If you’ve ever met someone who is wildly successful, you’ve met someone who knows how to set goals. Setting goals is an art form. To some, it comes naturally, to others it is learned. Luckily, anyone can learn how to set goals that will lead them to success. We’ve already covered setting S.M.A.R.T. goals for…
Winter is upon us and that means new toothbrushes! Sorry, that might not have made sense to you. We switch out toothbrushes every time the seasons change. It’s a simple reminder and keeps our toothbrushes fresh every 3 months. So when someone told me “Happy Winter” my first thought was ‘new toothbrushes’! Silly, right? That’s…
The second it gets cold, my kids want hot chocolate. Hot chocolate with marshmallows, of course. It doesn’t even get that cold here, but they want hot chocolate with marshmallows any chance they get! I thought it might be fun to do some hot chocolate themed learning, like hot chocolate short vowels! It’s actually going…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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”…
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…