We are in full swing with summer reading here! That means almost daily trips to the library for books and fun! I love our local library and all they offer for the summer. Plus reading helps prevent the summer slide! It is a great way to get kids to keep up their reading skills by…
Summer is in full swing and this is a great series for those that want to do a little activity but don’t want to spend tons of time prepping activities. This is why Royal Baloo and I make the summer programs. Swing Into Summer Learning is a great no-prep printable for kids to use! We…
I saw all the signs but I listened to the advice and made up excuses along the way ignoring the oncoming ripples. “Oh, she will grow out of this phase!” – I just need to wait and it will go away. “They all catch up so don’t worry about it.” – I won’t worry about…
The sixth free pack is out today in the Alphabet Stomping Phonics Tot-Preschool Pack. Since the Tot-Preschool are different packs from the PreK-Kinder packs they come out on a different day. Today’s letter is F. The sets are coming out every 2 weeks. This set works wonderfully with the Romping & Roaring ABC packs. The…
Summer is always a busy time and keeping kids learning while saving time is hard. This is why Royal Baloo and I make the summer programs. Swing Into Summer Learning is a great no-prep printable for kids to use! We are in week 4 of the series. This week’s theme is Bugs! It has 7…
Summer is one of those times where writing is not done as much and I like to find ways to keep them thinking. That is why we have some ocean themed writing prompts. The idea behind these is to give them something to think about for their writing this summer. Ocean animals are a great…
The sixth pack is out for the Alphabet Stomping Phonics PreK-Kinder Pack. These are really fun sets for kids to work on their phonics sounds. Each set is based on one letter. You have so many fun activities wrapped up in one bundle. This has to be one of my favorite sets that I have…
Messy, messy sensory is great fun by mixing two of our favorite sensory play together: water beads and shaving cream! My girls just love having sensory bins. We always have a sensory bin up to play in. After the last water bead sensory bin, I took the beads and added it to shaving cream to…
One part of the traveling during the summer I dread is eating out. You never know what the places will have for the kids or if they don’t have activities. This summer we are going to be prepared for our eating out! I’m making several sets of themed placemats! We are starting with an ocean…
I know as a parent it really is horrible to find something quick and easy to prevent the summer slide. This is why Royal Baloo and I make the summer programs. Swing Into Summer Learning is a great no-prep printable for kids to use! We are in week 3 of the series. This week’s theme…
This is the sixth set in the Romping & Roaring Color Word Packs. The word color word pack is purple. 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 6th of 11 color word…
The first summer with no summer school? I was panicking. Both the teachers and I knew my oldest needed to be reviewing and relearned materials from the school year. I took several deep breaths and started working on a basic plan for the summer. I made several themed sets and worked on a small summer…
The fifth free pack is out today in the Alphabet Stomping Phonics Tot-Preschool Pack. Since the Tot-Preschool are different packs from the PreK-Kinder packs they come out on a different day. Today’s letter is E. The sets are coming out every 2 weeks. This set works wonderfully with the Romping & Roaring ABC packs. The…
The summer slide sucks and this was made to help prevent the summer slide! The Swing Into Summer Learning was made to help your just print and use. We are in week 2 of the series. This week’s theme is Superhero! It has 7 levels of learning: Tot, PreK, Kinder, First Grade, Second Grade, Third…
If you know me I LOVE themed printables! I love changing up what we do during the summer. This summer we are using some easy no-prep themed printables to go with a theme for the month. We are starting with a favorite theme at our house OCEAN! These are some fun Numbers and Math printables…
The fifth pack is out for the Alphabet Stomping Phonics PreK-Kinder Pack. These are really fun sets for kids to work on their phonics sounds. Each set is based on one letter. This is a series and one letter in the bundle is coming out every two weeks. This week’s letter is E! You are…
This month’s Virtual Book Club book is The Rainbow Fish. It is a favorite at our house. We have loved this book for a long time. One part I like about the Virtual Book Club is that I’m challenged to come up with something new each month for a book that we know or love….
Goals have been huge for me over the last few years. Every time I post a goal, I learn more about what I need to get that goal done. Some of my goals are daily, weekly and monthly. They each help me make my feel better about myself when I get them done. As we…
Every month we love looking for new books. There are always books coming out and it is fun to read them. We go to the library every week. It helps us look for different books or to have books pointed out to us as well. It has been tons of fun just looking for the…
Our fourth Summer Program is here! This year’s program is called Swing Into Summer Learning! We want to take a swing at our skills during the summer and not let them go. Like two programs each week of the 5 weeks of Swing Into Summer Learning has a different theme. We start today with Week…
Ocean is a favorite theme for us! The ocean calendar set is being updated again with the new pages for 2016. I know that we just love using these pages and they are tons of fun for kids. This set also goes nicely with the Ocean Pack. It is fun and easy to use. There…
This is Set 10 of 11 in the Romping & Roaring First Grade Sight Words Packs. This month Romping & Roaring First Grade Sight Words: Then, Think, Walk, Were. I love using these sets with my girls. It gives me ten different pages that I can use with them. I can pull out the page…
As the years have come and gone we have loads of books that we have just loved to read. But one set of books my girls have all liked are the Elephant and Piggie Books by Mo Willems! Each of my girls has just LOVED these books. They have been fun to look for as…
The fourth free pack is out today in the Alphabet Stomping Phonics Tot-Preschool Pack. Since the Tot-Preschool are different packs from the PreK-Kinder packs they come out on a different day. Today’s letter is D. The sets are coming out every 2 weeks. This set works wonderfully with the Romping & Roaring ABC packs. The…
We have been working various math facts with my youngest. She is just starting some simple math activities. We have been working her addition many different ways. Today, I wanted to show you one hands-on way that we have been using the addition flashcards and erasers. My girls have loved doing this type of math….
An email recently asked me about the book finds that I do every month. They asked if we went to the library every week. I said Yes, we go to the library every week! We don’t miss a week and sometimes we go twice a week. I was asked why we go. We check out…
Bookmarks have been really huge at our house the last little while. They are easy to look at the smaller than some wall cards. Plus they are easy to store on a ring. Fractions can be a hard idea to get at first. When you have a visual to look at it can help kids…
My girls just love it when we change up an activity that we do. At our house, we try and use something more than just one way! Today is a twist on something we have done many times. We have loved the Melissa & Doug Textured Stencils – Insects. They make such pictures. Plus we…
Flower crafts are always a big hit at our house. We love making and creating with them. We did a slight change from the Flower Wreath that we did two years ago. We took the felt buttons from our Flower Button Sensory Bin and made a wreath with them. This was a great way to…
We just love the playdough mats with tracing at our house. These have been a HUGE hit over the last year. Today we have the number words playdough mats with tracing. This is such an easy way to work on the words. We have loved having the CVC Word family and the sight words. Kids…