Have you heard? American Girl has added a new girl to the Be Forever line! Her name is Melody. Based in 1963, Melody is a 10-year-old girl living in Detriot and learning about the racial inequality around her. Melody is currently available at the American Girl store but today, Amazon Video is releasing “An American Girl Story – Melody 1963: Love Has To Win". I was fortunate enough to see a prescreening last night of “An American Girl Story – Melody 1963: Love Has To Win". I instantly fell in ...
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WordWorld: It’s Time For School
I'm a huge fan of Word World and so is Peyton. Last spring I received a disturbing letter from Peyton's kindergarten teacher informing me of Peyton's reading difficulties. I started looking for ways I could help Peyton learn to read while making it fun. One of the ways I accomplished this was with Word World videos. Kids are learning how to recognize letters, sound and make words all while having a good time watching television. They are learning but it doesn't feel like work. I did work with ...
Caillou Goes for the Gold
Peyton was just fascinated with the Olympics this summer. She could not get enough of watching the women's gymnastic meets. We are also big soccer fans in our home so we caught most of the soccer matches too! In Caillou Goes for the Gold, we get to see Caillou learn some new sports. Caillou learns about soccer, basketball, karate, running and more. He learns that nothing is as easy as it looks. There are 11 episodes! That's about 60 minutes of Caillou having fun while learning new ...
Wild Kratts: Wild Reptiles
Have you ever watched Wild Kratts on PBS Kids? I stumbled upon it one day when I was home with Peyton when she was little. We were both drawn in. I liked how the two main characters in the cartoon are also in the episodes as regular people. Plus there's a lot of educational information in each episode. Children are learning a ton about animals, their behaviors, habitats and environments. Peyton loves it because she loves animals, learning about new animals and seeing the Wild Kratts suits turn ...
Storks
Have you seen Storks? It opened this weekend at theaters nationwide. If you are looking for a family friendly movie that you can take you 3 year old, 9 year old and teenager too, that they will all enjoy, keep reading. Warner Brothers has taken a classic tale and turned it into a story for the big screen. Remember growing up and hearing babies where delivered by Storks? And thinking that's where babies came from? Storks takes the baby delivering concept and gives it merit. See, back in the ...
Under the Volcano
One of the first television series Peyton started watching when she was little was Dinosaur Train. Instantly, she fell in love with all the dinosaurs. Recently, Under the Volcano was released. With 120 minutes of Dinosaur Train fun, your little one is sure to be pleased. I love saving videos like these for rainy days or days I need to get a lot of housework done. Just pop it in the DVD player and your kid doesn't even mind you are running around the house cleaning. And I like how when Peyton is ...