Some mornings I can tell we need to get a bit of The Wiggles out. Incidentally, my kids no longer like they song (which is a bummer because I loved it). So I needed a quick and easy way to get them moving a bit before we get started. Of course, I remembered my construction…
Logi-Bear is so desperate to catch up to his brothers in school work that he is trying to sneak-learn multiplication. I’m not even kidding. He tries to eavesdrop on our multiplication lessons. He insisted on playing the HoliMaths Multiplication game with us. But he still needs the basics and I’m having to find ways to…
Logi-Bear is starting to learn some more diverse methods of addition and subtraction and I’m trying to keep up with him. He is a motivated learner and just does not need much instruction. But I have fun making things so I do. I’m hoping this hands on pumpkin number line will grab his attention! …
My kids hate math and sometimes that makes me feel like a failure. Okay that was a bit dramatic, but not far from the truth. Baloo really hates math and I often feel like I have failed him in that area. He’s not bad at math (although it’s also not his strength) but he does…
I am a bibliophile to the core (that’s ‘book lover’ for those of us who like to appear fancy) and always expected that my kids would automatically be book lovers, too. I thought that would just be genetic. And while my kids do love books, it took time and effort to get us to that…
Arrrrr matey’s! It be that time o’ year again. Yep, talk like a pirate day is coming. Funny fact – when I was in high school one of my besties and I had a note journal. We would (secretly) write notes to each other during class and pass off the notebook. It never failed that…
Logi-Bear is just starting to get into addition so we’ve explored many different ways of demonstrating addition visually. Math is such an abstract concept. I believe to truly grasp math you have to understand what is happening first. So we started with combining groups of objects (if I have 2 cars and you have 1…
It’s officially time to get ready for fall. Which apparently means everything pumpkin. Now, I love pumpkin spice lattes as much as the next person, but I do have my pumpkin limits. This adorable pumpkin time telling clocks were not past my limit though. Let’s face it, learning to read analog clocks is not the…
Practicing our math facts, addition and multiplication, has been a big priority over here lately. We have been using every technique I could possibly think of! Mostly games, of course. But I wanted something that was a bit more portable, fun, engaging, and that they could really own. So I had to make interactive booklets….
I can not believe I am teaching addition and subtraction to my 3rd (and last) child. I still remember teaching Baloo how to add. It’s not possible that so much time has passed, right? Logi-Bear was probably not even born when we first started this journey in math! Ahh. Anyway, long long ago I made…
My kids hate writing. I hear this from parents and teachers over and over and over. My kids hate writing. Typically people mean the physical act of writing, not the process of thinking of words to put on a paper. And this activity handles the physical act without the process part. My kids will dictate…
LEGO is the key to all learning. Okay, not literally, but my kids flip out when I grab the LEGO Bricks during school time. They get so excited. So of course we had to do LEGO Place Value when that topic came up! Let me back up a bit. I took a challenge to minimalize…