Gobble Gobble: Turkey Spin a Sight Word Printables
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Gobble Gobble: Turkey Spin a Sight Word Printables

ByErin

What do you do with a child who thinks reading is amazing, pretends to read constantly, yet isn’t quite ready for sounding out words? You teach them sight words! I’m pretty much on board with teaching phonics and that’s how we taught both Royal and Baloo, primarily. We limit sight words and push through with…

Transportation Counting Mats with Addition and Subtraction
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Transportation Counting Mats with Addition and Subtraction

ByErin

What do you do when you want to get your young kids excited about math?  You find a theme that resonates with them and find a way to incorporate math into that theme!  Last week we did dinosaurs, which was wildly popular at my house.  Transportation themes come in a close second.  And I just…

Transportation CVC Sliders for Learning to Read Fun
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Transportation CVC Sliders for Learning to Read Fun

ByErin

It’s time for a new theme and one of my favorites – transportation!  All week long we will have a great assortment of transportation printables!  Don’t miss any by either signing up for the newsletter: Or by keeping an eye on the 31 Days of Printables page!   This is another printable I made just…

Dinosaur Letter Sounds for Learning to Read the Fun way
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Dinosaur Letter Sounds for Learning to Read the Fun way

ByErin

People all learn in different ways, right? I was the kid in school who pretty much always learned new concepts quickly.  I am the person the public school system is designed for.  My kids are not.  They’re not slow learners they just don’t learn that way.  Earlier this year I found Times Tales, which is…

Dinosaur CVC Word Mats for Beginning Readers
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Dinosaur CVC Word Mats for Beginning Readers

ByErin

How do you get your kids interested and invested in reading? I’ve mentioned it a million times now, but again, Logi-Bear is so close to reading.  He wants to read and happily works with me, but I feel like he still needs a bit more work with letter sounds before he’s truly ready.  But I…

Dinosaur Handwriting Booklets for Learning to Write
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Dinosaur Handwriting Booklets for Learning to Write

ByErin

Handwriting isn’t really a big focus for us in homeschooling but I do want my kids to be able to write legibly.  I have horrible handwriting and always have.  In fact, my first bad grade was handwriting in 3rd grade.  I cried…a lot.  Some people have good handwriting and some people don’t.  So my goal…

Vampire CVC Matching Free Printable
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Vampire CVC Matching Free Printable

ByErin

I’ve never been big on mythological things until I started reading books like Harry Potter and Twilight (yes, I read and loved Twilight.  Although, The Host by Stephenie Meyer is far far better).  Anyway, after getting into some of these alternate realities I started enjoying reading about the myths and how they started.  Vampire’s in…

Spooky Spider Counting Mats for Math Practice
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Spooky Spider Counting Mats for Math Practice

ByErin

Spiders creep me out.  I don’t like them and would just assume never ever see them.  However, they do eat mosquitoes for which I am eternally grateful.  It’s a conflicting relationship.  But the boys are still into creep crawly stuff so I oblige.  We actually went to a bug festival a few weekends ago which…

Pokemon Movement Cards – Get the Wiggles Out
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Pokemon Movement Cards – Get the Wiggles Out

ByErin

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…

Learn to Read with Fall Beginning Sounds Printable
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Learn to Read with Fall Beginning Sounds Printable

ByErin

It does not feel like fall here.  Not even close.  We don’t really get fall at all but I feel like it’s time to start celebrating the leaves changing, pumpkins, and snuggling on the couch.  So these fall beginning sounds cards are helping me to get into the fall mood. Logi-Bear is my last child…