Madison and I have been reading both the Let’s Get Ready For Kindergarten and Let’s Get Ready For First Grade.  These books are great.  Even with Madison only being four, we are able to do activities out of both of these books.  The first thing I love is that we can write with our felt tip pens on these books and then erase when we are done with the activities.  The activities are also very age appropriate.  We are able to do some of the activities, because they worked on them in preschool.  However, there are a lot of things we will be working towards.  In the kindergaren book, there is a list of skills that we should be working on with Madison like knowing our address and phone number, taking turns, and recognizing your left and right.  Now, Madison knows a bunch of things on that list.  However, there is a good chunk of things she doesn’t (like knowing her left and right).  There are a lot of skills in these books that we will be working on all summer, so she’s set for preschool again in the fall.  I’m glad we have a fun way to work on them.

I just got a box of these Town House Flipsides to try tonight, and I have to admit that I really like them. I was really interested in figuring out how a cracker pretzel was going to taste. Surprisingly, these Town House Flipsides are really good! I tried the cheddar thinking I wasn’t going to like it. Usually, cheddar flavored things knock you over, because they are so cheesy. These had the perfect amount of cheese flavoring. As far as taste goes, they taste like a cracker and a pretzel (I know, you probably could have figured that out!). It is actually a really good combination. I can see us eating this plain and eating this with dip. This is also a great treat to bring to my daughters preschool. The kids really don’t sugar for their snack time. Also, one of the girls in her glass is allergic to peanuts. This makes it extremely difficult to find something to bring for a snack (I swear almost almost everything has peanuts in it or was made on something that came into contact with peanuts), and this would work perfectly the next time I need to bring a snack! To quote Madison (who is 4), these are “beautiful” and “yummy in my tummy”. Needless to say, these were a big hit in my house!