Winter Number Line for Chilly Math Fun
It’s getting cold (or maybe it is where you are, here it’s just been getting pleasant). And that means it’s time for winter fun. Winter is still exciting at this point! Not many people are sick and tired of the snow and cold. It’s already time to start capitalizing on the excitement that comes with…
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Learning to Read with Star Wars Easy Reader
Logi-Bear loves Star Wars so much that he talked me into buying him this Star Wars Phonics set. It’s not great but he’s highly motivated to practice reading them. So not all bad, right? I think it’s meant for kids a bit further along in their reading. Either way, I wanted to put together an…
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Star Wars Addition and Multiplication Fact Game
The new Star Wars is out and my kids are so excited! I’m sure they’re not the only ones. We’ve also made our goal for December to finish memorizing our math facts! Thus, the Star Wars math game just had to be made! It’s a fairly simple game yet a lot of fun. I hope…
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Star Wars Addition Mats for Math Fun
When I heard the new Star Wars movie was going to be out this week I knew it was time to take advantage of their love for Star Wars. Star Wars math? Check! Star Wars writing? You bet. And maybe when we’re done we will see a Star Wars movie! This is a kind of…
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Engaging Online Field Trips for Homeschool Learning
Has anyone else found that Field Trip options are limited? We don’t live in a big city and while we do have a lot of good options for field trips, I feel like there is a lot more that we are missing out on. The boys have so many interests and while I want to…
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Detective Math with Invisible Ink
Have you ever seen the way a kids eyes light up when you ask them to be a detective? I’ll admit, I use this technique much too often. It’s losing it’s steam. But when something is lost (especially if it’s something of mine…) we all become detectives. We go all out and get on our…
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No Prep Christmas Addition Pack
Holidays are stressful. Not bad stressful, but stressful none the less. I don’t know about you, but when I feel stressed, nothing gets done. And that’s all fine and dandy unless you’re responsible for teaching children! A few off days are okay but I cannot just ditch the entire month of December. We’ve discussed Christmas…
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Elf on the Shelf Learning Fun for Math and Reading
Elf on the Shelf is one of those things that a lot of people love to hate. And a lot of people hate to love. We’re not doing the Elf at this point but I really enjoy seeing what mischief other elves get into. I’ve gotta say, some of you are really really creative with…
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Christmas Tree Addition Mazes for Fun Addition Practice
Christmas time means busy, busy, busy – right? Is it just me? We don’t even start shopping for presents until later in the month but we are just busy. There are so many events and exciting things in December. We always end up slacking off school a bit in December and we do “Christmas school”…
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Easy Kids Coding Lessons with BitsBox
My kids are better with electronics that me. How did this happen? Don’t get me wrong, I knew this day would come, just not that it would come so soon. I consider myself fairly up to date on technology! But they know more. So when Baloo wanted to learn to code I didn’t even know…
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Christmas Addition Mats (and Subtraction too!)
We love making math hands on and the counting mats have been such a hit! Now that we’re working with larger numbers, I wanted to make a version of the counting mats with two 10-frames! We need to practice counting all the way to 20! And thus, the addition mats were made. They can also…
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5 Ways to Introduce the Periodic Table of Elements
Do you try to introduce concepts well before necessary so it doesn’t seem like such a new topic? I’ve noticed this trend and I really like it. Royal (7) just started multiplication – a very very basic multiplication. But this way, when he really needs to learn it, it won’t be this completely new concept. …
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