There are many different types of math that kids will learn. One of those types of math is rounding. You start simple with rounding and work up into different areas of place value for it. Today I have a simple ocean fish rounding bye place value to work on three levels of rounding from the…
I know that during the summer I want something easy and fun to use to review math facts. I also know that the ocean is one of our favorite themes to use during the summer. We are always doing something new in it each year. This year I wanted to have some fun no-prep math…
Gross motor at my house is a must. We are always doing something gross motor. It provides an outlet for my girls to get their wiggles out without feeling like it is a big huge chore to do it. And we LOVE that gross motor dice. We have used them inside and outside of our…
The ocean is still one of our favorite themes for the summer. And we just love ocean animals. We are always doing something with an ocean theme. I had so many requests for more easy reader books. I thought an ocean easy reader book would be fun. Plus I just love easy reader books! The…
This month was hard to pick out books. Why, because we traveled the whole month! These are books we found in libraries on our trip. Yup, you can have fun and visit libraries while traveling. It was interesting to see the many different libraries and the different books they carried. Each one arranged books differently…
The ocean is one of our favorite themes. It has not mattered how old my girls have gots we are always looking for new ocean themed activities. Today I have the last of the summer themed number color and trace. We have a fun ocean theme for those kids that love ocean activities! This set…
Watercolors have to be one of our favorite types of painting to do. We love painting activities and do them often. For the summer we pulled out some cookies cutter we have had a while and did an ocean themed cookie color watercolor painting. It is super simple, and we love painting this way. It…
I’m always amazed at how many great books come out each month. There are more books that we can keep track of at times. We love them all and are always looking new ones. We have a mix of books from the library and the store. Why do we look for books at in the…
Every week we go to the library and we love it. My girls enjoy getting new books every week. I love having new books to read to them. This month I challenged them to find new books by authors they knew that they liked. They told me their authors in advance and we went looking…
Every month we look for picture books no matter what! Yes, I have older girls and yes they still read picture books. Picture books are great for kids of many different ages. You don’t have to limit yourself just to preschool and kindergarten. You can read picture books for years to come. Each of these…
Numbers are something we are always teaching. You learn names and work to counting numbers and just learning to recognize patterns of the numbers. We have loved the different ten frame activities and I wanted to expand on that to give more options with hands-on and no-prep printables to use as well! We have a…
Summer writing is not always easy to do. It is hard to find subjects that keep kids going and having fun. It is fun to add a themed to this writing. For this, we have the Comparing Ocean Animals Venn diagrams. This is a fun way to work on writing while having fun. Ocean animals…
Shapes are something kids work on for a long time. They learn their shapes in different ways: the names, types, etc. I’m always looking for some fun way to work on them. We have loved the shape packs and sorting was always one fun activity we have done. Hands-on activities are always fun to have…
There are many ways to work on addition. I love to have themed activities for addition. Word problems are not always fun for kids. I know that one of my girls has always hated them But I do find that adding a theme helps them. Plus having something easy to just print and go is…
I think the theme of Ocean during the summer is one of our favorite themes to do! We are always doing something with the ocean theme. We have a fun week ahead of us or great Ocean themed printables. I’m excited to have 5 days of Ocean printables with Royal Baloo and JDaniel4’s Mom. All…
My girls love having variety in the activities that they do. I know that we are still working on sight words and other skills. The themed finds have been so much fun to use. Plus ocean animals are a great theme that works for summer or all year round! The themed finds are a great…
Summer is here and we are full on headed to the library as much as we can. That means we go through a lot of books! It is hard to pick just a few books. We go through at least 50 books a week! Plus we make several trips to bookstores as well. This month…
I love summer in that we do tons of crafts that are fun! We enjoy doing them. Today I have a fun post that I did for Rainy Day Mum! She has a great summer book and craft series and I’ve done it the last few years. You get to pick out your favorite book…
Every month we love to look for picture books. Yes, even my 11-year-old looks and reads picture books. There are so many different levels of books kids can read. This month my girls each picked one book they liked, and I picked out three that I liked. A lot of these came from our library…
‘m always looking for new sensory bins that I can do with my girls. It means being creative sometimes. My girls wanted to do another Shark Water Bead Sensory Bin and I thought it would be fun to change it up a bit. We did some Prehistoric Sea Life instead. My girls love learning about…
What happens when you child asks to play more with the counters? Put them in a sensory bin! We took the counters from the ocean mats and put it all in a sensory bin. They are so much fun and easy to do. This sensory bin took less than 2 minutes to put together. I…
Counting can be one of those hard activities to work on. These mats make counting a lot of fun with a hands-on activity. My youngest loves using ten frames for her counting activities. We have been working on it a little bit. I thought I would make some ocean mats to go with our Ocean…
I’m always changing up the themes at our house. This last month plus it has been lots ocean activities. We have had so much fun with it. One of the last printables to round out our month is an Ocean Themed Sight Word Cards set! These cards are so much fun for the ocean loving…
My youngest and I have been doing crafts together all school year. It has been tons of fun to do the projects. We learned a lot about playing together without her sisters. Our last project we did was this Ocean themed Wreaths. We have been doing TONS of ocean activities this last month. They have…
We have been big into ocean crafts and activities the last month plus. We have just kept going with the activities. Today I have a great guest post over at Rainy Day Mum! She is doing a great summer book series. Click here to check about how to make a Dot Marker Rainbow Fish! This…
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…
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…
Every summer we go through bookmarks like crazy. We lose them and we can’t seem to every find one when we need it. This summer I’m making sure we have bookmarks! We are starting off with some Ocean Themed Bookmarks! It has been so nice to just be able to print a bookmark out when…
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…
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….