Homeschooling with A.D.H.D. Parenting with L.O.V.E.
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
I just love teaching early math skills. There’s nothing like helping little ones learn to make sense of numbers and count from one to ten. It just makes my heart smile when their little eyes light up. And then when they start counting EVERY SINGLE THING on Earth. That’s pretty good, too. To make learningKeep Reading…
