We have really loved having the butterflies we used a few days ago. They have been so much fun. I realized that the colors matched up to the ones in a game that my girls love to play: Candy Land! This was a chance to turn that game into a fun match activity! This was…
My youngest loves the color coloring pages. After I put them out someone said, my child does not like to use crayons. Well you don’t have to just use crayons or colored pencils with these pages! I thought I would should you 5 different ways that we use them. It is always fun to do…
We have been working on colors with my youngest. It is fun to change up how we do it. The butterflies made a perfect chance for us to do some fun hands on learning with something different. It also goes great with our butterfly theme we have been doing. We love doing butterflies during the…
A recent trip to an art museum left us with some fun ideas for crafts. My girls saw a piece in passing that they just wanted to try at home. The collage was made from cut outs. They wanted to try it with our butterfly punch! We have really enjoyed our butterfly punch. It has…
Eric Carle is one of our favorite authors! There are so many great books by him. I’m always happy when we run into a book of his to read or do an activity with them. Several years ago we went to Eric Carle Museum and loved it. There was so much fun information to learn…
May is going to be a different month for me. You can call this months theme rest recovery from surgery. Nothing major just something small to fix a problem. This changes everything I do for the month. I will take time to recover unlike the last time. Blog Goals April did not go as well…
April was lots of reading for us. There were so many new books to find. I had a hard time limiting myself on the books we really liked. I think I had 25 books in our pile and had to limit myself. Some of these are book finds from the store and some are from…
It is time for the next printable in the CVCC set. This time we have Dot Marker Words for -ANG, -ING, -ONG, – UNG. Dot Markers are always fun to use at our house. My girls love to use them when learning words. It has been something we have put into practice a lot. There…
Farm has always been a favorite theme at our house. We have some favorite books for farm and was one of the first printables that I worked made. Since we are always working on math and addition. The Roll A Farm is tons of fun to practice counting and math with kids. This set was…
Every year I have a sale in my stores for my birthday. This year I’m turning 40 so I wanted to do a 40% off sale! Yes that is 40% off everything in my There are lots of fun new products in my stores as well. Teachers Pay. Teachers won’t let me put the whole…
We have been loving studying butterflies at our house. It has been so much fun to learn about the and do several projects to go with all our learning. This model magic butterfly project is loads and fun and easy to do. We love model magic at our house. It is easy to use and…
We have been studying butterflies at our house. It has been a really fun unit study for us. The girls had some time out of school so we got to do a few activities together around it. It is always fun to see the many different types of butterflies there are. We really like the…
The next set of CVCC Word Family Printables is out. This time is Color by letter for -ANG, -ING, -ONG, – UNG. These are a favorite at our house. We always fun have coloring the words. This is great for those kids that love to color. My girls love making our own flashcards for practice….
How do you use your printables is a common question that I get all the time. Today I thought I would show one way that we use the CVC Word Family Color by Letter Cards. We do some simple sorting and rhyming words. For this example I used all the words ending with -at, -et,…
Spring is here and flower are in bloom. We have been looking forward to spring. I’ve updated last years Flower calendar. We really enjoyed it last year. There is always something fun we can do with the cards. These calendar sets are really easy to use. If you are looking for ways to fit these…
One of our favorite activities is doing matching with a book. We do this often with the toobs that we can match to a book. We have been learning about the life cycle of a butterfly. A recent book find at the library lead us to this great hands on activity. I love pulling out…
We have reached second of the Number Review Packs. This is the 11th pack of the Romping & Roaring Number Packs. The themes from the first 4 packs are mixed together in this review pack – 5: Knight, 6: Outside, 7: Dragon, 8: Dinosaur. You can do the review after doing the number or you…
Playdough is always a great way to learn. Kids love it when you change up an activity that you have been doing. Playdough mats add lots of different ways you can used them. These playdough mats are for the CVC Word Family: -ang, -ing, -ong & -ung. These are mats are really simple and easy…
Spring is here and time for another Chapter Books we are exploring. It is always interesting to see the different and new series that are coming out. We got some new series that we tried out and we love them. There is an animal, humor and Greek theme for this seasons chapter books. A lot…
I get asked how to you use the dot marker pages. I thought I would show a few ways we used the Spring Dot Marker Pritnables. It is easy to turn a simple page into something different. In the printable set there is some trees and some flowers. Each are different and fun to do…
We are doing something totally different for this months Virtual Book Club! We did some cooking. My oldest has celiac so about 99% of what we cook is gluten free. I thought I would share our fun gluten free muffins that we make from scratch! This is a great and easy cooking project with kids!…
A great progression from CVC words is CVCC words. I’m finally getting back to finishing off this project that I started so long ago. Today we have the CVCC Word Family Cards & Writing for : -ang, -ing, -ong, -ung. We have included links to some of the products and resources we have used with…
With all learning it is fun to take something and change it up. We use the new Dolch Preprimer Sight Word Wall Cards for just this activity. This activity is a fun way to reinforce sight words and looking at the letter they start with. I change it up by having her match them to…
I’m very excited about the Farm theme for this months Poppins Book Nook! There is so much to explore with this theme. Plus there are so many great books to read. I know that my girls have always loved the theme of farms. One of my first theme packs was a Farm Pack! We have…
Every month I write a fun post for Enchanted Homeschooling Mom. I love every one of the posts. This month is one of my favorite activities is gross motor with book! This activity goes with the book: There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Frog!. This is a fun way to interact with the…
I’m always looking at different ways to do gross motor. My girls love to get moving when they can. These Skip Counting Floor printables are prefect for getting kids moving. These skip counting printables have skip counting starting numbers by 2 through 12. Each of the number is on one regular size piece of paper…
I get asked for more Q-Tip printables a lot. I would love to have time to do nothing but make them! But that does not always happen. I thought I would show you a quick and easy way to make a Dot Marker page into the size for a q-tip. I did a post a…
This is the 10th pack in the Romping & Roaring Number Packs. There are 33 sets in the Romping & Roaring Number Packs. It has a dinosaur theme to the pack. This Romping & Roaring Number 8 Pack is part of the huge set. There are 33 packs total and 11 extras that are really…
I love the books by Laura Numeroff. These are fun books that you can read over and over and have with each time. My girls are excited to have this author again. We did her as the author just over a year ago. One book activity that we did Exploring Shadow Puppets. This activity was…
The last set of BOB Books printables is out. We have more in the Sight Words Kindergarten. This set is fun because each books has 3 sight words you work on. This gives you a chance to work on sets of words together as you read the books. These printables are meant to be a…