Sentences with phrase «read children books»

I was excited to get a color screen to read children books to my 4 year old son on it.

We have read your books and I have read your children books to my boys... We were on Spring break and we make sandwiches instead of going out to eat and we ran out of our wheat bread.

Read children books or create other activities about fire safety or, for the youngest kids, about fire trucks and their purpose, and fire stations.

Have u read the childrens book, «my mother is weird» by rachna gilmore?

You can read your child books about children who have learned to sleep on their own or let them watch TV shows and specials on the same topic.

Whether it be reading our child a book instead of sitting them in front of the TV or whatever it might be.

Continue to read your child books with predictable texts and familiar words, but also include those with a richer vocabulary and more complicated plots.

Not exact matches

[With it,] she went from a child who couldn't hold a single letter in her head to someone who was able to read words and sentences and chapter books and able to effectively communicate with people around her.

In January 2008, two and a half years after founding Etsy, Kalin posted a video on the company's blog of himself reading a children's book.

She enjoys reading business books, playing the violin and trying new restaurants with her husband and five children.

She plans to run her business from home and personally market her books in hospitals, day - care centers, schools, libraries and bookstores, where she will read her stories to children and sell the books to parents.

Keeping their volunteers motivated means letting them see the results of their efforts, whether it's the smile on a hungry child's face when they receive the food package a volunteer packed, or the first book a learning disabled child reads after months of tutoring.

For instance, if you're running a Facebook page that features children's books and you run across a great list of 100 books every child should read, you may be tempted to just post a link to that list as a status update.

«Though made for children, this book has served me as a metaphor for business since I read it to my son 25 years ago.

Bennett says he reads even more children's books («at least two a day») with his daughter, who serves as the basis for his own books» main character.

So they pulled out all the stops by experimenting with an in - store cafe, free Wi - Fi, monthly book swaps, a children's play area, entertainment, more than 200 in - store author readings a year and community forums on topics of interest to customers.

We compared children from the same social backgrounds who achieved similar tested abilities at ages five and 10, and discovered that those who frequently read books at age 10 and more than once a week when they were 16 had higher test results than those who read less.

I learnt this eventually, in the course of general reading, from a book, «Influence», aimed at a popular audience, by a distinguished psychology professor, Robert Cialdini... I immediately sent copies of Cialdini's book to all my children.

You've read enough children's books to last you a lifetime, but have you given any thought to writing one?

You need to read a book, even a childrens book if thats your intelligence level so you can expand your mind b / c you have the mind of a nomad.

Instead, Prof. Ashford reads from a children's book about a runaway bunny whose mother promises to find him wherever he goes, and manages to elicit from it the comforting message that God will seek out the soul no matter where it hides.

I laid with him in his hospital bed when he was still conscious and began reading scripture to him from a little book he had received 80 years earlier as a child in England.

The fact that you are uneducated is not the issue of those of us who are... read a science book for a change and get your head out of that 2000 year old book... only children and schizophrenics have imaginary friends..

Read your book of fables (aka bible)... don't dismiss the parts condoning rape; slavery; child abuse; oppression of women and LGBT; murder.

I would like to see some real loving father get away with just leaving a book for his «children» to read and then never be heard from again.

I fear for all my fellowman, including some of my children and siblings and wish they would just do the simple thing — read the Book of Mormon with real intent, wanting to know if it is true or not.

He was arrested in 2009 after he lodged a protest with local education officials after learning his child was being forced to read from the Quran, the Muslim holy book, in school.

I can't wait to see the new text books that children ages 5 an up must now read which glorify the achievements of gay.

In such a silence, if you have turned off the television and tempted your child away from his games with a good book, you can hear other things: the chatter and call of cardinals who have found the birdseed; the crack of a log in the fire; hot coffee being poured into a cup; the ticking of your last non-digital clock; the rhythmic breathing of tired child (or parent) who has dozed while reading; the soft thud of a book sliding to the floor.

In her latest book, The Death and Life of the Great American School System, she charges that the state reading and math tests mandated by the No Child Left Behind Act lower the bar, produce inconsistent results, lack content, promote cheating, and encourage teachers to waste time on test - taking strategies.

I have sat in the shade leaning against its rough, ridged bark, noticing how its roots distend and break through the surface of the soil, as I read a book or watch my children ride their bikes.

She's been reading aloud to her six kids (preschool to high school) ever since, and has spent the last few years chatting with experts, authors, parents, and leaders, discovering how a simple choice to pull a book off a shelf and share it with a child is one of the very best decisions a parent can make.

Reading aloud to the children has been like gathering kindling daily — lighting children to read books on their own, flaming their interest in books they might have otherwise passed over.

Once I read a book about a child who was kidnapped (I can't read those kinds of books anymore, so this must have been many years ago).

There are so many different people and age groups who read that book but I hear from you all most: the late - teens and twenty - something women, the ones in high school, university or college, sometimes you're newly married, rarely do you have children yet.

When many of us read the Anne books, we were children.

I have always read for oxygen, my only punishment as a child was to have my books taken away from me.

When I was a child,» Marilynne Robinson began an early essay, «I read books.»

I took the book to my boss and told him that I was NOT going to read that to five and six year old children.

It was an RCC sanctioned book, complete with imprimatur, that had been placed in my classroom by the curriculum development experts in the diocese with the expectation that I would read it to the children.

I've been to church a handful or so of times, and I've read children's books about Christ, growing up.

As a Prime member, you can now read as much as you like from over a thousand top Kindle books, magazines, short works, books with Audible narration, comics, children's books and more — all at no additional cost.

All those hours spent reading by dim firelight the same book over and over (the way little children still like to be read to) were to contribute to Lincoln's being the foremost master of prose among our Presidents.

Andrea Yates, the Texas mom who drowned her five children in a bathtub in 2001, believed they «were «stumbling» into the throes of the devil and were going to burn in the fires of eternity,» said Richard Bonnie, a University of Virginia law professor, reading from his criminal law teaching book.

70 years ago I could have shown you scores of children in HItler's youth leagues who could read Mein Kampf without looking at the book.

John Delaney, editor of Catholic books for Doubleday, has figured out that so many Americans have bought Bibles during the past ten years that one out of every three of them (excluding children who can't read) should he able to quote chapter and verse in unison.

A child delights in seeing animals, meeting new people, reading familiar books over and over, and a million other little pleasures that we adults take for granted.

Reading all the books about 2012, and listening to all the doom and gloom sermons, attending all the prayer meetings about the end of the world, and watching the Discovery channel special about Mayan calendars and aliens from space and Egyptian pyramid tunnels, OR loving our neighbors, serving our spouses, teaching our children, working hard at our jobs, and helping where people are hurting?

There are, however, other ways to face death, and Charlotte's Web is not the only child's book that will bear many readings.

Oh ya because most of the book contains sick things that if it was any other book you wouldn't allow your children to read.