School is here for many of us! This is always a fun time of year. There is so much you can do and many changes coming. I looking over the calendars from last year and thought I wanted to be sure to update some of the calendar pages from last year! I’m starting with the…
I love using calendar printables with my girls. There are all at different ages, so our needs are at different levels. I like having blank to use on the months we don’t want to use a theme. These are update from last year with the school year for August 2014 through July 2015. I thought…
Shark week is coming and it was time to update and Mini Shark Pack! We had lots of fun with this last year but this year I wanted to do a few different things and add more to it. You are going to find some fun math and language for older kids in the Shark…
Loveland Living Planet Aquarium is a great aquarium in the Salt lake City Area! The over all trip was great and we loved how easy it was to find. You are going to find a wide range of animals to see. They have a water tunnel to walk through, penguins, Utah animals, and South America….
This months theme of What Will I Be When I Grow Up? is a great theme for kids! There are always books and ideas for learning about different jobs and things they can be. This is a great time to do some pretend play and have fun. There are some places you can can explore…
Once again we are at a new author for the Virtual Book Club for kids! This is always fun to pick out books we might like to read. This months author is Aliki. At first I thought I did not have any book or have read her books. While traveling this summer I realized that…
When you start learning number soon you start working on skip counting. This can be started as soon as Kindergarten or First Grade. I found that my girls have started to pick it up at different ages. This is a great addition to the skip counting printables on the site. Over the years I have…
Check out this months top posts, all the free printables from July and top referrers. Want to make sure you did not miss a printable this is your chance to see all the free and for sale printables from the month. Here are some of the top referrals to the site! Thanks to all those…
Each month I have a post an Enchanted Homeschooling Mom. This month’s post came about because my older girls were upset that they did not get fun prewriting pages anymore. So be sure to check it out! This is a math and science with a little fine motor all wrapped up it to one! I…
After a month off it is going to be so strange to be back doing things again! I really did enjoy my month off. But I’m back and lots of things are in the works! I have fun things I’ll be doing over the next few weeks and months! My time off was good and…
This month is different these are some of the books we found on vacation. These books were in libraries that we visited or places we went to. It has been a fun month and I hope that you enjoy these books! It is always fun to find new books. Mouseton Abbey: The Cheesy Treasure Hunt…
For this pirate theme, we have been doing the Build Up Summer Learning Week 1 Pirate. We have loved doing pirates this summer and loved several of the books. Pirates are a theme I think do well for boys and girls. The Chalk Pirate Flag Craft is a great addition to the pirate activities on…
Have your kids said the dreaded word yet this summer? You know the one I am thinking of….. I am bored? As a homeschool mom, activities for kids that encourage creativity, learning and skill building are so important to me! Here is a collection of crafts and activities that will get kids using their brain, their…
This summer we are doing some different reading. I’m doing some reading of chapter books for the girls. Plus exploring new chapter books for my daughter who just finished second grade. We all looking at the books and tried to pick out a few different ones to read. There are so many new and different…
Today post is a guest post by Emma from P is for Preschool! I usually try to limit our messy sensory play to outdoors. But with a series of rainy days, we were all getting a little stir crazy from too much in-the-house time. And, you know, desperate times and all that. So I brought…
This week’s theme has been all about Beach! We always enjoy going to the beach in the summer. Beach is a great summer theme for learning. This is an update to the Original Beach Pack from 2 years ago. These Beach printables are to be used with children from 2 to 7. There is a…
It is full-on summer here and we are really enjoying it. We love to go to the beach but can’t always happen. Today we are bringing the beach to us! Check out our fun Beach Sensory Bin! This goes great with the Free Beach Pack. With all our sensory bins or activities I really do…
During the summer a lot of traveling happens. It is hard to take all your materials from home with you. One way that I’m helping my girls keep their learning going is to make them personal word walls! This way we can take them with us. My example here I’m using the Build Up Summer…
Early Reader Books are important to have, but also important is to make sure they are the right reading level for your child. We have several different early reader books that we like at our house. These are ones that I have found work really well. They build good early reading skills. They also are…
Our summers are full of trips out of the house. In the last year my girls have grown to love going to the art museum. This is something that I thought they would have to be much older to really enjoy. I was wrong about that line of thought. You never know how they are…
Happy 4th of July! I hope that you are having a great time! I have mentioned this before but I’m taking part of this month off. I have post coming so enjoy! I hope that you have a wonderful 4th and a great summer! If you are looking for some summer printables check these rounds…
The new Virtual Book Club for Kids author is Giles Andreae! She has great rhyming books. They are lots of fun to read. I’m looking forward to finding new books of hers! I love exploring the authors each month. I find that I look for those books and look for new books by the author….
Check out this months top posts, all the free printables from June and top referrers. Want to make sure you did not miss a printable this is your chance to see all the free and for sale printables from the month. Plus see all of the Build Up Summer Learning that came out! Here are…
If you read my introduction this month, the book we picked would not surprise you. We went with a book about Walden Pond. The great outdoors is something we have talked about a lot these last few weeks. We are getting ready for our summer of enjoying the outdoors as much as we can. The…
Welcome to this months goals. This month will be different from any other month. My goals are changing a lot this month. Mainly because I’ll be taking time off! I have not taken any time off from the blog since I started blogging. To wrap up how some of my goals have been going. It…
This summer learning theme is Build Up. We want to build up the skills during the summer and not let them go. Like other summer learning programs each week of the 5 weeks of Build Up Summer Learning is a different theme. We have week 5 Camping. You will find 5 levels of learning: Tot,…
Each month we look book finds at the library or the store. We always have fun with this. It is something fun to do and we love it. This month is a combination of library and store finds. Don’t be afraid to ask at the store or the library what new books have come in….
The next calendar for those in the Southern Hemisphere is Winter. This is a snowflake themed Calendar Set. I know that winter is just setting in for everyone down south. Since I put the Beach Calendar out and it does not work so well for your winter season. I thought this would be a fun…
This summer learning theme is Build Up. We want to build up the skills during the summer and not let them go. Like other summer learning programs each week of the 5 weeks of Build Up Summer Learning is a different theme. We have week 4 Farm. You will find 5 levels of learning: Tot,…
With the 4th of July coming up we have started a few fun activities. Today’s activity is a star sensory bin. This is something that could be used at any time and would be great for a space theme as well. There are two different types of stars in the bin: Buttons and beads. Sensory…