Reading Fun in the Sun is the combined work of Royal Baloo and 3 Dinosaurs. It will have a collection of 8 Units for the summer. It has over 60 pages total activities for Sight Words, Word Blends, Digraphs, & Dipthongs for free. What will I find in Unit 1? Sight Words: after, his, may,…
The book finds this month all came from the library. I always try and look and ask them about new books when they come in. This month we have dinosaurs, seasonal books and a few others that were fun. Dinosaur Pet by Neil Sedaka and Marc Sedaka is a great story about a boy and…
Summer is almost here! Now is the time to get ready for summer reading. This summer I have challenged my girls to read 100 different books. I have made these printables to help mark their progress. For every 10 books we read we plan on doing one Observation. What is in the Summer Reading Charts…
Model Magic happens to be a favorite craft for us. And I love when you can read a book and do a craft activity with it! We love dinosaurs so this is our dinosaur book and craft that we did with a fun book. We read the book Dinosaur Pet. We listened to the CD…
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Over the last few days we have taken a look at nature. We all took an early morning walk and saw everything that had recently bloomed. You could still see the dew on the grass… …which everyone had to touch… …and touch again to see if they could make a drip of water stay on…
On Facebook I have a poll to see which small printable pack I should work on next. The options are: BBQ Pack, Ocean Pack, Bug Pack, Pete the Cat Pack, or Birds Pack. Check here for the Poll. Please take the time to vote. All five will be made eventually. This will let me know…
A Free Dinosaur-themed printable pack! The dinosaur pack is so much fun to use. You have a mix of hands-on and low-prep printables for kids to use. You can learn dinosaur names, sizes, patterns, matching, colors, numbers 1 to 15, beginning sounds, and more. Plus you have a preschool and tot dinosaur pack and a…
My girls love reading books, but often struggle with words they might not know. I made these Early Reader Paper Plates for a lot of their favorite books. It is an easy early reading practice that you can use. These are fun to see how your child is reading and see where they need help….
Looking for shapes around a room in a classic way to do a hands on learning with shapes. This gives you some hands on learning while in your house. This square search is easy to do and can be changed up for any shape that you might need. The set up for this activity is…
Looking for a way to work on alternating on the stairs. This is a fun way to do it and get them engaged in what they are doing. Plus you get a little gross motor while doing it. What you need: Stairs, different colored socks and toys or items that match the color of the…
We have been working on patterns. This week we used socks. Rose and Amelia have been putting on a different socks each day and making patterns out of them. This is also a great activity to do with the book Fox in Socks. They put the socks on and then decide what the pattern will…
Flower have always been one of our favorite crafts and activities to do for spring. When you add a little change in how you paint it can be fun. By using straws you work on breath control while painting fun flowers. It gives kids a different way to paint instead of the same old way…
Hermit crabs have been one of our favorite ocean animals for a long time. We love reading about them and learning with them. The Hermit Crab Pack is a great pack to learn about other ocean animals that interact with hermit crabs. The Hermit Crab Pack is a great addition to the ocean printables and…
Sight Word Paths More Sight Word Paths are now done. My girls are using these with You Can Read program by 1+1+1=1. The new paths are “we, do, to”, “for, did, are, not”, “jump, look, help”, “no, am, so, he”, “where, funny, little, pretty” and “make, away, this.” There are lots of ways to use…
Check out this fun activity of painting butterflies and our trip to see real a Butterfly Place mentioned in the book. We read the book From Caterpillar to Butterfly. Then we took a trip to The Butterfly Place. We also read the book again when we got home and reviewed what we saw while we…
More Word Family Cards and Writing Sheets. Flash cards for the words and practice writing sheets. The next sets finished are “-ad”, “-ap”, “-ed”, and “-et”. Download the Word Family Cards More will be coming soon. Cassie – 3Dinosaurs.com
In April we started the 30 Days of Moving with Kids. It has been so much fun for the girls and I! We did a lot of walking outside. We went to parks. We did some gross motor inside: rolling and jumping like frogs. So far we plan to keep going with this challenge. The…
Using unique paint brushes is a fun way to do art. See how we reused our flowers that we colored. Most children love to paint and giving them something new to paint with is always fun. We colored some flower and before the flowers were thrown away we reused them for another project. I try…
Coloring flowers is an easy science project that everyone can do almost anywhere. We cut up 4 stems of mums. The girls each picked a color. Amelia picked red. Mary picked yellow. Rose picked green. We kept one set white to compare later. After a few hours we checked and saw some changes already. The…
The beach has great themes like sand, shells, crabs, ocean waves, sandcastles, and more. I could go out about how many fun things there are but you will find all these in this fun free beach pack! The beach pack was made to work with tot, preschool, prek, and kindergarten age kids. You can find…
Easy to use math and ABC printables. These are print and use printables. There are several different types of each printable. ABC Matching & Missing Activities The abc printables are matching printables and missing. These activities are great for filling in the missing letters and matching on a single page. A lot of the what…
Name: Ecotarium Location: Worcester, Massachusetts Website: http://www.ecotarium.org/ Length of stay: 90 minutes The Ecotarium is one of the girls’ favorite places to visit. We go there often. The outside is full of places to explore. There are a lots of animals to see while you visit. Animals The eagles there are some of the girls…
Here are some great books we have been reading. Some we have bought, but you never know what you can find at the library! The books from this month have the following themes: spring, math and abcs. Every month the girls look for new books. The books can be different than what we normally look…
I want to thank everyone that joined me in April 2012 and sent traffic my way. These are in no specific order. Money Saving Mommy Pinterest (Thanks to everyone that pinned something!) No Time for Flash Cards Oopsey Daisy Totally Tots Living Life Intentionally Enchanted Homeschooling Mom Facebook Some new things during the month were:…
The girls like music of all kinds. It is something we have playing in the house often. We have started listening to The Piano Guys on You Tube. Each of them have a favorite song. They will gather around the computer and watch a new video and then dance to the video. Here are some…
The Bear Snores On Pack is here! If you kids love this story this is a great pack to go with it! It has the animals from the story that you can use to help learn and write their names. I love having book related packs! The Bear Snores On Pack is a great addition…
Name: Longfellows Wayside Inn: Grist Mill Location: Sudbury, MA Website: http://www.wayside.org/guide/grist+mill Length of Stay: 45 minutes The Grist Mill is open from April to November. It is a great stop to see the workings of an historic water mill. Outside you can look around and see the waterwheel and the small pond and stream that…
The Little Red Hen is a class folktale story. It is one that is fun to read and learn from. We read the book and learned about making bread and the steps that we did. We read The Little Red Hen (Little Golden Book) and then made bread. Amelia put the ingredients in the mixer….
Word Family Cards More Word Family Cards and Writing Sheets. Flash cards for the words and practice writing sheets. The next sets finished are “-ip”, “-ig”, “-ot”, and “-it”. Download the Word Family Cards Word Family Playdough Mats There are new Word Family playdough mats now available: -ap & -ad Download the Word Family Playdough…