Number and Letter Recognition Activities for Preschoolers My 2 year old has been learning his numbers and letters recently — a bit haphazardly, to be honest, but somehow he’s picking up the idea. Leapfrog’s DVDs Letter Factory and Numberland have been the most helpful instructional tool we’ve used for this. (You can read more about […] Read more…
This post is a continuation of Preschool Number Activities: Making a 1-10 banner. In the previous post I talked about the impetus to this activity, a favorite DVD for teaching kids numbers, and how to set up the number banner activity. We started out threading beads onto pipe cleaners as the boys counted out the […] Read more…
In this post, I wanted to share with you a few preschool number activities that you can use to introduce basic math skills to your preschoolers. My 2 year old woke up waaay early a few days ago, so I had about an hour of solid one-on-one time with him (and my cup of coffee!). […] Read more…
Sales On All My Digital Learning Resources For the magical weekend coming up (Black Friday through Cyber Monday 🙂 ), I’m holding a storewide 20% off sale. In addition, I’m offering my two biggest items for 60% off their normal price. (Also, see below for information about a free printable math game.) You can read […] Read more…
This is a conclusion to my series on helping our children and students learn to love Reading and Writing. This series has included the initial post (see link above), as well as an article about helping your kids (of all ages!) write creatively – for fun!, more ideas for easily working in some creative writing exercises […] Read more…
Over the past couple weeks, I’ve been working on a series on helping our children and students learn to love Reading and Writing. This has included the initial post as well an article about helping your kids (of all ages!) write creatively – for fun! and more ideas for easily working in some creative writing exercises […] Read more…
Creating a Positive Learning Environment As a former teacher now homeschooling my own kids, I love to create a positive learning environment by cultivating a resource-rich home for them. We haven’t yet reached an age where I feel compelled to decide whether to take the curriculum route or just keep following their lead to explore […] Read more…
Storytelling with Kids – Make Writing Fun! This post contains affiliate links. You can read my full privacy policy here. Last week, as part of my series on helping our children and students learn to love Reading and Writing, I wrote a post about helping your kids (of all ages!) write creatively – for fun! In […] Read more…
Hi! Thank you so much for subscribing to my blog!! If you’ve been following along, you’ll know that I’ve been working on adding in one new piece of the “online puzzle” at a time here. I’ve finally got a newsletter set up through mailchimp, and I’m pretty excited to start sending out newsletters instead of […] Read more…
