Homeschooling with A.D.H.D. Parenting with L.O.V.E.
My youngest son is obsessed with learning how to count money. In his mind, counting money equals earning money. I don’t have the heart to tell him that’s not true quite yet. But I am glad that he’s willing to put in the work to learn how to count amounts of money and, to help him out,Keep Reading…
What kid doesn’t love going to the zoo? We take ours every month and they always find a new animal to obsess over. Last time, it was the lions. (To be fair, lions are pretty awesome.) Since we’re still working on teaching our kids Spanish, I thought I’d make up a set of Spanish zooKeep Reading…
Preschoolers love to pretend to deliver mail. When we took our little ones to a pretend neighborhood, they all wanted to dress up as mail delivery workers and put envelopes in the tiny mailbox. It was adorable. Since learning to recognize colors and color words is an important skill for toddlers and preschoolers to master,Keep Reading…
Hi everyone! I’m back with another set of printable Spanish flashcards! This time, we’re learning about los partes del cuerpo (the parts of the body). If you’re covering the human body with your kids this year, this is a perfect set for introducing some simple Spanish vocabulary! Check out our brand new Spanish parts ofKeep Reading…
My kids absolutely love the classic storybook “Harry the Dirty Dog”. We’ve read it so many times that I’m pretty sure they can recite it by heart. Backwards. Reading the story is a wonderful way to practice early literacy and to spend some storytime with the kids, but I wanted to add a few story extensionKeep Reading…
Working with basic patterns is an important math concept for early learners. So why not make it fun? Little ones always love to use their hands whenever they can and that’s why I wanted to make a set of colorful cars pattern clip cards! These little printables are perfect for small hands to work withKeep Reading…
One of Piglet’s favorite subjects to discuss is how “big” she’s getting. On any given morning, she may emerge from her bedroom shouting “I’m getting so big!” or “I’m almost as big as you now, Mama!” Preschoolers are often fixated on getting “big”, which is a surefire way to know that they’re starting to noticeKeep Reading…
Preschoolers (and adults, for that matter) love playing with playdough! And, by the way, when you need something to occupy your kids quietly, playdough is a wonderful resource. It’s quiet, it’s easy to clean up, and it’s affordable. On a personal note – I just want to know: Are my kids the only ones whoKeep Reading…
It’s time for another set of free printable flashcards! I hope you all are enjoying these, because I love sharing them with you! This week, we’re offering a set of free flashcards for learning the American Sign Language alphabet! Even if you don’t know anyone who’s deaf or hard or hearing, you can still useKeep Reading…
One of the things I love most about spring is waiting for rain showers to end so we can try to spot some rainbows. You know how you always heard about “the end of the rainbow”? Well, it turns out there is no end. I just read the other day that the rainbow always changesKeep Reading…
Spring is finally here! And it’s a great time of year to read one of our favorite children’s books: The Grouchy Ladybug by Eric Carle. As we read the story, we talked a bit about how ladybugs are beautifully designed with colorful spots and lines. And that’s when I decided to share a few printable activitiesKeep Reading…
Springtime is just around the corner? Can you feel it? I absolutely adore spring. The earth starts waking up, the birds come back to roost, and the plants around us begin to bloom again! And….it’s also rainy. But no rain, no flowers, right? Our youngest child is working on basic addition this year and we’reKeep Reading…
Happy Spring everyone! We had a colder than usual winter here in the South, so we’ve been anxiously awaiting the arrival of Spring this year. Now that it’s finally here, we’re catching a little spring fever. And what better way to jump into spring than by learning about flowers? Today we’re sharing a flowers printableKeep Reading…
There’s nothing better than feeling the air start to gradually warm, the birds start to sing, and the flowers start to bloom! I don’t hate winter, but I don’t like it all. So the beginning of spring is a wonderful time of year for me. To help the kids get ready for spring, I’m sharing aKeep Reading…
We have two very active boys in our family. They are not big fans of language arts. But they ARE big fans of anything related to construction. So I thought I’d make a language arts contractions lesson that lets them learn how to “build” basic English contractions: Construction Contractions! It’s a complete construction themed language artsKeep Reading…
My little one has taken to reading much quicker than I imagined. I hoarded so many books for learning to read with the specific intention of using them with her. And then she never needed a single one. Go figure. One thing that has been a little difficult for her to grasp, though, is rhyming.Keep Reading…
This is a sponsored post written by me on behalf of the American Dental Association. What was your view of going to the dentist when you were a kid? If I’m being honest, I’d have to say that I had no view of it at all. Good oral health wasn’t stressed in our family, andKeep Reading…
We’ve got more free printable flashcards for you today! This time, we’re sharing free contraction flashcards with a fun construction theme! My boys are deep into a construction phase right now. Roo, in particular, is obsessed with earth movers, bulldozers, cranes, dump trucks, and just about anything related to building. He told me last weekKeep Reading…
Our smallest learner has been recognizing numbers for years. She can count all the way to 100 and she is so proud to tell you about it. Every. Single. Chance. She. Gets. But I noticed that she needed a little more help recognizing number words, so I wanted to make learning that as fun asKeep Reading…
We’re back with another set of free printable flashcards! This time, we’re talking about short vowel sounds. Personally, I didn’t learn to read with phonics and neither did our oldest daughter. Our oldest boy, though, really needed help with phonic sounds, so we focused on long and short vowel sounds pretty early. I thought I’dKeep Reading…
As we started studying history in our homeschool, I was disheartened to see how little information was available about Africa for elementary-aged children. One of the programs we tried did not mention African kingdoms at all until fourth grade. Which meant that the first mention my children would get of African people at all wouldKeep Reading…
