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KidsFunPlaza distribution at NENY Price Choppers

Posted on November 15, 2010 5:41 pm by TheAngelForever

I am so excited to finally able to make an announcement about distribution of the KidsFunPlaza NENY magazine. Starting this week, KidsFunPlaza will be distributed at Price Chopper stores near you. Price Chopper has provided me with a list of the Northeastern New York stores that will be carring them next to their iCoupon machines. To make it easier, I have arranged the list by counties. Here it is:

21	Watervliet	Albany
23	Madison Ave	Albany
28	Twenty Mall	Albany
36	Cohoes	Albany
45	Delaware Ave	Albany
60	Menands	Albany
133	Westgate	Albany
138	Loudon	Albany
159	Bethlehem	Albany
183	Guilderland	Albany
188	Shaker Road	Albany
196	Glenmont	Albany
224	New Colonie	Albany
3	Brunswick	Rensselaer
10	North Troy	Rensselaer
111	East Greenbush	Rensselaer
181	HVP	Rensselaer
20	Clifton Park	Saratoga
35	Saratoga	Saratoga
39	Wilton	Saratoga
94	Mechanicville	Saratoga
112	CSW	Saratoga
158	Route 50	Saratoga
184	Malta	Saratoga
1	Eastern Parkway	Schenectady
38	Glenville	Schenectady
175	Altamont Ave	Schenectady
191	Niskayuna	Schenectady
6	Cooper St.	Warren
40	Glen St	Warren
170	Lake George	Warren
157	Granville	Washington

In addition to this, Ana has posted the new Monday at the Plaza with another contest opportunity. Please stop by and link up to enter with the Mommy and Me Moment.

For those of you that are not local, I hope to be able to share the new issue with you in digital form soon. As soon as I have a link, I will update you.

See you tomorrow for a new Tuesday Tales!

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KidsFunPlaza round up for Nov. 14

Posted on November 14, 2010 5:17 pm by TheAngelForever

As I have mentioned before, I write for a local magazine called KidsFunPlaza NENY. It is going to be a busy week ahead for me with the writing deadline for the December edition in just a few days.

This past week I had two posts that are on the KidsFunPlaza blog:

Other posts from my talented colleagues this week are:

So please take a moment and stop by KidsFunPlaza to weigh in on some of the topics that we have been writing about. This week, there will be posts coming in the Family/Winner, The Plaza, Pre-Teen, Teen, Grandma’s Wisdom, Community, and Buy Local sections. Exciting times, so do not miss a minute of the fun.

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Project pride

Posted on November 13, 2010 5:44 pm by TheAngelForever

Dear JSL,

This week you had your first ever project for school. At three years old, you were so excited to do homework like your big brother. Your nursery school teachers asked us to make a poster that showed things that we like to do as a family. Completing this together, with help from NHL was a lot of fun. You helped me to pick out photos, then we went to get them printed off at CVS. Once we got home we plunked down on the floor with the paper, photos, photo glue, and my monster sticker box. You helped me to put the pictures in just the right spots. After I glued them down, you were able to go into my sticker box. This was the first time you had ever seen it. You were mesmerized with the different Winnie the Pooh, Mickey Mouse, Monsters Inc, Blues Clues, and countless other options inside.

You wanted to hold onto your project to show Daddy when he got home from work. Luckily I was able to get you to put it down to dry. On Friday, when we took it into school, you insisted on holding onto it as we left the house. Then when we got to school you clutched it tight and paraded into school showing everyone along the way.

It was so much fun watching how proud you were of the photos, stickers, and project as a whole. Now I hope we can keep this excitement for homework alive for years to come.

Love,

Mommy

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School projects

Posted on November 12, 2010 12:00 am by TheAngelForever

When I was teaching, I was a pro at assigning projects to my students. I had a lot of fun coming up with new and creative ways for my kids to do things like book reports and science projects. Of course, the flip side of these items was correcting them. I spent countless hours creating rubrics with my grading policies, expectations for each section, and more. Once the items came in, as exciting as it was to see the creativity of my students, it also meant a lot of work correcting/grading them. Not simply slapping a grade on them, but writing comments as to why points were deducted per the rubric and beyond. In the end, it was well worth it. Of course, I did have complaints about some of my projects. The calls, e-mails, and personal visits happened many times. Most of the time, things ended well and everyone was happy.

Now I am getting a taste of life as a parent helping with projects for my own boys. NHL has had a few of them here and there, he is a second grader after all. On Tuesday, JSL (3) came home with his first ever school assignment from nursery school. I smiled as I watched the little guy get so excited that he had homework. I read the note that was on a large sheet of construction paper:

Dear Parents,

In conjunction with the upcoming holiday of Thanksgiving, we will be focusing on our families.

Your homework is to depict what your family enjoys doing together. Use pictures, stickers, etc.

Homework is due Friday, Nov. 12th.

Have fun,

JSL’s Teachers

So, JSL has been talking non-stop about doing his homework (I need to record this excitement to use for when he gets older). Thursday, he helped me to pick out some photos. We went to CVS and had them printed out. Then we sat down on the floor to arrange them on the paper. He helped me to glue them on (had special photo glue I was testing), and then added fun stickers of his choice from my collection. Here is the final result:

So my question for you this week:

If you have children, what has your favorite project been that they have brought home? If you do not have kids, or they are too little, what was your favorite as a child?

P.S. Be sure to stop by and enter my Mastermind Game giveaway and TechyDad’s Mastermind Animal Tower giveaway.

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Thanks to Kailani at An Island Life for starting this fun for Friday. Please be sure to head over to her blog to say hello and sign the linky there if you are participating.

Aloha #125

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Thank you to our Veterans

Posted on November 11, 2010 1:31 pm by TheAngelForever

A big thank you to all of the Veterans past, present, and future. Your dedication to protecting our country is recognized not only today, but each day with the many freedoms that we enjoy.

This gorgeous photo of your flag was taken by Jonathon Colman and can be found on his Flickr account. I felt his photo captured the essence of this day.

Please take a moment to thank any veterans that you know. If you would like to honor them here, the comment section would be a great place to share a little something about what they have done for you and our country.