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Spring is an expansive time; a time when children have more energy and are needing room outside to move after the inside time spent during winter. Celebrate spring with the planting of seeds and other garden activities. Involve the children in the real work of the garden, giving them tools and jobs to do. Perhaps even make with them their own garden beds where they can tend to their plants, water them and watch them grow. Imagine their delight in sharing with the family a tomato or pea that they have grown in their very own garden! With the outdoors...

Once upon a time, there lived an old mother goat, who had seven kids in a small house. She loved her children very much and had to protect them all the time from the wicked wolf. The wolf was always waiting for a chance to eat the seven baby goats. One day, when the mother goat had to go to the market, she said to them: "Dear children, I am going to the market. Till I return, don't allow anybody to come into the house. Don't open the door till I come. Be careful about the wolf. He will try...

Continuing on with our Russian Fairy Tales that Correspond with our beautiful Acorn puzzles is the popular fable The Fox and The Crow. A Fox once saw a Crow fly off with a piece of cheese in its beak and settle on a branch of a tree."That's for me, as I am a Fox," said Master Reynard, and he walked up to the foot of the tree. "Good day, Mistress Crow," he cried. "How well you are looking today: how glossy your feathers; how bright your eye. I feel sure your voice must surpass that of other birds, just as...

An old man planted a turnip. The turnip grew to be enormous. The old man started to pull the turnip out of the ground. He pulled and pulled, but couldn't pull it out. So he called the old woman over. The old woman took hold of the old man, the old man took hold of the turnip, they pulled and pulled, but couldn't pull it out. So the old woman called the granddaughter over. The granddaughter took hold of the old woman, the old woman took hold of the old man, the old man took hold of the turnip, they...