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9 Tips To Get Your Child To Fall In Love With Reading

Jaimi Erickson — Thu, 10 Apr 2025 12:00:03 +0000

Guest post by Denise Shields Learning to read is a monumental milestone in a child’s life, opening up a world of knowledge, imagination, and opportunity. As parents, you play a crucial role in laying this foundation of teaching your child to love learning with reading. While every child learns at their own pace, these nine […]

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Copy and Stick: Make a Word Pre-Reading Activity

Jaimi Erickson — Tue, 21 Jan 2025 22:03:42 +0000

I often walk through the dollar store scanning for items that I can use in creating activities. I found some alphabet stickers (which can get a little pricey at the scrapbooking or craft store) so I scooped up a bunch for this game: it is a guided way to make words with stickers. We can […]

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Child Made Color Wheel Color Mixing Cards

Jaimi Erickson — Mon, 10 Jun 2024 20:28:05 +0000

Accidental learning activities are the best. This was one of those. In our preschool time, we accidentally made color wheel color cards and they were all painted by my 2-year-old. You can set this up intentionally to talk about colors, color identification and color mixing with older toddlers and preschoolers. That is what I will […]

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Frog Jump Letter Sounds CVC Worksheet

Jaimi Erickson — Mon, 22 Apr 2024 09:01:00 +0000

Children can learn to read when they are ready. Of my 4 children, 2 could read before kindergarten and 2 could read by 2nd grade. The approach was the same. The preschool activities were the same. Children learn differently and at their own pace. Making reading fun is the point of this letter sounds worksheet. […]

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Making Bedtime Stories More Fun for the Whole Family

Jaimi Erickson — Fri, 09 Feb 2024 21:07:00 +0000

Can you relate to this? It’s the end of the day. You have been trying to get the kids ready to go to sleep. You are exhausted from the day, but the kids are asking you to read to them. Making bedtime stories more fun is hard on those days. As parents, we all have […]

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Preschool Learning Alphabet Order Activity

Jaimi Erickson — Thu, 05 Oct 2023 23:02:47 +0000

What a treat to teach our children skills and abilities! We have so much power and influence to help them succeed. This preschool learning alphabet order activity is one of the activities we used in our preschool at home curriculum. Learning the alphabet is a fundamental skill and teaching it in a fun way is […]

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Teaching Toddlers to Spell Their Name

Jaimi Erickson — Sun, 04 Jun 2023 05:39:00 +0000

Singing and playing name games are so fun and effective to teach toddlers how to spell their name. One of the joys of being at home with the kids is taking little moments of time to teach valuable bits of info. But it just looks and sounds like games! So the kids learn to love […]

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10 Multi-Age Activities to Encourage Your Kids’ Curiosity

Jaimi Erickson — Wed, 15 Mar 2023 13:52:25 +0000

Activities to encourage your kids’ curiosity does not require expensive kits or classes. You can engage your children in fun explorations, simply. I know kids these days have a different childhood than in previous generations. Phones and screentime limits are just part of their daily life. As parents who may not have lived the same […]

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Easy Preschool Word Find Dollar Store Idea

Jaimi Erickson — Wed, 09 Jun 2021 19:31:39 +0000

When teaching my preschooler to recognize words and learn to read, I came up with a fun little game I call it at home preschool word find. This word find DIY idea is so simple with big learning! Best part about it is it takes one item that costs $1 to do this! You know […]

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Color Sorting and Learning Activity

Jaimi Erickson — Sun, 29 Mar 2020 21:32:01 +0000

Color sorting and learning color names is one of the first skills we teach our toddlers. It was one of the first activities I created for my oldest way back when he was my only child. I loved being able to teach him at home. He thought we were spending quality time together, playing a […]

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