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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 [...]

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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 bags filled [...]

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Shape Collage

Step 1: Surprise your young artists with a tray of colorful paper shapes. Step 2: Make sure the glue is handy. Stand back and let the creating begin! Step 3: Ooh and aah over the shape-inspired masterpieces. The girls spent a good amount of time creating shape pictures over the weekend, and have continued to [...]

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File Folder Games

I’ve written about these before, but we love making our own board games out of file folders. You can check out my ideas and examples for these easy DIY games over at Blissful Kids today! Happy playing!

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Roll-a-Snack

When the pantry starts to fill-up with various odd and ends of crackers, cereal, raisins, etc., we like to dump it all together into a yummy snack mix. Sometimes, we even make it into a game – a little math with your snack! I call it Roll-a-Snack. All you need are various snacks (nuts, dried [...]

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Musical Instruments

At the beginning of the school year, I volunteered to be the music docent for Natalie’s Kindergarten class. Once a week, we sing, move, and play instruments together for 30 minutes. One of the objectives for the year is recognizing some common orchestra instruments by sight and sound. The kids are so interested in learning [...]

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Collections

My girls love to collect and gather. There is always a pile of sticks and rocks at my front door. There’s usually a bucket of little animals traveling from the house to the car and back again. Recently, they each began focusing on collecting a certain item – buttons for Natalie, rocks for Delaney. Collections [...]

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Bingo!

My girls LOVE to play bingo! We make our own bingo games — sometimes I make them on the computer, other times we print out a blank grid and we use seasonal stickers for the pictures. We play bingo with letters, numbers, rhyming words, shapes, money, holidays, etc. Practically any skill you want to work [...]

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Fun With Magnetic Letters

Magnetic letters are fun for making words on the fridge, of course, and a great hands-on way for little ones to explore letters. Here are some more fun ways to use magnetic letters and work on those pre-literacy skills: Hide & Seek Hide a few capital letters around the room. Give your child the lowercase [...]

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