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Create a Letter-Writing Kit for Kids

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Every day, my daughters excitedly walk to the mailbox and check to see if they received any letters. There is just something special about receiving a hand-written note in the mail. I love it, too! Writing letters is a wonderful way to maintain connections with family and friends. And, letter-writing provides meaningful reading and writing [...]

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Measure the House

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Happy Friday! I know many of your kids enjoyed the Counting the House printable activity I posted a while back. So, I have another fun around-the-house math activity for you – let’s do some measuring! The printable is two pages – the first page includes items that can be measured with a ruler, and the [...]

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Let’s Sort!

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{Originally posted May 2008} I don’t know about your kids, but mine love to sort! They are both naturally driven toward making groupings of similar objects, lining them up or making little piles.  Sorting is not only fun, it’s also building those important early mathematical and scientific reasoning skills. Here are some of the easy [...]

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Gift Idea: Beginner Microscope

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I’ve been blogging in secret this week so I can show you some sneak peeks of the girls’ Christmas gifts. We often do at least one joint or family gift, and this year the girls are getting a beginner microscope. We are definitely ready to move beyond magnifying glasses around here. And, after spending a [...]

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Learning Coin Values with Money Bingo

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Delaney told me she keeps getting “all the coin money mixed up.”  It probably doesn’t help that her sister can count her piles of coins without any help. So, we’ve been playing a very simple money bingo game to work on those pesky coin values.  Delaney loves bingo, so I can pretty much give her [...]

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Scrambled States

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Since we started participating in a 50 states postcard swap (graciously hosted by Aimee at Adventures & Pursuits), the girls have been fully absorbed in exploring U.S. maps, looking at photos and videos on state tourism websites, and trying to learn each state’s special state symbols.  The whole family is having a blast learning state [...]

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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! [...]

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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 [...]

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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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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 [...]

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