Homeschooling with A.D.H.D. Parenting with L.O.V.E.
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…
Winter is not my favorite season. Snow is beautiful, but I cannot abide cold weather. I simply cannot. Which makes winter the best season of all for crafting! And that’s why I love this super cute and easy pinecone snowman craft for kids! This is an awesome art activity for a cold winter day, sinceKeep Reading…
We’re back to learning español this week with a new set of free printable flashcards! This time, we’re sharing Spanish number flashcards for numbers 1-10! Childhood is a wonderful time to learn a foreign language. Kids’ brains just slurp up the nuances of language like you would not believe. So why not give them aKeep Reading…
Today, I’m sharing yet another set of flashcards for you! So far, we’ve already learned Spanish days of the week, Spanish opposite words, and Spanish food words with flashcards. This week, it’s on to Spanish family flashcards! Our set of free printable flashcards is called “La Familia” and it’s all about how to say basicKeep Reading…
My ten-year-old son is the artist in the family. And by that I mean he wants to be an artist. He’s very interested in drawing and painting, but sadly, neither his father nor I are qualified in the least to teach him those skills. What’s more, we don’t have any local homeschool art programs that areKeep Reading…
Counting is one of the most important skills kids learn in preschool. But there’s more to counting than just reciting numerals from 1 to 10. Kids also need to learn how to use ordinal numbers to assign sequential order to objects in a line. Actually, preschoolers usually have a pretty good idea of what “first”Keep Reading…
It’s time for another entry in our second-grade activity series! This week, we’re talking about how to help second graders count and identify syllables in common words. With Pooh, we use the typical “clap it out” method to count syllables. So we’ll have him say a word and then for each sound he hears, heKeep Reading…
It’s the middle of September and we’re nearing my favorite time of the year: fall! Which gave me a perfect excuse to share some of my favorite free fall printables for kids! We’ll be using several fall themes for unit studies with our kids in the upcoming weeks, including leaves, farms, harvest, and apples. IfKeep Reading…
We have children with ADHD in our family. Which means that getting them to follow a daily routine is critical to helping them manage their attention spans and complete their schoolwork. But routines aren’t just good for managing ADHD. They’re also helpful for teaching preschoolers and kindergartners to structure their days around the home or atKeep Reading…
I just love making crafts during the fall. There’s something about the cooler air, warmer clothing, and changing colors that makes even me (a non-crafty person) feel like creating. And it has the same affect on my kids! This year, though, I wanted to share more of the actual fall season with the kids, whichKeep Reading…
It’s the start of a new homeschooling year and, for many of us, that brings a ton of excitement about our new books, our new curriculum, and the kids’ new grade levels. But we’ve been at this homeschooling thing for nearly ten years now and I’m here to tell you that the excitement… is goingKeep Reading…
We’ve always wanted to build a love for reading in our kids. Now that we’re down to just one child in early grades, we’re pretty much done with teaching early reading skills. No more phonics, no more decoding, no more CVC word practice. All four of our kids are off to the reading races. OurKeep Reading…
This is a sponsored post written by me on behalf of Duck Brand® for IZEA Worldwide. All opinions are 100% mine. Since we are teaching multiple children with attention issues, we always try to make our school lessons as fun and engaging as possible. Particularly when it comes to math. Math is one of thoseKeep Reading…
The concept of even and odd is one of those math topics that I know, but I don’t know how I know it, you know? I know that 1, 3, 5, 7, and 9 are odd numbers and I know that 2, 4, 6, 8, and 10 are even numbers, but I have no recollectionKeep Reading…
I love teaching shapes to early learners. It’s just plain fun. There are shapes all around us! So, once you introduce basic shapes to your preschoolers, expect them to point them out everywhere they look. *Pointing to a window* – “Look, Mommy! A square!” *Pointing to a plate* – “Look, Mommy! A circle!” *Me pointingKeep Reading…
