These daily skills practice templates as completely adaptable to meet the current needs of your learners. These are meant to serve as quick and simple review practice for skills that need daily attention, or to help teach skills that can be worked on 5-to 10 minutes at a time. You can use all these templates with multiple kids at different levels simultaneously! Enjoy! Read more…
Nature study free printable Bird Book
Nature study free printable: Bird Book – enjoy learning about birds with this notebooking activity using bird cards and mini-book templates. Read more…
This blank comic strip template printable is a great out-of-the-box way to ignite kids’ enthusiasm for writing and story-telling. Share this with your young artists and writers and watch them create sagas to display in their own library and proudly share with others. Even if they’re too young to write, they’ll enjoy this free-style opportunity […] Read more…
This English grammar lapbook is a complete unit study on the parts of speech for kids from Kindergarten to second grade. It includes hands-on activities, graphic organizers, interactive notebook style journaling, task cards, and a Parts of Speech story. Read more…
I believe that a unit study on Inventors is one of the best ways to instil a serious and healthy growth mindset in our children.Through reading these stories, doing hands-on science experiments to re-create these discoveries, studying the engineering behind these inventions, and overall, being impressed with the effort it took at every stage to break through and succeed, our children will learn in a deep and fundamental way that the learning, practising, and questioning process is a vital part of life, and will be encouraged to persevere in the face of difficulty. Read more…
Outside Fun Learning Activities for Kids “Play is our brain’s favorite way of learning.” – Jean Ackerman This post contains affiliate links. Free Play Kids love fun outside activities; when you can easily weave in learning opportunities to their natural play – all the better! This is not to discount the unequivocal advantage of free […] Read more…
Are you looking for a new kind of chapter book series for young readers? Something that focuses on positive relationships and self-image rather than bullying? Something that portrays realistic characters in plausible adventures, exploring and creating their way through childhood? Follow our progress on a new series! Read more…
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…
Storytelling Activities – Creative Writing with kids, part 3
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…
Creative Writing with Kids, part 2
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…