There are several different calendar themes on the site. I often get asked to make the cards smaller for people that don’t have a big calendar theme board. I don’t always have the time to make a smaller set. I thought I would take a few minutes and show you how to print the cards…
With Thanksgiving coming up we have been doing a few counting activities for it. We have doing lots of fun turkey activities. Today we did some fine motor and counting. This was fun and got her thinking. Turkeys are always a popular activity at this time. This ties in perfectly to that theme. This is…
This is a theme I have been looking forward to. The girls love to cook with me and we often switch up who gets to cook breakfast with me. To the kitchen can mean so many different things. It can mean baking, cooking or dishes. This will be a great theme to explore with your…
I love this months author Eric Litwin is a favorite at our house. We just love the first three Pete the Cat books and we read them often. I think they are some of the most read books at our house. It did the Pete the Cat themed pack because they loved it so much….
I took a lot of relaxing time last month and did not push anything and over do it. I pushed projects back and took a small break from taking on to many things. I said no to a lot of projects I really wanted to do but knew I would not be able to. Some…
There are a LOT of books we found this month. We got out more this month than we did in September and that makes a huge difference for us. A lot of these are books we collected but there are some from the library as well. I love checking the library for books each week….
Learning about stars and planets is always a lot of fun. It is fun to learn about space and the things that are out there. For the Poppins Book Nook, we did some study of the stars. There are many different starts and things we can learn about them. There so many different parts of…
Learning the CVC word family words is always fun to do. There are many different ways to work with them. This Halloween time we have been using some fun foam bats to make our CVC word family words. This is fun for the kids and is a great review of of the words for older…
This is the 1,000 post on 3 Dinosaurs for that, I made this special activity for number place value up to 1,000. This is a great thing to help learn your number place values. There are 2 versions of the number place value for different levels of writing and learning. This is fun hands-on learning…
The next calendar theme is Planets. This is something we are going to be studying at the start of November so I thought it would be fun to have a calendar to go with our Space theme. This also goes nicely with the Space Pack that is on the site. I am using different images…
We have been having fun exploring some fine motor activities with Halloween themed cookie cutters! This is tons of fun to explore the colors and how creative you kids can be exploring different combination of items to make the picture in the cookie cutter. This activity works in creative and fine motor at the same…
Halloween has so many different things you can explore. This Eye Ball Sensory Bin was lots of fun to explore different weights. There were different eyeballs that were very light to hold and the rock was very heavy compared to the erasers. This was also great to look at the shapes of the eyes ball…
The next calendar update is the Thanksgiving Calendar Set. The calendar update is for the 2014 year. We had a lot of fun with that last year. Thanksgiving is a great time of year and these calendar cards make it a little more fun. There are always many ways to use the calendar cards. Don’t…
I really do love the nursery rhymes and the Mother Goose ones are always so much fun! I thought it would be fun to start putting out mini pack for a few of these! Nursery rhymes are one of the easier things to do with kids. They are easy to memorize and fun to repeat…
We have been exploring the colors of red, yellow and orange this fall. One thing we did during this time was a fun water bead sensory bin gem hunt! This is a fun activity for looking for colored glass gems in clear water beads. This was tons of sensory filled fun. This is great to…
We are always looking for new ways to put sensory and counting together. This is a fun activity that provided fun sensory, fine motor and counting. We stamped numbers and counted pumpkins to match. This activity could easy be switched up for non-seasonal items in the sand. It is fun and easy to set up…
Kids have been in school for a while and it is getting close to parent teacher conferences. Now it is a great time to start thinking about writing a thank you note for the teacher. They do a lot to help our kids learn. I had someone ask for a cute thank you note and…
It is time for the Pumpkin Pack: Math Activities! I thought after the language we should have some new math as well. Pumpkins are by far our favorite theme for the fall. This update is going to add some fun pumpkin math activities. The Pumpkin Math Pack was made for kids 4 to 10. This…
We just love Room on the Broom. It is a great book to read and fun as well. You can see great friends and how everyone helps out the witch. We love to read it over and over. It is a book we keep out all year round and not just for Halloween. Counting Ingredients…
Skip counting can be made a lot of fun. We love doing our skip counting activities and this was a fun way to add more hands-on activities with skip counting. You can put the numbers in order and working on skip counting patterns and more! We have included links to some of the products and…
This months Poppins Book Nook theme is Beyond Our Planet. Space is a big theme at our house. We are always talking about the stars and the planets. There are so many fun and exciting books about space. I’m sure we will have fun picking out a few of the books that we will like…
Here is a Pumpkin Activities pack update with lots of language activities. The Pumpkin Pack was one of our favorite packs last year, because of that it is getting an update this year! The Pumpkin Language Pack was made for kids 4 to 10. This was made to go with the books: How Big Could…
This months Virtual Book Club for Kids Author is Julia Donaldson. We have some favorite books by her. We did her for the vitrual book club a while back. We read The Snail and the Whale and really enjoyed it. There are a wide range of books that she has. We really enjoyed the last…
Today I’m happy to be doing the Letter A for the 31 Days of ABCs. Last year I did the letter P. We had so much fun. I thought I would share a few of the ways we did our letter A activities. There are so many different activities that you can do for the…
September was a month of ups and downs. It was a very frustrating month for many reasons. The biggest reason was my health. It made me take a lot more time off than I really wanted to do. So October is going to be about building back up and moving forward and not looking back….
BOB Books makes learning to read fun. This week we have another set of early reading printables to use with your kids. We are still in the BOB Books Rhyming Words book 7 & 8 this time. These books are easy to use and learn some great CVC and CCVC word family words. The next…
This months theme was a lot of fun for the girls we read several different books for the wild west theme. We read several books for this months theme. It was fun to find new books every time we went to the library. It was fun to learn about the different native nations, the cowboys,…
We love looking for new books. This month all the books but one were a library find for us. I love using the library and exploring all that we can find there. I’m never disappointed when we go looking for books. This month has books with no words, fables, animals, dragons, fall and more. You…
We have been working on a lot of skip counting to help get ready for lots of multiplication and division. We were using the earlier skip counting printables to help with it. It was time for a simple and easy to use skip counting printable that we could keep on our portable learning walls. Now…
BOB Books makes learning to read fun. This week we have another set of early reading printables to use with your kids. We are still in the BOB Books Rhyming Words book 7 & 8 this time. These books are easy to use and learn some great CVC and CCVC word family words. The next…