Every year I learn something new when I’m working with my girls on math. The last few years was the idea of grouping and arrays for multiplication. It is a hard concept for some kids to understand. There are groups of numbers that make more numbers. I showed some of this in the Winter multiplication…
I know that not all of my girls learn the same way. One learns great with flashcards, another with worksheets and one needs anyway I can teach it for her to learn. I have made different things to meet those needs. Today is a free hands-on Christmas tree fraction activity that we did with stormtroopers…
There are always kids who just don’t do well with flashcards. No matter how many times we drill them on the same cards they just don’t get it. Hands-on mats are an excellent way to get them learning their math facts. I just love these mats because they show the ten frame that will be…
Math facts are something kids need to learn. They most often have to memorize the facts by repeating them over and over. It is not always fun to do. Plus you have to work on how the different math facts work together.This no prep Christmas math facts printable is a great way to work on…
Math facts are something we are always working on. It seems that no matter how many times we work on them we still need more practice. I have a mix of where my girls are in their learning. I’m always looking to see what fun ways we can work on them. They have just loved…
After using clip cards the last month for math, my girls asked me to make more. I thought we would try some for skip counting. The free skip counting clip have a fun Christmas themed to them. This is the start of the 12 days of Christmas Printables! Clip Cards are great for working fine…
After Royal Baloo and I did the 31 days of Free Printables in October, which we had a BLAST doing. We thought it would be fun to do something for Christmas! Plus who does not love having new printables to use. Christmas has to be one of my favorite times of the year! There are…
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…
Christmas is one of my favorite times of the year. This year is no different. I’m going to be spending time with my girls and enjoying that time. I hope that everyone has a great Christmas and enjoys time with their family. We are going to be wrapped up watching movies and reading books and…
Every year I love adding new things for the different seasons. We have had so much fun with the Thanksgiving Placemats, I thought I would add some Christmas ones! Holidays are really hard to get kids to sit still while everyone eats and fun placemats help with that. Plus these are fun to do without…
A fun counting book with Christmas trees and ornaments for kids in PreK and kindergarten. A simple way to work on numbers from 1 to 10. You can count the ornaments on the tree as you go through the pages. The Counting Christmas Ornaments Book is a great addition to the Christmas printables on the…
Every year we make some kind of window hanging that we put up. It changes every year what we will do. This year we made Tissue paper Christmas Wreaths. We just love having these sun catchers in the window to add more to the season. The Tissue Paper Christmas Wreath is a great addition to…
Christmas time is here, and it is always fun to have seasonal activities to make. We have had fun with different writing activities that I’ve done for the CVC and CVCC word family words. They are tons of fun and easy to use. Now we have a fun Christmas Tree writing activity to add to…
Thank you cards are so important this time of year. Everyone likes to be thanked for something. We all love it. This year I’m adding some Nativity Themed Thank You Cards. I have several other cards, but I really wanted to add this theme this year. There are so many ways to remember the season….
Christmas is a fun time. We always enjoy having new traditions and using old ones as well. I thought this year I would make something fun for my girls to help countdown to Christmas with these advent bookmarks. Every year my girls ask for something to put in their room to help with their countdown….
Every year the last few years I have been updating the calendar sets. They are always fun to have at our house. We love using the calendar printables. Each month is it fun to have different themes. It seems that December is always a busy month with calendars. We do a lot of fun Christmas…
Every year we add new Christmas Books to our collection. This year is no different. We have found a few books. Each of us picked out a book at the bookstore that we want to add to our collection. Every year there are creative Christmas book and sometimes we find ones that we missed that…
Merry Christmas! My girls and I are taking a few days off! We shall be having fun and enjoying the season together! I’ll shall see you in the new year 2015! Cassie – 3Dinosaurs.com
Water beads are a favorite at our house! After the fall water bead search my girls asked for something just as fun for Christmas! This was tons of fun to set up and loads of sensory fun for them to play in. My girls love the Safari Ltd Designer TOOBS Christmas. I’m always looking for…
There are so many ways to learn about the Nativity. And acrostic poem writing is a great way to do that. Kids can explore words and work on learning more about the Nativity. We have included links to some of the products and resources we have used with this activity. If you purchase via the…
The Nutcracker is a great theme at Christmas time. For that theme, this year is a fun learning pack with a Nutcracker theme. This really fun Nutcracker pack has loads of different Nutcracker types. They make a fun learning pack for kids to learn about Christmas. You are going to find a mix of hands-on…
Christmas is a great time to explore many different things. My girls love to do coloring activities. We have been working on some writing of Christmas words as well. There are many words to learn at Christmas time. It is fun to be able to learn all of them. These printables are a great way…
Wreaths are one of the great Christmas decorations. This is a very simple and easy to make wreath. My girls love working with yarn for crafts. This is an easy craft that many different age groups can do together. Yarn is a great craft to work with. It adds fun texture to pictures and activities….
Christmas lights are one thing my girls just love to go out and see. Bringing part of that into activities has been tons of fun. This sensory bin is an extension of the
We have been having so much fun with these rolling activities. My older girls wanted something more challenging for them. So for the Christmas Tree, I added in some more challenging math addition and multiplication. This is such a fun activity to do. This was a perfect addition to the Christmas printables on 3 Dinosaurs….
We have been working on making lots of words from letters. I thought we would do this activity for Christmas. We have really enjoyed this and it is something that can be used for many different levels. You can do basic words or try and work on larger words. It can vary for the level…
One of the great themes of Christmas is the Christmas lights. My girl love looking at the lights. This was a fun change in the activities with the lights. We have been working on colors and fine motor. This was a great way to combined the two activities. This makes such a great activity for…
We have been learning about the Nativity. We have been reading books about it. We are sharing an easy Paper Roll Nativity that we put together and used with the book Itsy Bitsy Christmas: You’re Never Too Little for His Love. I love this story because it is about how the king that was visiting…
My girls just love to countdown to Christmas. I was looking around my printables and realized that I put made something last year I did not put out! It was the fun Countdown to Christmas with fun advent printables. I had put together a few different ones and I guess I never had time to…
Christmas is my favorite season! I just love the many different themes you can find. I am updating the Christmas calendar cards and single calendar pages for 2014! There are 3 different themes: Santa, Elves and Christmas items. These were so much fun to have least year and use. We are using them again this…