We love picture books and still read them. Why do we? Because you can still learn from a picture book for years beyond preschool and kindergarten. This months collection of books is from our library. We always visit the library at least once a week. Sometimes twice a week. I encourage my girls to read…
Winter is a great time to explore different themes. We have always loved looking for animals and animal tracks in winter. It is also fun to talk about which animals are around in winter and which are not. I love using sensory bins to explore new things. We always have a sensory bin around. Yes,…
We have always loved animals. I’m always looking for fun new animals ideas that we can do. I also love that there are so many animals to pick from. Today, I have a winter themed animal counting book. I know that we love the easy reader books and counting is always one of those skills…
There are many different parts to learning to read. And vowel combinations are one way you work on these. There are two types of vowel combinations: vowel teams and diphthongs. I know that they can be tricky and not always fun to learn. Today’s free Winter Fox Vowel Team & Diphthong Matching is a great…
Winter is a fun time and so many great themes. I love that you can follow animal tracks in the snow! We love to do that. I put animals tracks and some skip counting to add some fun to our learning. These free winter woodland skip counting tracks are a fun way to work skip…
I love clip cards and use them often for learning. I wanted to have a set that would make a good learning center for multiplication. I know that not all kids learn the same way. Each child needs something different. These are great for the hands-on learners that want something different. Plus this printable is…
Snowmen are just apart of winter. I love that there are many different ways to make them. Normally, we have tons of snow and are our building snowmen all the time outside. But this year there has not been as much and my girls really wanted to build a snowman. So we came up with…
Playdough mats have always been one of our favorite ways to do hands-on learning. They work on so many skills while you use them. Today I have some blends playdough mats that focus on the two letters of some beginning sound blends. These are fun and great for kids just starting out learning about the…
You have these great free ABC Wall Cards. They show the letters with fun pictures and words for each letter. They make a great way to display the letters on the wall. I have always loved wall cards. The alphabet wall cards are great to have to help to learn. Plus can be used to…
Winter has always been a favorite time for me. I just love all the winter themes and sports. One of our favorite themes has been snowmen for a very long time. We are always using a snowman theme and have a blast when we do. There are so many things you can do with a…
Easy reader books have to be one of my favorite things! We have always loved using them. They are a fun way to learn new things or just work on basic reading. Snowmen have always been a favorite theme for the winter for us. I love that you can make and have fun with this….
There are so many ways to work on learning your ABC, numbers, and shapes. I know that I’m always asked for fun new to help kids with this. I love things that have some extra element to them so this fun trace, color, and write came about. This is one of our favorite activities in…
Winter is always such fun to do activities for. There are so many great winter themes. We have been enjoying doing our fun winter activities. It has not been as snowy for us this year. We have been having fun doing snow painting and craft projects. It is fun to bring winter inside when you…
I love wall cards for learning. They are easy to display and great for kids to learn with. Colors are always fun for kids. They are one thing we learn a lot with during preschool and kindergarten. They are great to hang on the wall and use as help for kids. Today I have some…
There is a not a week that goes by that we are not at a library or a bookstore looking for books of all kinds. We still love picture books after all these years. They are fun to read and loads of fun for kids of all ages. Today I have a collection of all…
Not all kids learn at the same level or the same way. Addition and subtraction are just one case for this. There are some kids that struggle with the idea of learning place value with the addition and subtraction. Today I have some fun mats and these show you how to work addition and subtraction…
Counting is one of those fun skills that young kids are working on. It is a fun and a great way for them to learn numbers. I like to put counting together and make little books that they can go with. It is winter and I just love snowflakes. They are always fun. When I…
Every month it is a blast looking for new picture books. Yes, all of us look for them even my oldest who is 13 now. We look at the library and the bookstores to see what fun new books we will find. We always have books on loan from the library that are picture books….
Ten frames are always fun to use. I love how easy they are to work on counting or math. These free New Years Ten Frame work great for one to one correspondence and are good for a little fine motor work. The cards are a fun, hands-on number activity and a lot of kids love….
Fireworks are always a big of many celebrations. We always love to watch the ones go off at the start of the New Year! They are always so bright in the sky and full of color and wonder. I love to look at them as they go off. Today we have a fun watercolor &…
I love having easy reader books. They are always fun for kids to have. I’m always looking for new ways to use our books. Today I have a fun New Year’s Eve themed easy reader books. Easy reader books are fun because they work in simple sentences that kids can read over and over. They…
Graphing is always a fun skill for kids to work on. I get asked for loads of different types of activities and graphing has been one of them. Today I have a free New Years theme roll & graph. The set has graphing or tracing number options a great way to work on math with…
We have the next set of the free Romping & Roaring Second grade Sight Word Packs out! Once of a month, four words from the Romping & Roaring Second Grade Sight Word Packs come out free. This month’s words are: gave, goes, green, its. These are great activities to work on learning sight words. When…
These fun free number dot marker printables are a great way for kids to learn their numbers from 1 to 20. Plus they do it while having some fun fine motor work. From the start, my girls always love dot markers. They are such a great way for kids to learn. I love that they…
We love doing watercolor paintings. I’m always looking for something different and fun to do them. Christmas it a favorite time of year for us. We are always doing crafts and activities. Today I have out watercolor Christmas Trees! These were fun to make and one that many can do and enjoy. It is a…
At some point and time, we always go from just writing what the clock says to how much time passed from a start point or an endpoint. This can be a real struggle for some kids. I know that my girls have been hit or miss about the idea. I always like to have something…
Sensory play has always been a part of what we do at our house. I always have a sensory bin or gross motor activity they can do based on their needs of the day. And sensory bins are a great way to calm down after a busy day stressful day or at a time when…
I love seasonal changes and it is nice to mix things up as well. I have this fun last minute array set for Christmas! It is all about reindeers! I like having something we use a change a part of it. Today I have some reindeer array clip cards. It takes something we do a…
One of our favorite themes for Christmas time has always been the gingerbread man! They are fun to decorate and plus a great story to go with them. Today, I’ve added two new sequencing sets to our winter bundle for Making a Gingerbread Man and The Gingerbread Man Story. Two fun ways to explore these…
Christmas is our favorite time of the year. We are always doing activities for it. This year we are doing another book count down. We have been doing a craft with a lot of our books. Every day we are picking out a new book to read and trying to match up crafts with the…