We had a had time picking a book for this month’s book club. The girls and I read and watched several of the movies. We love the book Where the Wild Things Are and it was a fun movie and a fun book! We finally picked Where the Wild Things Are for the Books that…
August’s book finds were tons of fun to read. We had a lot of fun reading the different books. This month’s collection of books finds comes from the library, museums, and the bookstore. I’m always looking for books for the girls to read. I enjoy reading them as well. In is great for learning about…
The next set of the Romping & Roaring Sight Word Sets is out! This time we are at First Grade! I’ve had several requests when this set would be out. I’m very excited to say that it is finished! This is the third set of Romping & Roaring Sight Word sets. This is just like…
We are enjoying our last week of summer break. We had plans to go to the beach, but they did not happen. So instead we had a shell and water bead sensory bin at home. Sensory bins are tons of fun! I love sensory bins. They are great for kids to explore and be creative…
We have reached the last of the Blends Coloring Pages! This set has Sp-, St-, Sw- and Tr- blends. These coloring pages are very similar to the CVC Word family Coloring pages. I like that you have three pictures to color and a box so kids can make their own picture for the blend. We…
I’m very excited once again to be a part of the Virtual Book Club for Kids for 2015-2016. My girls have really enjoyed being a part of the book club. There is a great line-up of books for this year. I know that they pick the books out with great care. I’ve never had a…
My youngest is really into her word family words right now. We are working on them a lot. To help her have some fun with the different words, I made these CVC Word Family Bookmarks. These are great for reading practice of rhyming words from different short vowel word families. Each of the CVC word…
The girls and I enjoy being a part of the Virtual Book Club. We have been doing it for a long time. The girls always look forward to seeing what books we will be doing. At the end of the year I thought I would round up all the activities and introduction posts from the…
We have reached the fifth pack of the Number Review Packs. This is the 19th pack of the Romping & Roaring Number Packs. The themes from the first 4 packs are mixed together in this review pack – 9: little red hen, 10: fairy, 11: crayons, 12: Pets. This is the second review set with…
It is time for the More Love Back to School Sale! I’m having a sale at my Teachers Pay Teachers. The sale runs for Today ONLY! days! Yes, that is today Only! Teachers Pay Teachers is having a sitewide sale. That means my store will be 20% off and if you use the coupon: MORE15….
Last year these shoes and button calendar was by for my girl’s favorite calendar that we used. We had so much fun with it. After I finished the Apple Calendar Update one of my girls asked if we could use the shoes again as well. I thought why not. I love having variety and I…
We love having an Apple Theme for the Fall. It is so much fun to use for calendar time. We have enjoyed the cards over the last two years. They are fun and easy to use. This calendar set matches up with the Apple Activities Pack. The first set of the calendar has 6 different…
The Superhero Pack has been a pack that we have been very excited about. It was hard to pick just what would go into the pack. There are so many fun things you can do with superheroes! We have included links to some of the products and resources we have used with this activity. If…
We love doing gross motor activities at our house. At least three of four times a week we do some kinds of gross motor activity. This activity is a fun ways to read a book and get moving at the same time. This is a great addition to our gross motor activities on the site!…
The Free Little Miss Muffet Pack is another of the Nursery Rhyme packs! Nursery rhymes are so fun to use with kids of all ages. This is a great printable pack for doing Little Miss Muffet activities with the poem. You have Little Miss Muffet Pack activities for Tot, Preschool, Kindergarten, and First grade. There…
We always have loved having the small books in the packs. My youngest just loves to have small books and collects them. These CVC Word Family Small Books are great for kids to work on their words and fun to read through them. We are starting with short a. These books don’t need staples or…
Wall Cards have been a massive part of our learning. The wall cards can be used in many different ways. We have enjoyed having the different types of wall cards for learning to read. The CVCe Wall Cards are just the next set of learning to read printables on 3 Dinosaurs. The CVCe Word Family…
I’m very excited about August’s theme. There are so many books that have been made into movies. It will be hard to pick just one book. I really like that each month we always have fun books to explore. I thought I would share some of our favorite books that are movies. We have included…
Now and then I forget that I’ve made something and never put it out. Last year I made this weekly school help printable. The weekly calendar is to help with kids going to school. I always got confused who had what schedule. As kids go up in grades, it can be harder to remember their…
We have reached the fourth pack of the Number Review Packs. This is the 18th pack of the Romping & Roaring Number Packs. The themes from the first 4 packs are mixed together in this review pack – 9: little red hen, 10: Superhero, 11: crayons, 12: Pets. This is the first review set with…
It is time for the Back to School Sale! I can’t believe we are at August already. I’m having a sale at my Teachers Pay Teachers. The sale runs for two days! Yes, that is two days only: August 3rd & 4th. Teachers Pay Teachers is having a sitewide sale. That means my store will…
Every month we all get excited about the books we have for the Virtual Book Club. This months author is one we have had in the past. This months is Bill Martin Jr. It was almost two years ago he was a book club author. He has so many fun books my girls just love…
July was a crazy month for me. It had lots of ups and downs. I also had some changes that I’ll be making over the next several months.A lot of these goals help me keep track of what I’m doing for all my goals over the month. Every month several other bloggers get together and…
We are once again getting into the start of learning to read with my youngest. She is totally in love with anything that has a playdough mat with it. She has loved the Dolch Word Family Playdough Mats with tracing. She has been working on her CVC word family words over the last few months….
We had lots of fun looking at books this month. We have been very busy filling in our summer reading charts. We had tons of books that we read this month. There was always a fun new book to find. We have been checking out 20 to 30 books a week right now. It was…
July’s Poppins Book Nook theme is composers. We are lucky enough that the girls grandfather is a composer. I also worked for several years doing classical music data entry. I love listening to all the different types of music. I picked a book that we could learn about a classical composer and listen to music….
Over the last two years, we have loved using the calendar. There are so many ways to use them. This year has a new addition for the calendars. I’m hoping you enjoy the new changes. You will find the old pages and some new ones. This school set matches up very nicely to the School…
With the first look at Pluto this last week we had some fun learning about the planets. I thought it was a great time to do a project and make some of the planets for ourselves. We like doing craft projects with model magic. This was a great addition to our space week. We have…
We have been reviewing a lot of math this summer. One fun way we have done this is with these number bond mats. They make learning math a lot of fun. Today, we have the addition and subtraction mats coming out. The Addition & Subtraction Number Bond Mats printables are a great addition to the…
This is the 17th pack in the Romping & Roaring Number Packs. There are 33 sets in the Romping & Roaring Number Packs. It has a pet theme to the pack. This Romping & Roaring Number 12 Pack is part of the huge set. There are 33 packs total and 11 extras that are really…