What you still read picture books to your girls? But your oldest is in 5th grade now! Yes, we all read picture books. A lot of picture books are perfect for older kids. Plus even older children can learn from the stories. There are many projects you can do with a book beyond the preschool…
Learning letters can be hard at times. But when you have fun activities for each letter if can make learning fun. I love how flexible you can be with these activities in the Alphabet Stomping Phonics. The fourteenth pack is out for the Alphabet Stomping Phonics PreK-Kinder Pack. This is a series and one letter…
When you do something for a whole month, you learn something about yourself. It does not matter if it is right or wrong you do learn something. It is one reason why I set goals every month. I just finished up 31 days of Free Prinables. I learned a lot about other people and me…
There are so many different ways to work on multiplication and it often seems overwhelming learning them. One way to work on this is to show how addition and multiplication work together. I know that when I’ve been relearning the new systems from the school, it was not easy. But I do enjoy seeing that…
It seems some days that we are always working on some math fact work. I like that these free winter spinning math printables help kids work on their math facts and have fun. Plus I love that I can change these up as the seasons or favorite theme change. Each of these mats is made…
Thanksgiving is a great time of year to reflect on many different things. I love this time of year, and so does Royal Baloo. There are so many things to learn about Thanksgiving. This 31 days has been so much fun. Here are all Thanksgiving printables from the week PLUS all our other Thanksgiving printables!…
Learning addition is sometimes easier than subtraction. Subtraction or take away as my girls always refer to is now always easy to remember. But is it something you work on. Today we have some free winter themed subtraction clip cards. I have found that clip cards a fun for kids and they love using them….
Once you progress from simple counting, you head to addition and subtraction. Some kids get the idea right away, and others don’t. These free Thanksgiving addition and subtraction mats give kids a hands-on way to work on their math. I always want to change up our learning. These mats have been helpful for my youngest…
Thanksgiving is always a fun theme to create printables around. There are many different parts of the story we can learn. The first Thanksgiving good learning tool for younger kids. The pilgrims and natives met to feast on the harvest of the summer. I made these free thanksgiving counting mats reenact that time. Kids love…
I always find it frustrating when I have something I want to work on but can’t always find the right sheet for it. We have been doing a lot of digraphs over the last few weeks and changing things up make it fun! Everyone loves to have something for their current level of learning. The…
After having so much fun with the coloring pages for the Thanksgiving ABCs. We wanted to do more activities like it. I thought it would be fun to do some CVC Word Family Activities. There are never enough activities for kids to do learning or reviewing word families. No prep activities have been loads of…
There are so many times I’m busy doing something and I just want something I can print and just use. I love hands-on, but no prep is nice as well. As we get closer to certain holidays, there are loads of letters that we can work on. For Thanksgiving, we have done a lot of…
Some years back I had a conversation that went something like the following: My Friend: “My kids just got their Halloween costumes! We are so excited about going out. What are you kids going to be?” Me: “We have not got our costumes yet.” My Friend: “What? They will all be gone soon!” Me: “Well…
Math is always one of those activities I’m always trying to vary for my girls. When I find something they like, I’ll use it several different ways. Easy and no prep activities work nicely when I’m in a hurry. I love to change up the themes. When they love the Halloween set, I thought it…
Over the last few years, I have learned that my girls love calendars. Even though my girls are older they still love having their themed calendars. It is one reason I update the seasonal ones for each year. For November we have the free Thanksgiving calendar set. Thanksgiving is a great time of the year….
Every day we are doing some writing. It could be a journal, practicing our sight words or vocabulary words. There is never a time that all three of my girls are not writing. I love that themed paper can change up the everyday activity and make it fun. This transportation themed writing paper is great…
While we were traveling this summer we stopped a lot of different places to eat. Because of my oldest having celiac, we ate at a lot of the same places. So they tend to get bored of having the same coloring mats. I started making fun ones for them to do. It changes it up…
One thing I love about the summer is the summer reading that our library has. It is fun, and my girls have just loved doing it. Now that we are in school and they are reading the same stuff they read during the summer but always seems to be twice as hard to get them…
If you have not guessed by now, I LOVE bookmarks. They are fun to have and use, and we are always looking them. I also love to create themed that my girls want to use as well. My youngest is very much into all things transportation. She loves playing with cars and planes. We are…
Counting can be a massive struggle with some kids. You never know what will just click with a child and get them to read. I love counting mats because they do just that. I put a lot of the counting mats into the printable packs. But every now and then it is nice to have…
There can be huge struggles to get my youngest to do any type reading. It took a long time to realize that giving her a book in her favorite theme helps. But a transportation easy reader is something she just loves! We always want kids to read various books to build their learning. I like…
Math can be such a hard thing to work on. It is not always fun to work on it. Clip cards can really help with it. Plus my youngest pointed out that I’ve not made clip cards for her! So today we have some fun transportation themed addition clip cards. Plus they are Free! Clip…
Writing can be a challenge for kids, but writing on themed paper can make it loads of fun! I’m always working on different ways to get the creative writing in and the practice of writing different words for my girls. Since my girls love dinosaurs and I’m not sure how in the last few years…
I’m always looking for fun ways for my girls to burn off their energy when it gets colder outside. We do lots of gross motor with picture books. One of our favorite gross motors that we did over the summer was with Goldilocks and the Three Dinosaurs. We had so much fun with that book;…
One of the dreaded things in our house is practicing multiplication math facts! My girls have gone out of their way to avoid having to do them. So I’m always looking for something fun to do them. The free dinosaur themed clip cards are a great way for kids to practice and get some fine…
This is the tenth set in the Romping & Roaring Color Word Packs. The word color word pack is black. Each of these packs are full of ways that kids can work on their color words. I put some of our favorite activities into these packs. This pack is the 10th of 11 color word…
Kids are always looking for information on their favorite subjects! One subject we do a lot with is DINOSAURS. I’m always shocked at how much they want to learn. Plus giving them fun ways to learn the information is nice as well! We have been in love with bookmarks at our house! It seems I’m…
Over the years, I have learned that kids just LOVE to say the dinosaur names. Don’t think they can’t say the long words it is a big mistake. My oldest learned to speak better by saying them! Today is a fun, easy reader book with a dinosaur theme. The Free Dinosaur Easy Reader Book is…
Kids always need tons of practice when learning their math facts. I’m always looking for fun ideas and sometimes taking something we loved like the apple set. Then change it to a favorite theme of Dinosaurs! Yes, I have three girls that love dinosaurs. These mats are fun to use plus they make learning as…
If you had not guessed, dinosaurs are a HUGE thing in our house. We have more dinosaurs than we do other things. I’m always looking for ways to include their favorite things in our learning. Since we have been loving counting mats, I thought I would add a few more! The fun part about these…