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Not So Fast, Max – A Rosh Hashanah Visit with Grandma

March 28, 2021 By Claire Annette Noland Leave a Comment

Not So Fast, Max – A Rosh Hashanah Visit with Grandma

The only thing I like better than visiting an apple orchard is reading a book that takes me there. And, when recipes are included, I know it’s a book for me. NOT SO FAST, MAX – A Rosh Hashanah Visit with Grandma By Annette Schottenfeld (author) and Jennifer Kirkham (illustrator) Kalaniot Books Picture book for […]

Filed Under: Bookish Field Trips, Celebrate, Farm Fresh, Food, picture books Tagged With: Annette Schottenfeld, Apple picture books, family traditions, Jewish children's books, Not So Fast Max, Rosh Hashana picture book

The Last Peach

September 13, 2019 By Claire Annette Noland 10 Comments

The Last Peach

I love summer – the late setting sun, the warm weather, and most especially the fruit. Life just seems simpler in the summer. According to my calendar, summer isn’t over yet and I’m going to enjoy every last minute of this season. August is National Peach Month and I challenged myself to make a recipe […]

Filed Under: Books, Farm Fresh, picture books Tagged With: National Peach Month, Peach recipes, Peaches in picture books, The Last Peach by Gus Gordon

Hey, Hey, Hay! Perfect Picture Book Friday

June 8, 2019 By Claire Annette Noland 6 Comments

Hey, Hey, Hay! Perfect Picture Book Friday

Hi Friends, Don’t you love this time of year? Everything is so fresh and green. My daily drive takes me through the countryside and I’ve been watching the hay grow, and grow, and grow! Today I’m joining Susanna Leonard Hill’s Perfect Picture Friday to share a perfect book that’s all about hay!   Title: Hey, […]

Filed Under: Bookish Field Trips, Books, Farm Fresh, Field Trips, picture books

Field Trip Notes: Staycation Edition

June 30, 2016 By Claire Annette Noland 2 Comments

Field Trip Notes: Staycation Edition

Looking back over my calendar I realized that I didn’t travel at all during the month of June. I am always going somewhere so this seemed really odd. I guess you could call it a stay-cation. First of all, the Kings River water was released from the dam. Since we have been in a drought […]

Filed Under: Books, Family, Farm Fresh, Field Trips, Food, Places Tagged With: Apricot Blueberry Upside Down Cake recipe, Berry Lady Farm Store, Bocce Ball, Kingsburg - things to do, Kingsburg Library, Peter in Blueberry Land, Staycation

Field Notes

March 2, 2016 By Claire Annette Noland 4 Comments

Field Notes

  Hello Field Trip Friends! I hope you’ve had a chance lately to travel a bit or read some books set in interesting locations. I thought I’d share a few things that I made note of this past month. I was inspired by my trip to Nicaragua. I will be returning in mid-March and need […]

Filed Under: Books, Farm Fresh, Field Trips, Places Tagged With: Amy Krouse Rosenthal, Brigette arrager illustrator, Fresno County Blossom Trail. Uni the Unicorn, News in Slow Spanish, Runaway Unicorn in Fresno, Sandra Boos photography

Bon Appetit! Happy Birthday to Julia Child

August 15, 2015 By Claire Annette Noland 5 Comments

Bon Appetit! Happy Birthday to Julia Child

Many years ago, I was walking at sunrise on beach near Santa Barbara when I chanced upon a tall lady holding a mesh sack. She stopped to chat and I realized immediately that I was talking with the famous chef, Julia Child. She happily opened her sack and showed me mussels she had collected. She […]

Filed Under: Books, Celebrate, Farm Fresh, Field Trips, Food, Places

Peach Pleasure – Kid Lit (and recipes)

July 7, 2015 By Claire Annette Noland 13 Comments

Peach Pleasure – Kid Lit (and recipes)

It is harvest time for stone fruit! I walk most mornings with the dogs and have been captivated by the trees dripping with fruit. We are experiencing a horrific drought here in Central California but the farmers aren’t giving up. Take a look at these peaches coming soon to a fruit stand or farmers market […]

Filed Under: Books, Farm Fresh, Food, Places Tagged With: children's books about peaches, easy peach recipes, easy peach salsa recipe, From Pit to Peach, James and the Giant Peach, Peach and Blue, peach books, Peach Boy, peach frozen yogurt recipe, Peach Heaven, peaches

W is for Washington D.C.

April 27, 2015 By Claire Annette Noland 10 Comments

W is for Washington D.C.

Welcome to Day 23 in the A to Z Blog Challenge where we post in alphabetical order during April. My blog theme for the month is Read the World with Kid’s Books. W is our letter of the day so we are heading to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue which is, of course, the address for the […]

Filed Under: Books, Citizen Science, Farm Fresh, Field Trips, Food, Places Tagged With: a to z blog challenge, First Garden: The White House Garden and How It Grew, Gardening, Michelle Obama, Read your world, Washington D.C.

Celebrate Pi Day! 3.14152653

March 13, 2015 By Claire Annette Noland 2 Comments

Celebrate Pi Day! 3.14152653

When you live with a math fanatic March 14th is a big day. And, this year it looks like it will be the best ever! It is Pi Day and we are going to celebrate. I first learned of Pi day from my daughter Mee Mee who loves all things math. Since we enjoy all holidays […]

Filed Under: Adoption, Books, Celebrate, Citizen Science, Farm Fresh, Field Trips, Food, Inspirations, Multicultural Children's Books, Places, Uncategorized Tagged With: 3.1415, Albert Einstein's Birthday, I Am Albert Einstein, Pi Day, Pi Day Bracelet, Pi Day Crafts, Pizza Pi, Ugly Pie

Floating into the New Year –

December 31, 2014 By Claire Annette Noland 6 Comments

Floating into the New Year –

  A few months ago my daughter, Roxanne, suggested that we go and decorate the Rose Parade float built by the students at the Cal Poly Universities. I’m always ready for a field trip so we signed up. Unfortunately, Roxanne was scheduled to work on campus so my brother, John, joined me. We kept asking […]

Filed Under: Celebrate, Farm Fresh, Field Trips, Inspirations, Places Tagged With: Cal Poly Rose Parade Float, Cal Poly Soaring Stories Float, New Year's Float, Rose parade, Rose Parade Float building

Nuts for Nuts!

November 11, 2014 By Claire Annette Noland 4 Comments

Nuts for Nuts!

When autumn arrives, most people think of pumpkins and colorful leaves. Now, I like pumpkins and leaves as much as anyone but around here are other signs of the season. I’m thinking of nuts! When I first moved to California’s Central Valley I was amazed to drive past mile after mile of walnut trees. Our […]

Filed Under: Books, Farm Fresh, Field Trips, Food Tagged With: Acorns Everywhere!, Central California walnuts, Chicken Little by Steven Kellogg, children's nut books, fall books, nut books, nuts, Nuts to You!, walnut harvesting, walnuts

Three Books for a Pumpkin Patch

October 30, 2014 By Claire Annette Noland 1 Comment

Three Books for a Pumpkin Patch

Every year my field trip buddy, Carmen, plants an acre of pumpkins at her family’s Bettencourt Farms. She plants a great variety making sure to have giant, tiny, heirloom, and different colored pumpkins. Then she opens her patch to local kids to come and enjoy. I get to be the official pumpkin presenter. Yesterday, Hanford […]

Filed Under: Books, Citizen Science, Farm Fresh, Field Trips, Places Tagged With: Bettencourt Farms, Pumpkin Circle, pumpkin patch, pumpkin patch field trip, pumpkin picture books, Rotten Pumpkin, Scarecrow's Hat, scarecrows

Best Blueberry Books

July 24, 2014 By Claire Annette Noland Leave a Comment

Best Blueberry Books

July is Blueberry Month and the next best thing to eating blueberries is reading about them. On my top 10 best picture book list is Blueberries for Sal. This classic, written by Robert McClosky in 1948, follows Little Sal who is “helping” her mother to pick blueberries which will be canned for the winter. On […]

Filed Under: Books, Farm Fresh, Field Trips, Food

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