Cleaning a Penny Experiment

We were recently counting our money, when Logi-Bear tried to eat one of the pennies.  My main reason to not let him?  Because money is dirty.  Which naturally led to a discussion about cleaning the money, and started our next experiment!  What is the best way to clean a penny? We looked up methods of…

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Bubble Wrap Flowers

We’re really excited for spring to come and the boys are loving the springy crafts we’ve been doing!  We recently received a few packages with bubble wrap in them, and I’ve been dying to do a bubble wrap craft!  So, bubble wrap flowers it was! I started off by making some flower petal stamps.  I…

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The Gruffalo by Julia Donaldson–Virtual Book Club for Kids

I’ve been joining in with the Virtual Book Club for Kids for 8 months now and I’ve found so many new-to-me authors who I now love – and Julia Donaldson is about to be another one!  I was not familiar with any of her books before this month.  Our local library, sadly, had just 3…

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Ee is for Excavator

We are slowly catching up in our own Zoomin Moving ABCs, so I’ve decided to release the packs every other week for now.  We should be caught up at G – so just a few weeks! Included in the pack:E is for Excavator coloring pageDot the E’sStamp the E’sConnect the ExcavatorsPrepare for ETrace the EPrepare…

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A Story About Ping–Learning With Literature

I’m so excited to really get into Five in a Row and really start rowing more books.  We’ve done a few books here and there, but we are now transitioning into FIAR as a major part of our curriculum! Our first row was A Story About Ping.  I decided on this book because it’s the…

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Spring Sun Catchers

  It’s obvious (here at least!) that Spring is coming!  The weather is getting nicer, flowers are starting to bloom…and I’m excited!  I love spring!!! We have some seriously bare windows and I thought the perfect thing for spring would be some nice window decorations.  I printed out some springy coloring pages for the boys…

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31 Days of Simple Sensory–week 1

  We started off the week with a color hunt!  We’ve been working on colors with Logi-Bear (and it’s a good review for Royal too!)   Logi-Bear is starting to potty train so I wanted to show him the difference between wet and dry (an idea I got from 3 Dinosaurs!).  I set up our…

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Math with Thomas the Tank Engine

When Baloo was younger he was really into Thomas the Tank Engine – really really into!  For 2 years the only thing he got for birthdays and Christmas was trains and tracks.  They haven’t been out in awhile, but now that we have some space they have been out every day for weeks!  Baloo loves…

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A is for Ambulance PreK and Tot School Round-Up

Royal is 3 years 10 months Logi-Bear is 23 months Zoomin’ Moving Alphabet Letter A Number 1 Color Red Sight Word the We recently purchased the All About Reading Pre-Reading level for Royal and wanted to start it right away.  The curriculum goes through the alphabet in ABC order, so I decided to start over…

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28 Days of Fine Motor Challenge–Week 4

I’m not going to sugar coat this – I’ve totally failed this challenge.  The past 3 weeks for my family has been a whirlwind of sickness (2 E.R. visits), followed by the loss of a family pet, and the loss of my grandmother.  We’ve spent more time just being together and trying to feel better…

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D is for Dump Truck–Zoomin’ Moving Alphabet

After a few weeks, I’m back on the ball and have letter D ready!  So here is D is for dump truck! Included in the pack: D is for Dump Truck coloring page Dot the D’s Stamp the D’s Connect the Dump Trucks Prepare for D Trace the D Prepare for 4 Trace the 4…

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31 Days of Simple Sensory

For March, Cassie from 3 Dinosaurs and I have decided to focus on simple sensory ideas!  We would like you to spend 30 minutes with your child doing simple sensory activities every day for 31 days! Sensory activities include anything that you use your senses for – taste, touch, smell, hearing, or seeing.  Activities that…

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