Baloo loves the Titanic.  I don’t remember what sparked his interest in the great ship, but since then he has been infatuated with it.  We read books about the Titanic all the time – he just cannot soak up enough information! Our local museum had a Titanic exhibit come through and I thought they would…

  I’m working on 1:1 correspondence, counting, and number recognition with Royal, and this just seemed to be a natural activity to practice all of those together.  I’ve posted before about the boys love for large papers on the ground, and the magic works on Royal too! For this activity I simply rolled out the…

  Ivory Soap ExperimentWe finally did the Ivory Soap experiment, and it was every bit as fun as promised.  Although, I have to admit that only 1 of my boys (Royal) really enjoyed it.  He played with the soapy, flaky mixture for an hour, and most of that time by himself.The initial experiment was a…

Included in the pack: F is for Fire Truck coloring page Dot the F’s Stamp the F’s Connect the Fire Trucks Prepare for F Trace the F Prepare for 6 Trace the 6 Paste the Fire Trucks to the F Letter F/Sight word ‘can’ mini book Sort the F’s and f’s F dot marker page…

When the Virtual Book Club featured Kevin Henkes we picked up a box set called A Box of Treats, and one of our favorite books in it was Owen’s Marshmallow Chick.  In the book Owen gets an Easter basket and eats all the treats until he gets to the Marshmallow Chick and realizes it’s the…

If you haven’t heard of the Ivory Soap experiment by now, then you are missing out.  It’s been on my list of things to try, and I finally remembered to buy Ivory soap the other day.  (It HAS to be Ivory brand soap – other’s will not work!) All you have to do is take…

This is the first month of the Poppins Book Nook blog hop and the theme this month was Knights, Princesses, and Castles. We are conveniently in the midst Medieval week, so we have a bunch of medieval books out from the library.     We first read The Knight and the Dragon when we were…

Logi-Bear 23 monthsRoyal – 3 years 11 months We’ve had a pretty busy few weeks.  We’re really getting into All About Reading Pre-Reading with Royal.  He loves singing the alphabet song and pointing at the letters.  We often end up doing it multiple times a day!  That’s the only formal curriculum we have, and we’re…

We’ve had a very active and very messy couple of weeks.  The weather has been off and on (although I can’t complain because its been mostly beautiful!) so we’ve spent some time indoors trying to stay sane. Royal loved blowing these bubbles in a cup and letting them flower over. He blew bubbles for a…

We’ve been working diligently on our ABCs, and I’m really pleased with how the set is turning out.  I was planning to do a review set every 5 letters, but then last week I was contacted by Niki from Living Worlds Apart who said she had put together a review set of her own, based…

I’ve been trying to pick up some of the Five in a Row titles that I cannot find at my local library and do not already own…but since we have Before Five in a Row, and Five in a Row volumbers 1-3, that’s way too many books to memorize!  And I definitely cannot remember which…