Each week I have been working on my own to do list. I got a request to update the Spring To Do List Printables for summer. I had not really though about doing it. I was happy with what I had. But some times it is nice to have a change. To help with my…
Here is another great summer calendar set. This month theme is the beach! We have a whole month planned to do beach activities. I can’t wait to share them all with you. This beach-themed calendar set is perfect for summer. This Beach Calendar Set will go well with the Free Beach Pack and the Jump…
We have entered to Week 3 of the Build up Summer Learning. This weeks Build up Summer Learning Theme is Robot. You will find 5 levels of learning: Tot, PreK, Kinder, First Grade and Second Grade. This program is designed to help keep the skills that they learned during the school year fresh all summer…
Each month I try and post something that would be fun for that season. I post a lot of gross motor during the fall, winter and spring because we are stuck inside a lot. For the summer I like to have a few different fine motor activities for the girls to do. This post is…
We really love ocean themes at our house. There is something fun about the various books that explore the ocean. Every year we explore more about the ocean during the summer. We really love reading different the ocean books by Eric Carle has. One of our all time favorites is A House for Hermit Crab…
Reading ia a big part of our summer and we like to keeping track of our summer reading. This year we need to keep track of the minutes read for my oldest and books per day for the younger girls. There are two different Free Weekly Summer Reading Charts. These Weekly Summer Reading Charts have…
We have entered to Week 2 of the Build up Summer Learning. This weeks Build up Summer Learning Theme is Pond. You will find 5 levels of learning: Tot, PreK, Kinder, First Grade, and Second Grade. This program is designed to help keep the skills that they learned during the school year fresh all summer…
In each of the BOB Books Printables you will find pages called Read, Write & Stamp. There are several ways to use them. This is the next is the series of how to use early reader printables. At the age of 4 my youngest is not always interested in stamping a word over and over….
In college, I took a class on outdoor literature and loved it. Part of the class was getting out and exploring areas in the great outdoors. There are lots of great books on the outdoors. Which is perfect for this months Poppins Book Nook Theme: The Great Outdoors. In the class I learned lots of…
Summer is here and the girls are slightly older and we are looking at some different things for our bucket lists this year. Every year we have been filling out the Blank Summer Bucket Lists. We will use those but we wanted to make a list of 10 things we wanted to do as a…
Eric Carle has to be one of my favorite children’s authors to read. We can read his books over and over and enjoy them every time. Do you have a favorite Eric Carle book? The girls each have a favorite book. For about 2 years I read Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?…
Check out this months top posts, all the free printables from May 2014 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…
Do you make goals each month? A group of bloggers are doing just that. Be sure to check out all the goals that everyone is doing. This is a good way to think about things. I’m working on three different areas: blog, family and personal. You will see some the same each month and some…
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 start today with Week 1 Pirate. You will find 5 levels of…
Every month we look for different books. We always find new books each month. This months books are some fun ones, there is a wordless book, mommy book, bedtime and book with just 2 words. These were all library finds! I always encourage people to use the library! We love the library and I think…
Each month there is a free printable from me at FreeHomeschoolDeals.com! This months is a Free Bug Number Writing Activity! We have been having lots of bug fun this month. We have also been working on numbers and writing numbers. This was a fun addition to the Free Bug Pack. You are going to find…
Folktales are a lot of fun to learn about. There are so many to pick from. My girls really liked the Little Red Hen. Our activity this month for Poppins Book Nook was for this folktale. What I like about the story of the Little Red Hen is that you learn that you have to…
If you have been following me for a while you know that each month lately I’ve been doing a gross motor post on Enchanted Homeschooling Mom. This month has to be my favorite post that I have done. I have put some extra help into to each part. I hope that you really enjoy it….
People have asked to make the ABC and Number cards a single download to make it easier. I have put the collection of ABC and Number Cards up for sale. These are the collection of the Number and ABC Cards. I put them all together in a single collection available at both of my store….
In each of the BOB Books Printables is a section for writing sentences with the words. This is not always something you want to have them do at a young age. Today I’m going to show you an alternative to writing, and still using this early reading printable with your child. The early reading printables…
As we head into summer I thought a set of Free Ocean Calendar Cards would be fun to have. Ocean is a great theme to study for summer as well. This Ocean Calendar Set will also go well with the Ocean Pack, Ocean Pack Update and the Jump In to Summer Learning: Week 2 Ocean….
Word path or mazes are a fun way to learn and read words. You can do these early reader printables many different ways. They are among my favorite early reader printables. I want to show you a few ways that we use these printables. One again we are using the printables from Early Reader Printables:…
It is time for the Virtual Book Club again. This time we have a fun green yarn sheep craft to go with the book we picked for Mem Fox. This is a fun hands on craft that goes really well with the book. It was hard to pick just one book for this author! We…
I hear these words often, “your house always looks so nice”. Well, if you knew me you would never say that. There is a lot that happens or does not happen when you blog. If you are a blogger some things are very nicely staged that way. Today for Mother’s Day a few bloggers are…
The latest in the Dot Marker Printables is Bugs! This is a great addition to the Free Bug Pack. Dot markers are a fun way to learn and get some fine motor activities as well. This is a new addition to the Bug printables on 3 Dinosaurs. I love the variety that dot markers give…
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…
The blossoms on the trees is one of my favorite parts of spring. The girls and I made some fun Spring Blossoms to hang in our windows at home. Before we started this activity we read a few books one of which was Seasons by Anne Crausaz. I just love to read that book. I…
Folktales are a this months Poppins Book Nook Theme. I really like how many different Folktales there are. Folktales are also hard to distinguish from fairy tales. It is a story passed down and often has a moral to the story. There is often no fairies or magic in them. It is also an oral…
This months Virtual Book Clubs Author is Mem Fox. She has fun and creative books! When pulled out my sheet to look at the author for this month I did not recognize the name at all. I was surprised that I did have one of her books. It is Time for Bed, which we read…