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    2025 Blogging A to Z Challenge: Sports

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    It’s time to get a move on, so let’s talk sports! Today’s 2025 Blogging A to Z Challenge post is all about sports, and not just your typical baseball, basketball, and soccer, but dance, yoga, and rowing. Plus, more fun statistics and facts that you’ll ever know what to do…

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    2025 Blogging A to Z Challenge: Religion

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    While people may choose to worship in many different ways with many different types of holidays, festivals, and celebrations, the more I learn about the major holidays of the world, the more I’m reminded that we are more similar than we are different. And I think kids can benefit from…

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    2025 Blogging A to Z Challenge: Quotations

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    The Letter Q is not an easy letter in the challenge and I definitely struggle every year to come up with a theme for the Letter Q. So, for today’s challenge post, I’m sharing books full of quotations (and some with affirmations as well!) I love the idea of creating…

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    2025 Blogging A to Z Challenge: Plants

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    There are some absolutely beautiful nonfiction books about plants, flowers, and trees. I know it’s not hard to create beautiful books about nature, but these will encourage kids to take their time pouring over the details of the illustrations. Whether your kids love getting dirty in the yard or prefer…

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    2025 Blogging A to Z Challenge: Outer Space

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    We’re heading a little further away with this book list – among the stars! While I’ve never been interested in the technology side of outer space – rockets, satellites, astronauts, I do love looking at the stars. Where I live now has entirely too much light pollution to see anything…

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    2025 Blogging A to Z Challenge: Narrative Nonfiction

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    Can you believe we’ve tipped into the second half of the alphabet already? It’s been a whirlwind of blogging over the past few weeks and I feel like after ten years of this challenge, I’ve figured out a lot of the logistics, I just need to find more time in…

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    2025 Blogging A to Z Challenge: Maps

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    In a world that travels by Apples Maps, Google Maps, and Waze, I miss the good old days of opening up the road atlas and tracing the route from point a to point b. I grew up in a time where AAA TripTiks were printed and you spent the trip…

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    Storytime Theme: Rainbow

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    Well, it’s the final color-themed storytime for a while – I couldn’t ignore the rainbow! The series just didn’t seem complete without an all-encompassing rainbow themed storytime lesson plan. This could be a great introduction to the series or an ending, but between this lesson plan and the ones listed…

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    2025 Blogging A to Z Challenge: Language Learning

    2025 Blogging A to Z Challenge: Language Learning

    As we continue to travel through the alphabet, we taking the chance to travel around the world as well with an introduction to language learning in a variety of languages, plus being able to better understand the importance of language both verbal and nonverbal as well! Studies show that kids…

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    2025 Blogging A to Z Challenge: Know It All

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    Some letters of this challenge are easier than others and I have learned over the past ten years to provide myself with a few spaces where I can kind of create a catch-all location for additional titles that I want to share that may not fit in a different letter’s…