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Mother Daughter Book Reviews is pleased to be coordinating a Blog Tour for the new titles recently released by Lonely Planet Kids (an imprint from Lonely Planet, the world’s leading travel publisher), from October 15 to 31, 2015. Lonely Planet Kids aims to enhance learning, interaction and appreciation for the … Continue reading
Expanding Imaginations with Made-up Words This marks the last class for the summer for our Writing group. We will continue meeting and writing, but I’m not sure yet which direction the workshops are going to go. To say bye to our vacation, we dove into writings by wonderful authors who … Continue reading
This week, in our Writing Workshop, I had both kids and adults talk about their perfect vacation. As we are about to end the summer, it is something that has been in all our minds… so I wanted to see the differences between what both camps considered the most awesome … Continue reading
This week, our workshop had an easy theme to write about… a sort of Dr. Seuss wacky day, in which we all woke up and things were not quite right. I decided to give the kids the beginning of a story for them to carry on and finish it. For … Continue reading
Celebrating Freedom After the class had a break because of July 4th, we came back with lots of stories to tell. I asked everyone what they had done for Independence day, and all the kids were fighting each other to get a word in. I heard them all – briefly … Continue reading
The Class’ Task After our last class where we all wrote about ourselves, this time we brought out the Rory’s Story Cubes and I divided them among the kids. The task for the day was to write the adventures of Olexi from Another Galaxy, an alien kid who is coming … Continue reading
Summer Writing Workshop As school came to an end, I noticed many mothers and teachers were concerned on how to get the kids practicing their handwriting, as well as newly acquired grammar and spelling skills. I was also concerned with not losing touch with my daughter’s newly found friends, as … Continue reading
The Last Review As the school year comes to a close, we’re finally preparing in Movie Class to shoot the Kids’ movies! This class we reviewed their rewritten scripts, made a few changes in dialogue and action, getting things ready to move forward with the actual production of their work. … Continue reading
What is Scratch? Scratch is an online programming language and online community for kids developed by MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). It started at the Longlife Kindergarten media lab at MIT, a group whose goal is sowing the seeds for a more creative society. With Scratch, Kids can create their … Continue reading
The Leica Reel This week we recorded the voices of the kids doing table readings of their scripts. We then proceeded to combine their photo stories with voices, so they could make a sort of Leica Reel, which is being able to see the pictures while hearing the voices. After … Continue reading