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Makin’ Maps

Happy Thursday! Is your week treating you well? We’ve been waiting for the rain to pass, watching DVR’d figure skating and playing UNO Attack (many, many, many times….).
Yesterday, I posted some fun map projects over at my homeschooling blog. If you enjoyed doing our Zoo Maps activity, you might want to check it out!

Have a [...]

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Number Play: Estimating

Happy New Year! I am starting 2010 with a bit of a cold, which is slowing me down a bit… I’ll be re-posting some of my older posts this week while I rest-up and get ready for new things in the new year! Enjoy!
{originally posted February 2008}
An estimate is, very simply, a good guess. [...]

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Counting the House

One of the girls’ favorite math activities this week was counting the house. I gave them a list of various things around our home – windows, tables, chairs, bathtubs, etc. – and they had to go around the house counting and recording the numbers. They loved it! Somehow anything involving a clipboard is super-cool to [...]

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Exploring Apples

We have been celebrating the arrival of fall with some fun apple exploration – I love apple season! We are planning a trip to the apple orchard soon. In the meantime, here’s what we’ve been up to:

sink or float?

How many teddy bears does your apple weigh?

sketching the inside of an apple

apple printing
Yesterday, we brought home [...]

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More Spinny Speller Fun

Delaney is still quite enamored with the Spinny Speller – I think she is still amazed that she can sound-out words! (Read my first post about Spinny Spellers here.)
She wanted to write down all the words she was sounding out, so I made her this simple recording sheet. I put it inside a sheet protector [...]

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Homeschooling: Off & Running

We’re settling into our second week of homeschooling. The girls are eager every morning to get going with their work – most mornings we are starting around 7:45! Here’s a peek at a few things we did last week:
M&M Graphing

Watercoloring on wet paper:

Making numbers and other creations with Wikki Stix:

Playing Double Shutter (with the bonus [...]

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Spinny Spellers

Have you seen the Spinny Speller? We are all quite enamored with this simple toy. Spin the wood blocks and spell basic consonant-vowel-consonant words (you can make 36 real words, and dozens more silly ones, too!). The first time Delaney, age 4, played with the Spinny Speller she successfully sounded out a few words than [...]

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Summer Fun Bag #1: Tangrams

The thing I love most about summer is that my kids get to have those long unstructured blocks of playtime that they need and crave. However, I know I will hear, “There’s nothing to do…” more than once! In the interest of being proactive, I’m putting together some Summer Fun Bags – ziploc [...]

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7 Fun Ways to Explore Shapes

1. Draw shapes outside with sidewalk chalk. Give your child shape challenges, like “march around the square,” “jump in and out of the circle,” or “count the sides on the triangle.”
2. Go on a shape hunt. Give your child a clipboard and paper with two or more shapes to find. Hunt inside, outside, [...]

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