I’ve never been a huge fan of homework. It is not always that fun to do or have to deal with. I do have a few things that I do to help make homework go smoother at home. Keep in mind these are ideas that have worked for us and maybe they will for you…
Woodland and forest is a favorite theme at our house. We looked through a lot of the books in the house to decide. We happened to come along to a new book while book shopping. It was Daylight Starlight Wildlife. We featured this as one of our books finds for the month. The book explores…
The summer is here soon and it is time for the summer programs! This year Royal Baloo and I decided to update one of the older programs. This was means that we are adding Third Grade to last years Summer Program: Build Up Summer Learning! If you used the program last year you can use…
Every spring we have a fun trip out to look at nature. We have a ton of fun with it. There is so much you can look at. There are so many different changes in spring that make it fun. This makes for fun hands on learning without really knowing they are learning. I thought…
My youngest loves the color coloring pages. After I put them out someone said, my child does not like to use crayons. Well you don’t have to just use crayons or colored pencils with these pages! I thought I would should you 5 different ways that we use them. It is always fun to do…
The next addition to the printables in the learning to read is Digraph 3 Part Cards. Digraphs and blends are something kids learn as they progress in their ability to read. These match up nicely with the other digraph printables on the site. I love the hands on learn you get with 3 Part Cards….
If you have been following me on Instagram you will know that we have been getting TONS of snow and lots of snow days. We have been stuck inside for several days at a time. The snow has been to deep to get out or to cold to play in the snow. To keep us…
We have been doing a lot of exploring with just play and simple plank boards It has been a fun way to do some hands on out of the box learning. For post of this we made some plank board snowflakes! It was fun to see how creative they can be. Plus this is an…
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…
This month the Community helper Pack came out. It has been loads of fun to use. We really loved the books we have been using for it. So we pick a book from that to use for our Poppins Book Nook activity this month. We decided to use the book Whose Tools Are These?: A…
School is on its ways and it is happening fast. I wanted to share some of the printables that I’ve made to use with my girls for school and after school. There are two of them that I have loved having. One is a note to the school for when you are picking them up…
A favorite time for us during the spring is to look outside for bugs! It is a big sign that spring is finally here. For us after a big winter it is always fun to look for those signs of spring. We do this activity for several days not just one, because you never know…
We love the Early Reader Books from BOB Books. There is a wide collection of ages for reading and learning. I am now using them for a third time to help my youngest to help her learn to read. I thought this would be a perfect chance to show you how I use some of…
I love to do hands on learning when we can. One fun way we have been doing this masking tape words. There are variety of things you can do when you make the words on the floor. I just want to show some of them that we do. Not everything has to be about flash…
My youngest Mary has been wanting to learn to write more of her name. She has learned all the letters and she can write them on her own, but she wants them all together. We have made her name with the ABC Sensory Bin and sorted ABC buttons with letters in her name. She knows…
After doing the Gem Wreath the other day. My middle girl really wanted to do something with the gems. I put a simple pattern set together for her to finish. She loved it. What you need: green gem stones, red gem stones and paper so they show up. (This would also be fun on a…
The trip to the car we looked at the clouds. We all liked how different they were. We were running slightly late and needed to be on time. They loved looking at the clouds during the drive. As we were driving we passed a park along the way. It has a bridge over a small…
With all the projects we have done this is one I wanted to be sure and do! It took a while to get to, but here it is: Making Mummies. We did several activities for this but only going to show you what we did most recent! We read the book Mummies Made in Egypt…
Do your kids go to public school? Want them to learn more? Then After School and make it fun! This is a 5 day series that I did on just that. See how I work in learning after school is done. It is not all work books and printables. We have a lot of fun…
Welcome to Day 5 of the How Do I Teach After School! Today I’m going to cover Scheduling the Year. Be sure and read over Day 1: What to Teach, Day 2: School Set Up & Day 3: Finding Materials and Day 4: Setting a Routine. For the last post I want to talk about…
Welcome to Day 4 of the How Do I Teach After School! Today I’m going to cover Setting a Routine. Be sure and read over Day 1: What to Teach, Day 2: School Set Up & Day 3: Finding Materials. Setting a Routine is important right from the start. You can skip a day or…
Welcome to Day 3 of the How Do I Teach After School! Today I’m going to cover finding materials. Be sure and read over Day 1: What to Teach & Day 2: School Set Up . This is often the hardest part of after schooling, because you are not looking for a full curriculum but…
Welcome to Day 2 of the How Do I Teach After School! Today I’m going to cover School Set Up. Be sure and read over Day 1: What To Teach. Does your school set up have to look like a school room completely? No, I don’t think it does. Should you have a few things…
Welcome to Day One of “How Do I Teach After School” this is part of the How Do I Teach series. Something to keep in mind is that I do have a preschooler and Kindergarten that I do schooling with during the day that may or may not be included in the after school session….
I wanted to highlight a few of the mini trips that we take every now and then. Today starts with a trip to the Pet Store. We make this into a learning time. Each of them looks through the various animals. First stop is always the fish tanks. It does not matter what store we…
We are doing some major dinosaur activities this week! It should be a lot of fun for everyone! We are starting off with some simple Matching by type and color and by dinosaur. This is simple and easy to put together and do and takes almost no time at all to put together. This is…
This post is part of the 100 Days of Play! What do you do that is fun with your kids. I love to take time to just join the girls. A lot of time we do crafts where I don’t have pictures of them or blog about them because I’m more apart of it. I…
I love to take the girls to the Butterfly Place. They love it there. I did a trip review of it last year.. We have taken two trips this year already. Both trips we saw and did different things. You never know what you will see on a trip there. Out first trip we saw…
We have seen loves of different flower coloring experiments. Plus a ton of water walking experiments. We thought we would try two different color with flowers. You can see our flower coloring from last year here. What you need: white flower, two colors of dye, two clear glasses, knife (parent use only to cut stems)…
I love to do simple sorting activities with Mary. She does really well with them. When I can use foam stickers of something hands on it makes it more fun. We did two activities with clover foam stickers: Sorting by Size and Sorting by Color. Sorting by Size Mary sorted 3 different sizes of clover…