We have been having fun exploring some fine motor activities with Halloween themed cookie cutters! This is tons of fun to explore the colors and how creative you kids can be exploring different combination of items to make the picture in the cookie cutter. This activity works in creative and fine motor at the same…
Halloween has so many different things you can explore. This Eye Ball Sensory Bin was lots of fun to explore different weights. There were different eyeballs that were very light to hold and the rock was very heavy compared to the erasers. This was also great to look at the shapes of the eyes ball…
The next calendar update is the Thanksgiving Calendar Set. The calendar update is for the 2014 year. We had a lot of fun with that last year. Thanksgiving is a great time of year and these calendar cards make it a little more fun. There are always many ways to use the calendar cards. Don’t…
I really do love the nursery rhymes and the Mother Goose ones are always so much fun! I thought it would be fun to start putting out mini pack for a few of these! Nursery rhymes are one of the easier things to do with kids. They are easy to memorize and fun to repeat…
We have been exploring the colors of red, yellow and orange this fall. One thing we did during this time was a fun water bead sensory bin gem hunt! This is a fun activity for looking for colored glass gems in clear water beads. This was tons of sensory filled fun. This is great to…
We are always looking for new ways to put sensory and counting together. This is a fun activity that provided fun sensory, fine motor and counting. We stamped numbers and counted pumpkins to match. This activity could easy be switched up for non-seasonal items in the sand. It is fun and easy to set up…
Kids have been in school for a while and it is getting close to parent teacher conferences. Now it is a great time to start thinking about writing a thank you note for the teacher. They do a lot to help our kids learn. I had someone ask for a cute thank you note and…
It is time for the Pumpkin Pack: Math Activities! I thought after the language we should have some new math as well. Pumpkins are by far our favorite theme for the fall. This update is going to add some fun pumpkin math activities. The Pumpkin Math Pack was made for kids 4 to 10. This…
We just love Room on the Broom. It is a great book to read and fun as well. You can see great friends and how everyone helps out the witch. We love to read it over and over. It is a book we keep out all year round and not just for Halloween. Counting Ingredients…
Skip counting can be made a lot of fun. We love doing our skip counting activities and this was a fun way to add more hands-on activities with skip counting. You can put the numbers in order and working on skip counting patterns and more! We have included links to some of the products and…
This months Poppins Book Nook theme is Beyond Our Planet. Space is a big theme at our house. We are always talking about the stars and the planets. There are so many fun and exciting books about space. I’m sure we will have fun picking out a few of the books that we will like…
Here is a Pumpkin Activities pack update with lots of language activities. The Pumpkin Pack was one of our favorite packs last year, because of that it is getting an update this year! The Pumpkin Language Pack was made for kids 4 to 10. This was made to go with the books: How Big Could…
This months Virtual Book Club for Kids Author is Julia Donaldson. We have some favorite books by her. We did her for the vitrual book club a while back. We read The Snail and the Whale and really enjoyed it. There are a wide range of books that she has. We really enjoyed the last…
Today I’m happy to be doing the Letter A for the 31 Days of ABCs. Last year I did the letter P. We had so much fun. I thought I would share a few of the ways we did our letter A activities. There are so many different activities that you can do for the…
September was a month of ups and downs. It was a very frustrating month for many reasons. The biggest reason was my health. It made me take a lot more time off than I really wanted to do. So October is going to be about building back up and moving forward and not looking back….
BOB Books makes learning to read fun. This week we have another set of early reading printables to use with your kids. We are still in the BOB Books Rhyming Words book 7 & 8 this time. These books are easy to use and learn some great CVC and CCVC word family words. The next…
This months theme was a lot of fun for the girls we read several different books for the wild west theme. We read several books for this months theme. It was fun to find new books every time we went to the library. It was fun to learn about the different native nations, the cowboys,…
We love looking for new books. This month all the books but one were a library find for us. I love using the library and exploring all that we can find there. I’m never disappointed when we go looking for books. This month has books with no words, fables, animals, dragons, fall and more. You…
We have been working on a lot of skip counting to help get ready for lots of multiplication and division. We were using the earlier skip counting printables to help with it. It was time for a simple and easy to use skip counting printable that we could keep on our portable learning walls. Now…
BOB Books makes learning to read fun. This week we have another set of early reading printables to use with your kids. We are still in the BOB Books Rhyming Words book 7 & 8 this time. These books are easy to use and learn some great CVC and CCVC word family words. The next…
Fall is almost here and then trees are starting to change. It is very fun time of year here in New England. I love looking at the trees and how different all the leaves are. For a fun project that we did this fun ribbon tree. We used some different colors of ribbon that had…
My big goal this year has been about being organized and keeping myself ahead of where I need to be. For that, I needed printables to help me with that. I can say that making a Weekly Menu has really helped me keep on track and do what I need to do. I did not…
In the fall we love learning about leaves and doing activities with them. We are always doing some activities with them. This year we did a full 2 weeks on the study of leaves. As part of that we did these hands on activities and sensory bin. When we have a sensory bin I always…
Halloween is in October and it is always fun to have Seasonal Calendars. We always love Halloween at our house. It is fun to see the many different games and ideas we can do with the theme. I can updated the calendar from last year and added a new pattern for this year. Don’t forget…
How do you do dot marker printables is one of the top questions that I get. I thought I would show a few ways that we used the Dot Marker printables for the Fall Tree in the Fall Dot Marker Extras. The ways to use these fall tree dot marker printable pages is open ended….
The Free Pumpkin Calendar Cards has been updated plus a new pattern set as well! This is perfect calendar for October and November theme of pumpkins. This was a favorite of my girls last year. We love having the calendar cards and pages. We use them often. Some times the cards are used for hands…
This months printable at Free Homeschool Deals is Fall Acrostic Poems. They match up with the Free Fall Pack. They are a fun way to explore letters and things about fall. See how creative your kids can be with their poems. If you have a younger child who can’t write sentences of come up with…
BOB Books makes learning to read fun. This week we have another set of early reading printables to use with your kids. We are still in the BOB Books Rhyming Words book 5 & 6 this time. These books are easy to use and learn some great CVC and CCVC word family words. The next…
Fall is a favorite time at our house. The girls love the colors on the trees and so do I. We did this fun Fall Leaves tree painting and had so much fun with it. During the fall we have a favorite book: Red Leaf, Yellow Leaf. I think we read it more than any…
We are entering the season of fall soon. The leaves on the trees here have already started to turn. It seems like this would be a great time to get the Fall Themed To Do List Printable out! I have found that making to do lists helps me stay focused and get back into what…