Ideas for making a DIY craft station activity in a bag, modeled after subscription craft kits and cooking shows where contestants use random ingredients. Read more…
Teach kids to code using Scratch Jr, a fun, intuitive coding program. This is our review of the website, app, book, and game built around the Scratch system that helps kids (ages 5-7) enjoy learning fundamental principles of coding by designing and animating both characters and settings. Read more…
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Too many kids hate math because they’ve had negative experiences with it; they’ve often been forced to memorize something that didn’t make sense or wasn’t relevant or interesting. Programs like RightStart Mathematics help to eliminate this pervasive, crippling math anxiety. Here’s our experience with the curriculum. Read more…
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Our “creation station” is one of the most used learning centers in our homeschool area (which is actually our entire house!). I wrote about some of our fall craft activities here, if you’d like more inspiration for things to make with your kids at home. Paper Crafts We bought a couple Ed Emberley drawing books […] Read more…
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Number Recognition Game for Preschoolers
I’ve recently been inspired to create activities to help Lil Dude with number recognition (1-10, mostly). Last week we made a number banner, and I wanted to build on the momentum gained from that experience. In an attempt to find another interactive, discovery-type learning activity for him, I came up with this “game in a box.” […] Read more…
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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…
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Preschool Number Banner, part 2
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…
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Preschool Number Activities – Making a 1-10 banner
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…
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Cyber Monday sale — 60% off math resources
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…
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Let Them Tell Stories – 5 Reasons to Encourage Storytelling
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…
