October 22nd, 2008

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Little Red Lighthouse and the Great Gray Bridge Go-Alongs

Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008

This post will list go-alongs that we have found to be helpful when studying The Little Red Lighthouse and the Great Gray Bridge with Five In A Row.

Go-Along Books:

Tar Beach
Keep the Lights Burning, Abbie (1st Avenue)

Go-Along DVDs and VHS:

Keep the Lights Burning Abbie – Reading Rainbow Episode on DVD (may be out of print/may find used)
Reading Rainbow Tar Beachexcellent episode including info about the building of The George Washington Bridge

 Other Resources:

Reading Rainbow Episode Tar Beach details
Reading Rainbow Episode Keep The Lights Burning Abbie details

I will keep adding to this as we find things and use them personally.

Lynn

Simple Pasta Salad

Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008

I love easy side dishes.  Especially things that are pretty in addition to being delicious.  Like this pasta dish.

You can brighten it up even more with canned tomatoes, but some of my children don’t like tomatoes very much, and I think this dish is actually better without the tomatoes.

Cook up some multicolored spiral pasta, drain and rinse with cold water.  Add in one can of corn, drained, and one can of garbanzo beans, drained.  Then, my favorite part.  You can use Italian dressing, but this, in my humble opinion, is much, much better. 

Bragg’s All Natural Ginger & Sesame Salad Dressing.  Pour this on to coat pasta to your liking and stir.  Season with sea salt to your liking.  And eat.   All of my boys, even my I-don’t-like-vegetables boy, love this dressing.  Bragg’s All Natural Ginger & Sesame Salad Dressing has extra virgin olive oil, fresh ginger, raw honey, fresh garlic, , liquid aminos, sesame seeds, and more.

You can find Bragg’s at many all-natural grocery stores. 

Yum.

Lynn