or 1% low-fat milk — and any type of fruit (strawberries, banana, sliced
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<span lang="EN-IE" style="color: #660000;"> Select a variety that has at least 3 grams of
fiber and 6 grams or less of sugar per serving: Try, Barbara's Puffins
(cinnamon or the Lightly sweetened), Multi-Grain or Plain Cheerios, Complete
Bran Flakes, Kashi Heart to Heart or Mighty Bites. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IE" style="color: #660000;">Toasted English Muffin (whole wheat, or oat
bran); with tomato slices and 2 slices of melted low-fat cheese -- plus
optional fruit.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IE" style="color: #660000;">1-2 slices whole wheat bread, toasted with
2 teaspoons of peanut butter and a glass of skim milk. Also, the option for one
piece of fruit.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IE" style="color: #660000;"> Frozen waffles, toasted (*look for
calcium-fortified – whole grain) with a container of non-fat, flavored yogurt
topped with berries. Or, for the protein portion of this meal, ….you may want
to skip the yogurt and instead spread peanut butter on your waffles – add a
glass of skim milk.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IE" style="color: #660000;"> 1/3
cup low-fat granola cereal mixed into a container of non-fat, flavored yogurt–
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<span lang="EN-IE" style="color: #660000;">Egg white omelet made from 1 whole egg plus
2-3 egg whites – with 1 slice of low-fat cheese – any veggies – with 1-2 slices
of whole wheat toast. Optional fruit.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IE" style="color: #660000;">1 packet of the plain or apples/cinnamon
oatmeal (or ½ cup dry, plain oats) – made with water and some low-fat milk –
plus fresh fruit and a glass of milk.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-IE" style="color: #660000;">Apple slices with peanut butter. Cut one
apple into thin slices and top with 1-2 tablespoons of peanut butter. Include a
glass of milk, string cheese, or small container non-fat flavored yogurt. </span><br />
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<a href="http://e-childcare.blogspot.ie/2012/05/how-many-calories-needed-for-balanced.html" target="_blank"><span style="color: #073763;">How many calories do children need?</span></a><br />
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<span style="color: #660000;">October is knocking at the door and it’s a good time to check out resources for kids struggling with dyslexia. October is Dyslexia Awareness Month.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000;"><b>What is Dyslexia?</b></span><br />
<span style="color: #660000;"> Definition of dyslexia says, Dyslexia is a language-based learning disability, and contrary to some beliefs, it is not due to either lack of intelligence or a desire to learn. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000;">Estimates by the National Institute of Child Health and Development suggest as many as 20 percent of all students may have some degree of dyslexia. So did my son. We struggled years and years to try to find out a solution for him and make life easier. We went from therapist to therapist got new books, advice, and teaching method. When he was 8 years old a psychologist suggested me to go and repeat the school year, as he was not able to read the exercises, or any written task from any subject. <b>She even told me, that my son will not be able to learn any foreign languages!</b> </span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000;">This was when I told them "NO!", I will not except this and I will fight against Dyslexia and I will teach my son to read!</span><br />
<span style="color: #660000;">We got a special book to practice, and in our daily routine we practiced at least 1-2 hours. It was hard for both of us, but he could continue his school studying next year. I signed the form the he won't be marked for his grammar, and I must admit that this was a kind of help. But I never told him, that he is not supposed to learn foreign languages. He attended all of the language classes, and of course I help him to keep up. </span><br />
<span style="color: #660000;">He had no mood to read any book till he was 15, when he got his first Darren Shan book. This time really the most biggest success was that he started to read alone.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000;">Today my son writes scientific articles in foreign language. He will finish his BSC next year.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000;">Many people believe the word “dyslexia” is used to describe a reading problem in which people see words spelled backward. Research has shown, however, that this description is not accurate in describing the complex concept of dyslexia.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000;">Literally, dyslexia means “difficulty with words”. This difficulty with words can impact speaking, reading, and/or spelling and varies a great deal from person to person. According to the National Institutes of Health, only 5 of 100 children with dyslexia are appropriately diagnosed and receiving treatment.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000;">Electronic devices like Kindle may help children to read. </span><br />
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<a href="http://e-childcare.blogspot.ie/2012/11/kids-interest-in-reading-on-kindle.html#more" target="_blank"><span style="color: #073763;">A case study at Curtis Fundamental Elementary in Florida proved that "With Kindle, students are highly engaged and willing to read for longer periods of time," reports reading tutor, Debbie McCarthy.</span></a><br />
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