I have always loved gross motor. It was one of my favorite activities in school and one of my favorite to teach as well. I love finding new ways to get my girls up and moving. I also know that my girls have always loved the book Hop on Pop. I know that many time…
I have always loved reading The Lorax (Classic Seuss). I think we have read this book every year since my girls were litte. Now my girls read it to me and we still have a great time with our picture book and crafts. Today I have a fun process art craft that kids can do….
Every month we always look for fun picture books. They are great to read at any age. Plus you can always learn from them. You will find silly books, history books, wordless books and more. We are always looking for the next favorite book to read or collect at our house. We end up 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: pull, read, right, sing. These are great activities to work on learning sight words. When…
Dot markers have always been a hit at our house. We use them often. I love having different activities to use with the markers. I think my favorite has always been the dot marker words. We have used them a lot. Today I have a fun dot marker set with CVC word family words that…
Counting mats are one of my favorite activities. You can use them for counting numbers and work into more math activities. Today I have a free fishbowl counting mat that is great for PreK and kindergarten. I love that these mats have two hands-on activities for learning to count. The Free Fishbowl Counting Mat Printable…
Easy reader books are fun because kids can have their own book for them to read and color. It gets them excited when they can have a new book. I love it because they soon build up their own library of books that are theirs. Today I have a fun, free, easy reader book about…
We just love turtles at my house. I know my girls would love a turtle is I would let them. We have been working on r-controlled vowels. So I thought we would do a turtle pet theme for a fun activity. Hands-on sorting and recognizing sounds is a fun way to learn. Today’s turtle r-controlled…
Learning addition is always a simple concept but not all kids get the idea. It is great to have different ways to work on learning. I love doing matching activities when I can. We have done so many sorting activities our the years and love them. Today’s printable is a simple visual addition with matching….
I love having different themes to work on skip counting. We are always working on it somewhere. Skip counting is a great way to build up to multiplication and division. I know that some kids learn better with themes than with just plain worksheets. I changing up learning with these mats to see what they…
There are always so many fun themes for kids to use. And I think pets are one of them I have not done. It is a really fun theme that can be used all year long! For my 7 year anniversary on 3 Dinosaurs, I’m doing a fun free my pet themed week. You will…
Dinosaurs have always been a favorite theme for us! We have loved using that themed to learn with. Today I have a fun set of Dinosaur sight word activities for kids to do! This has a collection of cards, puzzles, writing, and find sight words all with dinosaurs. It is a fun set to work…
Not all kids learn the same way. And not all kids just get the idea multiplying and dividing. I know that my girls each had their own way of learning and we used different strategies to with of them. I have one that really is a hands-on learner. She does best when she can see…
I have always loved doing Valentine’s Day activities with my girls. We talk about the themes of the seasons a lot. One of those themes has always been hearts. We have done tons of heart activities and love them. Today I have a fun new heart tree watercolor painting using textures. This was a blast…
Valentine’s is always such a fun theme to learn with. There are so many different activities that you can do with it. We are always working on different ways of learning. I love matching cards. Today I have some free Valentines Multiplication Matching cards that work in multiples of 2. They are a great way…
STEM activities are always fun! Plus I love changing up how we use something. One of our favorite sensory activities to use is water beads. This whole activity came about because one morning my kids asked what else water beads could absorb into them. They asked about oil and I said maybe not. Then they…
We love doing panting activities. We enjoy mixing the oil pastels and watercolors. I love that doing this type of process art each of us can do something different. This is an easy painting activity to do at any time of the year. But with our heart-themed works great for Valentines. We had a blast…
I think that Valentines and hearts is one of my favorite themes. I love using them. Today I have a new set of no-prep math packs just for Valentines that work on addition and subtraction and multiplication and division. It is nice to have something simple and easy to use with kids. I love no-prep…
Placemats are always fun to have! And great to have for a lot of different activities. I got asked if I would make a football-themed set for those that love football. Placemats can be a fun way to keep kids around at the table longer or do while watching a game. They are great to…
Counting books are always loads of fun! And we seem to do lots of counting as the months go on. I love having different themed books kids can use. Today I have a fun Groundhog themed counting book! I know it is fun to change up how we count. And I know that kids love…
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: made, many, off, or. These are great activities to work on learning sight words. When…
There are always so many great activities you can do in the winter. Animals in winter have always been one of my favorite. Today I have two new themed packs. You have a Preschool and Tot Pack and PreK & Kindergarten Pack. Both are full of fun activities with a mix of hands-on and no-prep…
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…