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Fire Safety Smart: Fire Safety Printables for Kids

September 29, 2014 by Selena Robinson 6 Comments

According to the National Fire Prevention Association, some of the most important aspects of fire safety planning are testing the home smoke detector and developing a home fire escape plan. A fire escape plan should include the rooms in your home and the route that the entire family will take to escape in case of fire.

Since fires often break out without warning, it’s critical that families decide on an escape route in advance and practice evacuating the home. In honor of National Fire Safety Week, I’m thrilled to announce the release of our newest printable pack: Fire Safety Smart! With this pack of cut and paste fire safety printables, you can get the kids in on the fire safety planning for your home!

How to Use This Pack of Fire Safety Printables

Fire Safety Smart! is designed to help kids learn the layout of their homes and to help develop the best escape route from the house. With the pack, you and your kids can do a walkthrough of the home to identify all of the rooms. Then, you can decide which direction the entire family will go to meet at a safe place outside the home.

Since the pack includes cut and paste cards for common household rooms, you can use it to teach fire safety, practice scissor skills, and basic reading!

Fire Safety Smart! is now available in our store for instant download for just $1.99! Click the image below to visit our store and download your Fire Safety Smart! pack.

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For even more fire safety lesson ideas, visit Ready.gov’s page on fire safety or read the following books with your kids!

Books about Fire Safety for Kids:

The Berenstain Bears: Safe and Sound! – Jan & Mike Berenstain
Big Frank’s Fire Truck – Leslie McGuire
Stop Drop and Roll (A Book about Fire Safety) – Margery Cuyler
Arthur’s Fire Drill – Marc Brown

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My Favorite Things for Homeschooling with ADHD

September 26, 2014 by Selena Robinson 1 Comment

Since we’re homeschooling several kids with ADHD, we generally have to make a few adjustments for our kids to make it through a school day. I don’t generally reduce the amount of work we try to cover, but I do change the way we cover our lessons.

One of our biggest changes has been to use a few specific tools for homeschooling with ADHD so that the kids can maintain their focus for as long as possible. I’ve recently begun contributing at The Homeschool Post, and today I’m guest posting about some of my favorite things for homeschooling with ADHD!

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Fun Ways to Learn at Home with Family Fun Friday!

September 25, 2014 by Selena Robinson 4 Comments

It’s time for another edition of Family Fun Friday! I’ve been having a blast checking out everyone’s posts, so be sure to keep linking up. I’m always on the hunt for new posts to feature. 😉 This week, I really appreciated some of the fun ways to learn at home!

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How to Keep a Homeschool Tantrum from Derailing Your School Day

September 24, 2014 by Selena Robinson 11 Comments

Homeschooling moms have the dual challenge of serving as parents AND teachers during the day, which means we often have to deal with a homeschool tantrum or two on occasion. Yay! Not.

When a child throws a temper tantrum, it can disrupt the entire school day. And if you’re homeschooling more than one child, it can distract the other kids from their lessons, make you angry, and throw off your whole schedule for the week. Since we’re homeschooling children with ADHD, it’s essential that we stick to our regular school schedule, so I just cannot afford to have the school day disrupted by a temper tantrum.

Today, I thought I’d share a few of the things that have worked for us in keeping a homeschool tantrum at bay. I’ll also be including a few things that did NOT work, just for comparison. 🙂

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Tips for Dealing with a Homeschool Tantrum

Find out what’s wrong. Before you even attempt to handle the tantrum, try to learn why your child is upset. Trust me, this can be difficult. Especially if they’re screaming incoherently at the time. Is your child frustrated because he can’t understand a concept? Is she feeling overwhelmed? Ask your child what’s wrong and then try to listen patiently as he explains.

What does NOT work: Shouting at your child to “Be quiet!”

Establish a regular schedule. Pooh, our oldest boy, is extremely cranky in the mornings. He tends to sleep restlessly and he frequently has night terrors. As a result, he really needs time to wake up at his own pace without being rushed. So, we decided to begin school a bit later in the day to avoid making him concentrate at an early hour. Before I realized that was a problem, he had tantrums almost every day. When we stick with the schedule, though, he rests better and he behaves better.

What does NOT work: Beginning school at a different time each morning

Keep right on teaching. This one is probably the most important. No matter what you do, continue with your lesson plan to the extent you possibly can. Naturally, if you have a kicking and screaming child in your school room, you may have to stop to remove him or her to a safe place. (I’ve had to do that on occasion.) But, if you drop your lesson plan completely, you’ve just told your child that he or she can make school “stop” by throwing a fit. Once you send that message, you’ll have a hard time teaching every day afterward.

What does NOT work: Stopping your lesson for that day

When I follow these three tips, temper tantrums in our family become minor hiccups instead of major obstacles. How do you handle homeschool tantrums? Do you have any suggestions for how to manage temper tantrums while homeschooling? Let us know in the comments!

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Pumpkin Spice Latte No Cook Playdough

September 12, 2014 by Selena Robinson 2 Comments

Hey everyone! It’s time for our 12 Months of Sensory Dough linkup! Every month, I’m honored to co-host this linky with 11 other bloggers, including Dayna at Lemon Lime Adventures, Val & Alex at Glittering Muffins, Devany at Still Playing School, Sarah at Little Bins for Little Hands, Kimberly at Natural Beach Living, Melissa Ann at The Eyes of a Boy, Nicolette at Powerful Mothering, Amy at Wildflower Ramblings, Rachel at I Heart Crafty Things, Michelle at Delightful Learning, and Jennifer at The Life of Jennifer Dawn!

Fall is in the air! We’ve been enjoying our sensory dough this year and I thought “Why not make a fall sensory dough?” What says fall? Pumpkin Spice Lattes!

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French Language Learning with Mango Languages!

September 12, 2014 by Selena Robinson 7 Comments

Bonjour! We’ve just begun learning French with the kids with Mango Languages! I recently got the chance to try the program, and the kids are already asking when we can take more lessons. That’s always a good sign, right?

Mango Languages offers more than 60 languages and dialects for students, including Spanish, French, and even Ancient Greek! We settled on French, but the kids were excited to see that we could learn just about any language!

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Educational Crafts for Kids with Family Fun Friday!

September 11, 2014 by Selena Robinson 7 Comments

It’s time for another edition of Family Fun Friday! On behalf of my co-hosts, I want to say thanks for visiting and linking up last week! We had a blast featuring our favorite homeschool curriculum options from the linky, and this week we’re sharing some great educational crafts for kids!

Keep reading to learn about our wonderful co-hosts, see my favorite features from last week, and share your own posts!

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Why Homeschooling Little Ones is Easier Than Homeschooling Teens

September 8, 2014 by Selena Robinson 7 Comments

We’ve got four learners in our house under the age of 10, so we’re right in the middle of homeschooling little ones. As all of my mama readers know, when you have kids, there are lots of great days, a good amount of okay days, and a fair amount of rough days.

It’s important that we take a break to focus on what we have so we can appreciate it before it’s gone. I know that these days with my kids won’t last forever, so it’s up to me to value them NOW, rather than later.

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Weird Science Facts for Kids with Ripley’s Reality Shock!

September 5, 2014 by Selena Robinson 2 Comments

Do your kids like to learn about weird science facts? Ours do! Especially since they tend to lose interest in a structured science lesson. 🙂

We got the chance to visit Ripley’s Believe It or Not! in Orlando, Florida when Tigger was very young, but we haven’t been able to get back since. We did, however, get the opportunity to learn some of Ripley’s signature weird science facts right in our own home!

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How to Afford Homeschooling

August 26, 2014 by Selena Robinson 8 Comments

We’ve been living frugally for quite some time, but when my husband was out of work, we took frugality to new heights. 🙂 As a homeschooling family, we’re already living on a reduced income, since I don’t work full-time. But we managed to stick with homeschooling using lots of effort, budgeting, and patience.

We’re sharing some of these same tips with our new readers in our ebook “How to Afford Homeschooling!” And now you can grab your copy in our Store!

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In this 24-page ebook, you’ll find helpful hints and tips for how to afford homeschooling, even if you’re a one-income family! Chapters in the book include topics such as:

Saving Money Around the House
How to Make Money from Home
Ways to Protect Your Family from Overspending
Cooking on a Budget
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There’s even a section on how to have an honest talk about finances with your spouse, especially if he’s not convinced that your family can afford to homeschool.

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Our Simple ADHD Homeschool Schedule

August 25, 2014 by Selena Robinson 15 Comments

We’ve been homeschooling for several years, but we still make adjustments to our homeschool schedule each year. And once we learned that some of our children had ADHD, we had to make some drastic changes to our daily routine.

I’ve been reading some great books on managing ADHD with kids, and I’ve learned some excellent tips about time and school management for kids with ADHD.

As a result, we’ve instituted a simple ADHD homeschool schedule. And it’s made a world of difference in making homeschooling days run more smoothly – for me AND the kids!

Read on to get a look at our typical day. And if you need more flexibility in your homeschool day, check our list of 15 different ADHD homeschool schedule ideas!

A Look at Our ADHD Homeschool Schedule

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If you look at our ADHD homeschool schedule, you’ll notice that all of the school lessons are limited to 30 minutes MAX. That’s one of the important adjustments of this year, but so far, I’ve already seen improvements.

We also try to cover the basic subjects as early in the morning as possible. It generally makes the afternoon run smoother.

Morning:

7:30 a.m. (ish) – Wake up

I don’t really set a strict wake up time for the kids. They’re generally up by 7:30 a.m., but if they’re not, I let them sleep until they wake on their own. Pooh, in particular, needs time to wake up before he starts his day.

8:00 a.m. – Breakfast

8:30 a.m. – Copywork/Handwriting

We go over a different scripture each day and I use that verse as our copywork for the day. The kids clean up the breakfast dishes and bring their notebooks to the table to do copywork. Piglet generally sits in and draws with her Color Wonder markers.

9:00 a.m. – Math

I separate the kids for math. Tigger does her own work on the computer. We use several programs, including A+ Interactive Math, Khan Academy, and TenMarks. I let her go at her own pace, and I generally keep the entire lesson to 30 minutes or less.

The boys and I do a math lesson in the living room using “Life of Fred” and math manipulatives.

9:30 a.m. – Daily chores

The kids do their chores (usually two tasks per person) and then they make their lunches for the day.

10:00 a.m. – Language Arts

I don’t require that we have a structured language arts lesson each day, but we do cover all of the subjects (spelling, English, and writing) several times a week.

10:30 a.m. – Individual Reading

Each child gets to read with me for a few minutes alone. I generally read a short story with Roo first, then Pooh and I read a section of an early reader chapter book. Tigger and I are working our way through the Nancy Drew series and we’re on Book 1: The Secret of the Old Clock.

11:00 a.m. – Family Lesson

Everyday, we have a family lesson where we all cover the same subject together. Monday is Science, Tuesday is History, Wednesday is Geography, Thursday is Art/Music, and Friday is Foreign Language. (More about these in a future post.)

11:30 a.m – Family Unit Study

I try to pick at least one topic per month for our family unit studies. We usually read from a textbook or storybook and do an activity together each day.

Afternoon

In the afternoon, our ADHD homeschool schedule includes more of the “extras”. Unless we don’t finish covering the essentials in the morning.

12:00 p.m. – Lunch

Since they make the lunch themselves earlier in the morning, I don’t have to do much during lunch. Tigger generally helps Piglet with her food and I get a little break.

12:30 p.m. – Clean up and change for P.E.

We’re having the kids “dress for school” this year, so after lunch they change into play clothes for P.E.

1:00 p.m. – P.E.

We use Family Time Fitness for P.E. So far, we’ve been focusing on basic physical movements and helping the kids learn the difference between sports terms like “pass”, “throw”, “jump”, “hop”, etc.

1:45 p.m. – Showers and change clothes

I’ve recently made the decision to start giving showers earlier in the day. By the end of the day, we’re all exhausted and Jay and I just don’t feel up to the task. The kids seem to relax a bit more for quiet time when they’ve had a shower beforehand as well.

2:15 p.m. – Storytime

I generally read a story or part of a story before quiet time. I try to choose calm stories that won’t work them up too much. Otherwise, they’ll get in the bed and play around the whole time…lol.

2:30 p.m. – Quiet Time

This is the first year that I am NOT requiring a longer quiet time for the kids. Tigger is actually sleeping more this year than last. We suspect that it’s because she’s entering puberty and her body needs the rest.

If she goes to sleep, then I don’t wake her. We can always move the other tasks to later in the day. (One of the many perks of homeschooling!)

3:00 p.m. – Workbox Time

We do our workbox time right after Quiet Time, since it’s a quiet activity the older kids can do while Piglet is asleep. She generally naps for an hour and, by the time 3:30 rolls around, she’s up and raring to go!

3:30 p.m. – One-on-One Time with Mom

In my dream world, I’d have individual time with each child everyday. That’s just not practical, though – at least not when we’re following our regular school schedule.

So the kids alternate one-on-one time with me each day. Pooh gets Monday, Roo gets Tuesday, Tigger gets Wednesday, and Piglet gets Thursday. Friday is Mom’s one-on-one time with herself.

4:00 p.m. – Media Time

Media time is saved for the absolute very last part of the day. It’s a treat that they get to enjoy if we’ve gotten everything else done that day.

In the past, I would let them watch some TV around 11:30 p.m., particularly while I was making lunch. But they got so worked up after watching TV that they made a colossal mess while eating. Now I save media time until the end and things are better.

And that’s a look at our ADHD homeschool schedule, for this year at least. I’d love to hear about your daily homeschooling plans this year! Feel free to share them in the comments.

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This post is part of the “2014 Not Back to School Hop” from iHomeschool Network! Click on over to read how our fellow bloggers schedule their homeschooling days!

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5 Homeschool Art and Music Curriculum Choices

August 23, 2014 by Selena Robinson Leave a Comment

Our children love art and music! Tigger is extremely interested in dance and playing music. Roo and Pooh love drawing and painting. So, we try to find good art and music curriculum choices to keep them interested.

If you’re searching for homeschool art and music curriculum, check out these five options to add both subjects to your weekly lessons!

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5 Homeschool Language Arts Curriculum Resources

August 21, 2014 by Selena Robinson Leave a Comment

Language arts is one of the most important aspects of a good homeschooling education. Since we’re eclectic homeschoolers, we tend to mix and match resources for most subjects, including language arts.

Today, I’m sharing five homeschool language arts curriculum resources to help you put together your own language arts program! Trust me, it’s easier than you think. 😉 I hope you find these suggestions helpful!

Resources for Homeschool Language Arts Curriculum

How to Choose “Just Right” Books: Helping Kids Grow as Readers – Becky Spence

I’m a huge enormous bookworm, but that doesn’t mean that my kids will automatically love reading. A big part of helping kids love to read is choosing books that are a good fit for their age and comprehension level. We don’t want to set them up for frustration by handing them books that are above their reading ability. Becky Spence shares excellent suggestions for choosing books that are “just right” for your kids in How to Choose “Just Right” Books: Helping Kids Grow as Readers.

Designing Your Language Arts Curriculum – Jimmie Lanley

What’s involved in a good language arts curriculum? Ideally, we should be including grammar, reading, literature, spelling, and penmanship. If you’re wondering how you can possibly include all of those subjects in your lesson plan, Jimmie Lanley explains how you can in Designing Your Language Arts Curriculum.

Understanding Copywork – Amy Maze

Copywork is a grammar concept from the Charlotte Mason style of education. It involves having children practice penmanship and grammar by copying excerpts from examples of excellent writing. If you’re wondering just why copywork is beneficial and how to include it in your homeschool, Amy Maze’s Understanding Copywork is a perfect primer on the subject!

Essay Tune Up – Jimmie Lanley

Writing an essay doesn’t have to be a difficult assignment for kids. In Essay Tune Up, Jimmie Lanley offers printable worksheets to help students break essays into sections: introduction, details, and conclusion. She also includes prewriting organizers, cheat sheets for better transitions, and a peer editing checklist!

Writing a Biography – Valerie McClintick

Since writing about a real person can involve lots of research and preparation, it’s important that students learn how to look up information, find good sources, compile their thoughts into an outline, and express them fluently. In Writing a Biography, Valerie McClintick takes elementary-aged students through the step-by-step process of writing a biography for the first time.

Do you have any great homeschool language arts curriculum resources to share? Tell us about them in the comments!

5 Pieces of Homeschooling Advice for the First Year

August 20, 2014 by Selena Robinson 4 Comments

When I first began homeschooling Tigger six years ago, I felt that I had a pretty good understanding of homeschooling. After all, I’m a homeschooling graduate myself.

I quickly found, though, that being a homeschool student and being a homeschool parent are two very different things indeed. Now I was responsible for providing a quality education to my little preschooler and I wasn’t even sure I knew what preschoolers needed to learn!

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5 Homeschool Preschool Curriculum Tips

August 19, 2014 by Selena Robinson 3 Comments

We’ve already been through preschool with three of our kids, but we still have one more to go. 🙂 As a result, I’m always on the lookout for tips for using homeschool preschool curriculum in our family. Even after six years of homeschooling, I still manage to find great suggestions for teaching homeschool preschool in the home.

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2014-15 First Day of School Photos

August 18, 2014 by Selena Robinson 17 Comments

The new homeschool year is underway! Our back to school tradition is to take first day of homeschool photos each year, so we’re sharing our first day of homeschool photos for 2014-15. 🙂

To make the first day of school a little more memorable, I found some adorable Back to School Signs at Enchanted Homeschooling Mom and printed them out. There’s space to share the kids’ names, favorite books, ages, and what they want to be when they grow up.

Tigger: 4th Grade

Age: 9

Favorite Book: Nikki and Deja

What She Wants to be When She Grows Up: Musician

Pooh: 1st Grade

Age: 6

Favorite Book: Germs, Germs, Germs

What He Wants to be When He Grows Up: Police Officer

First Day of Homeschool Pictures 2014-15: Look! We're Learning!

Roo: Kindergarten

Age: 5

Favorite Book: The Big Bug Search or what he calls the “Insect Book”

What He Wants to be When He Grows Up: “Bethel Builder” (He means he wants to help build the world headquarters of Jehovah’s Witnesses in Warwick, NY.)

Piglet: Tot School (seen here holding her favorite bear and signing “Mama” in ASL)

Age: 20 months

Favorite Book: Anything she can tear

What She Wants to be When She Grows Up: We suspect she thinks she’s already grown. 😉

And those are our student pictures for this year! We’re looking forward to sharing our experiences as we learn and grow together in 2014-15. 🙂

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Our ADHD Homeschool Room Layout

August 13, 2014 by Selena Robinson 4 Comments

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We’re still in the back to school groove around here, so we thought we’d share some of the changes we made to our homeschooling space. We still hold classes around our dining room table, but we did make a few changes to our walls to create a better ADHD homeschool room.

I love the idea of a “school-y” type room, complete with educational posters, wall charts, a flower clock, and manuscript handwriting charts around the top of the walls. (Remember those in elementary school?) However, that is NOT what’s best for my kids.

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Our Homeschool Workbox Organization

August 11, 2014 by Selena Robinson 18 Comments

Last year, we ventured into the world of homeschool workboxes. This year, we’re focusing on improving our homeschool workbox organization, so that our school day can get off to a decent start every morning. 🙂

I love workboxes! They’re like little fun boxes that make school work seem more interesting. My kids love using the workboxes. We do our workbox assignments during quiet time, which I’ll talk about in a future post, and that seems to make them feel more “grown-up”, especially since Piglet naps during that time.

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Our Unit Study Topics for 2014-15

August 6, 2014 by Selena Robinson 6 Comments

I’m contributing over at Year Round Homeschooling today with a post about Unit Studies – what they are and how to make one yourself. So I thought I’d share our family’s unit study topics for the 2014-15 school year!

When we’re planning our homeschool year, we try to ask the children about the things they personally want to learn about. As you can imagine, we get all kinds of responses. 🙂

This time, though, we’re going to use their suggestions as the basis for our unit studies, which we’ll also be sharing with you during the year!

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Learn Rounding Numbers the Easy Way

January 28, 2013 by Selena Robinson Leave a Comment

Okay, I admit it: I’m not the most patient person in the world. Which is yet another reason why I love homeschooling so much. We don’t have to meet arbitrary deadlines for scholastic progress, so I can take as long as we need to cover one topic.

One of the things Tigger struggled with early on was rounding and estimating. When we originally covered it in grade one, she couldn’t let go of counting each number and just guess at the amount. But, when you think about it, that makes sense.

We spend weeks teaching them how to count and then after they learn that, we tell them, “Okay, now don’t count. Just guess how many you think there are.” In retrospect, that does seem kind of silly.

Thankfully, I found an easier way to help her learn rounding numbers!

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Learn Rounding Numbers the Easy Way

Instead of trying to discuss rounding over and over again, I just dropped it and decided to come back to it later. This time, she picked it up on the very first day. She learned rounding and I got yet another lesson in being patient.

Tigger really does well with step-by-step processes, so I used this anchor chart that I saw on Pinterest as our guide for the week. With each problem, we walked through the process and by the end of the lesson, she was doing it in her head.

The basic strategy to learn rounding numbers is:

1. Find the place to which you are rounding.

2. Locate the number to the right of that place and draw an arrow to it.

3. If the number is 5 or more, you round the underlined place up.

4. If the number is less than 5, you keep the number in the underlined place the same.

5. Change everything from the arrow to the right to a zero.

Done!

It does take a few tries and we spent our entire math lesson that morning going over the steps. But when Tigger got it, she retained it and (finally!) conquered rounding. 🙂

Now I’m not a professional educator, so I don’t use anchor charts all the time, but I have found them to be extremely helpful for teaching multi-step processes. If you’d like to look at some of my inspiration, follow my Anchor Chart Ideas board on Pinterest!

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How did you help your kids learn rounding numbers? Share your tips in the comments!

How to Teach Preschoolers to Play Quietly

January 28, 2013 by Selena Robinson 1 Comment

Are you homeschooling more than one child? If so, you’ve probably dealt with the challenge of getting your preschoolers to play quietly while your older kids are working. When I first started this school year, I envisioned all of my children sitting quietly at the table working together.

Here’s the problem with that scenario: Roo and Pooh are three and four years old, respectively. They’re not going to sit quietly on their own for long.

Instead of peacefully working, Roo took to making faces at Tigger while she was trying to work and Pooh busied himself by asking me a million and one questions. Something had to give.

Fortunately, I learned a wonderful way to teach preschoolers to play quietly and I’m sharing it with you all today!

How We Taught Our Preschoolers to Play Quietly

What helped us get our preschoolers to play quietly? Morning Time.

When you get a chance, click over and read the post about Morning Time at Hodgepodge to find out what it entails, but it’s basically a training session to help the younger kids get used to working quietly by themselves.

I decided to let them listen to a Bible drama about the 10 Plagues and play with LEGO DUPLO Blocks. It did take a few tries to help them understand that they actually had to be quiet for about 20 minutes, but they got the hang of it by the end.

Tips for Getting Preschoolers to Play Quietly

That picture right there? A thing of quiet beauty and a joy forever. 🙂

We also instituted a list of Quiet Time activities. Since the boys aren’t reading yet, I made a sheet with pictures of quiet activities they can choose from.

They can select which one they want to do and then stick with it for 20 minutes while I finish a lesson with Tigger. It’s working so far!

If you’d like to use a Quiet Time activity list with your kids, feel free to download our free Quiet Time Activity Cards! You can cut them out, laminate them (here’s an affiliate link for my favorite laminator), and let your preschoolers pick which activity they’d like to do!

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Resources to Help Preschoolers Play Quietly:

Here are some more excellent resources to help your kids learn to enjoy quiet play!

For more resources for your smallest learners, follow my Learning for Little Ones board on Pinterest!

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