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Learning Greater Than Less Than with Playing Cards

Learning greater than less than with playing cards builds number sense and math skills with a hands-on activity for kindergarten and early elementary age kids. Math skills are crucial to school success - and real world adulting let's be honest. Helping even preschoolers develop a love for learning numbers and math skills builds their future math success. We started with … [Read more...]

ABC Seek and Find Letter Learning Activity

ABC seek and find letter learning activity for preschool to help preschoolers get prepped for kinderarten.

Getting your preschooler ready for kindergarten is on the minds of many parents. It certainly was a focus for me. We did not stress too much about structure during our homeschool preschool time. Even if you are not homeschooling, this ABC Seek and Find Letter Learning activity for preschool kids is simple to do at home. Preschool at home was fun. Just think of all the money … [Read more...]

Helping Kids Focus and Calm Down

This topic of helping our kids focus and calm down is always part of back to school season. We all want our children to thrive each year, and that means helping them learn to the best of their abilities. Actions and emotions of children – and adults – are effected by everything we do and eat. Sleep habits and healthy diet are have a huge impact on helping our kids focus and … [Read more...]

Studying Animal Migration School Age Activity

Kids are fascinated about animal migration and it’s because animals are smart, creative, and have special super powers. We can learn a great deal from studying animal migration. How animals master skills and overcome challenges are great lessons to study. Kids go through seasons in their life where they feel entitled to have what they want without working for it. Animal … [Read more...]

Foil Sculptures One Item Activity

Making foil sculptures is a single item activity great for a rainy day! This foil sculpture one item activity is a great free form way for kids to create!

There are days that we just need to have open ended creativity. It balances out our academic subjects. Fostering creativity and allowing kids the chance to design and build with different materials just adds to their problem solving abilities. Foil sculptures one item activity is a free form way to give kids time to create with a unique material. Aluminum foil is a fun … [Read more...]

Learning Letters and Shapes with Stickers

Learning letters and shapes with stickers preschool activity

For preschool kids, learning letters and shapes in a hands-on way helps the information stick. After teaching all four of my children preschool at home, I have nailed down a few great letter activities that are fun and effective. … [Read more...]

Preparing Your Preschooler to be a Creative Writer

Post by Lisa Brown Preschool age children can learn to develop writing skills even before they know how to read and write. Preparing your preschooler to be a creative writer happens with pretend play, books, drawing, and expressive language.  Following are several learning activities that you can do with your Preschool child on a daily basis to help them become a … [Read more...]

Learning Multiplication Activity

Sometimes learning new skills can be very difficult for children. Up until now my girls haven’t really struggled with anything in school. That all changed when my oldest daughter was learning multiplication and division. She was having a hard time memorizing the multiplication facts.  For whatever reason she just couldn’t get it. We tried everything. We tried … [Read more...]

Map Travel Activity for School Age Kids

Map travel activity for school age kids to help learn map reading skills and keep them occupied on a road trip.

{Post by Heather Hice-McCray} The minute my kids get in the car on a road trip they tell me they’re bored. I have great memories of road trips in the car with my parents because my mom would always pack these awesome travel games. A map activity travel game is great for school age kids! This year I wanted to make a travel game of my own that was simple, … [Read more...]

K5 Learning Program for Children: 2 Weeks Free

K5 School age computer-based learning system.

This is a sponsored post. This post contains affiliate links. Please see my disclosure. I have to admit, I am not always jumping to pay for activities for my kids. Often our budget does not allow for that extra spending.  You know me with the free/cheap kids activities! Have you seen all the commercials for computer-based learning programs for children and wondered if they … [Read more...]

What to do with Toddlers

What to do with toddlers while homeschooling. Great activity ideas for toddlers and preschoolers while you are homeschooloing older kids or just need activities for learning at home.

{This post is sponsored by Autumn McKay. All opinions are my own.} We started our first homeschool year last year. Balancing 2 toddlers while magically creating time to focus on my older two children was a challenge to say the least. (Brings out super woman cape from the closet…) The juggling act of homeschooling multiple children in multiple learning levels is-to be blunt- … [Read more...]

Encouraging Kids to be Thankful

Creative ways you can be encouraging kids to be thankful every day. We think of thankfulness at Thanksgiving, but kids can learn gratitude every day.

Our family has a tradition of sharing the favorite part of our day with each other. We usually share while we are all together eating dinner. It is one of the ways we are encouraging kids to be thankful every day. Even on nights when daddy is away the girls will make it a point to ask him over the phone what his favorite moment was. With so much negativity surrounding … [Read more...]

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