Homeschooling with A.D.H.D. Parenting with L.O.V.E.
If I want my boys to learn anything at all, I just have to find a way to include basketball. They are big fans of the sport and they love everything B-ball related. So when I was ready for them to practice multiplication facts, I thought “What better way to get them interested than toKeep Reading…
Over the last month, we’ve featured free printable flashcards for learning shapes, colors, and alphabet animals. Today I’m sharing a set of free ASL number flashcards for learning how to sign the numbers 0-9 in sign language! I’ve been using American Sign Language since I was a child. In fact, my husband, I, and ourKeep Reading…
Learning to count is one of the most important skills for early learners. After all, until you learn to count, you won’t be able to tell that your sibling got more cookies than you. Which, if you ask any three-year-old, is one of the world’s greatest injustices. We loved using manipulatives and printables to helpKeep Reading…
I hope you’ve been enjoying our Printable Spanish Flashcards series! Today I’m sharing a new set of flashcards: Spanish Color Flashcards! I don’t know why it took me so long to make these. After all, learning to identify colors is one of the most important concepts for toddlers and preschoolers. Chalk it up to mommyKeep Reading…
Since we’ve been working through BookShark Level 1 with our youngest, we’ve gotten to read plenty of wonderful stories. When I looked at the bookshelf and noticed we had yet to read Green Eggs and Ham, though, I wanted to jump for joy. As a child, I read The Cat In the Hat first. ButKeep Reading…
Have you ever taken a preschooler out to shop for clothes? My four-year-old has recently developed a severe aversion to particular colors and textures, so shopping for clothing is…an interesting experience. Here’s a sample exchange: Me: “What do you think about this shirt?” Her: *waves both arms frantically* “No, Mom! I only like purple rightKeep Reading…
Want to learn more español with your kids? These Spanish months of the year flashcards are perfect for learning los meses del año! You can use these for calendar time, spelling practice, a matching game, and more. And, since the English and Spanish month words are on each card, you can even use them toKeep Reading…
My youngest son is obsessed with making things. He’s built a working fishing pole, a wobble racer, and even a 3-D paper basketball playset, complete with players who actually shoot the ball into the hoop. We’ve always encouraged our kids to learn about their history, so I thought it would be cool for him toKeep Reading…
My kids, like almost all kids, love learning about animals. We’ve studied animal habitats, animals who are nocturnal and diurnal, and animals who hibernate already. With our youngest, though, it was time to learn about animal diets: which animal eats what. And nothing makes that concept more real than a field trip to interact withKeep Reading…
I don’t love winter. Not by a long shot. It’s a bit too cold for this native Floridian. But winter is a lovely theme for preschool. Kids love working with lessons that feature snow, snowmen, icicles, penguins, and all those adorable winter animals. So I decided to overlook my bias toward winter and share thisKeep Reading…
Family night is a wonderful way to spend quality time with the kids, especially after everyone’s had a busy week. If you’re not careful, though, family night can end up being a movie and a snack….every single time. How can you keep family time fun, even when the kids are little? An indoor scavenger hunt!Keep Reading…
It’s time for another of our second-grade activities this week and today is all about states of matter for second graders. Superheroes are all the rage right now and Pooh is a huge fan of them as well. So, when it was time to talk about states of matter in science, I thought I’d addKeep Reading…
My daughters are huge fans of the movie The Jungle Book. I mean HUGE fans. They ask me to rewatch it all the time. Because I’m a child of the 80s, I was initially resistant to the idea of The Jungle Book being remade. Cartoon Baloo singing “The Bare Necessities” is good stuff. But once IKeep Reading…
I am a huge grammar nerd. I’ve always loved learning about language and how we use it. My oldest is a fellow ELA junkie, but my middle kids are…less enthusiastic about learning the rules of lexicon. Plus, I just wanted to make a basic ELA lesson more fun, especially for our rising second grader. SoKeep Reading…
Learning to read is one of the most important and celebrated milestones in education. And with good reason! If you can read, you can do anything else you want in life. If we want our kids to become readers for life, though, we have to start teaching them to love reading while they’re young. ThereKeep Reading…
I’m happy to share a brand new pack of printable flashcards with you all today! This time we’re featuring printable Zoo Animal Flashcards! We go to the zoo often with the kids and they always love spotting new animals or even ones they’ve come to know and love over the years. So I thought thatKeep Reading…
Winter is such a cozy time for learning with little ones. I’m a scaredy-cat about cold weather, so once the daily average dips below 50 degrees, you’ll find me inside with my kids. Probably sitting directly in front of the space heater. But that doesn’t mean we can’t have some fun winter-themed learning! And that’sKeep Reading…
Hey everyone! We’re ready to begin a new unit study about polar animals! To help the kids get interested in researching and notebooking, we put together a set of polar animal notebooking pages that highlights ten different animals of the Arctic and the Antarctic. These are wonderful for finding out more about these incredible creaturesKeep Reading…
If you’re teaching your kids at home, you’ve probably discovered that there are several ways to learn how to teach history. You could do it by starting with the history of the country in which you live and then proceeding out to the rest of the world. Many curriculum companies use this approach. You could startKeep Reading…
We’ve had some extremely cold weather (for us) recently and we’ve all been stuck indoors. So it’s an excellent time to share a brand new set of Spanish worksheets for kids with all of you! Yay! This is a super resource if you’re teaching Spanish to your kids in grades PK-Grade 3. It’s a Spanish TellingKeep Reading…
The air is getting cooler and we’ve started noticing flocks of birds flying in a “V” formation around our town. Even Piglet shouts “All those birds, Mama!” when she sees them. 🙂 So I thought our next set of printable flashcards should be a set of bird identification flashcards! Read on to get yours! IfKeep Reading…
