Dinosaur Venn Diagram for Learning Advanced Categorizing
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Dinosaur Venn Diagram for Learning Advanced Categorizing

ByErin

When kids are little they work on sorting all the time but it’s one of those subjects that just gets left behind.  However, sorting can become so very complex.  Venn diagrams are great for people who learn visually.  Venn diagrams themselves are not that complex but it helps to introduce them using familiar ideas.  Being…

Dinosaur Syllable Challenge Cards for Kids
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Dinosaur Syllable Challenge Cards for Kids

ByErin

Sometimes you discover an activity that is perfect for your child in every way.  It can be a very rare occasion, but when you find it, you have to just do it.  Logi-Bear loves dinosaurs, wants to learn to read, has been enjoying sorting into syllable “teams”, and really likes having little cards and booklets…

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…

Dinosaur Place Value and Other Math Fun
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Dinosaur Place Value and Other Math Fun

ByErin

There is something magical when kids learn that numbers move in patterns and they really only need to know 0-9.  Showing kids the pattern of 10s unlocks a new world of math but it’s kind of confusing.  Or really confusing.  We recently tried to show Logi-Bear how 9 to 10 is just like 19 to…

Roll a Halloween Sentence for Silly Grammar Fun.
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Roll a Halloween Sentence for Silly Grammar Fun.

ByErin

Grammar is a really dry subject and I’m going to go ahead and admit that I don’t think I ever actually listened to my teachers when they talked about grammar. For the most part, I could write how I talk and get away with it (I do the same thing now too).  Honestly, I didn’t…

Spooky Halloween SuDoKu Free Printable for Kids
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Spooky Halloween SuDoKu Free Printable for Kids

ByErin

Halloween signals the beginning of the holiday season and my kids, at least, are eager to get knee deep into holiday things.  Luckily, I’ve had the Halloween printables this week to satisfy their holiday excitement!  They’ve already changed their mind about their Halloween costumes about 4 times each.  Baloo has decided to save a bunch…

Halloween Vowel Team Easy Reader for oo
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Halloween Vowel Team Easy Reader for oo

ByErin

For my 5-year-old, being a non-reader is one of his biggest frustrations (following when I tell him to get off video games).  He feels left out because the rest of us can read and he cannot.  I like to leave little notes lying around with words that he can read .  (Cat, t-rex, his name,…

LEGO Skip Counting to Avoid Confusion
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LEGO Skip Counting to Avoid Confusion

ByErin

My kids have, historically, had the hardest time with skip counting.  I swear, they’ve all given me the same look when I try to explain skip counting.  Kind of like “This is so much harder than just counting by 1’s”.  That really skeptical look, ya know?. And I get it, they just learned to count…

Doubles Addition Game – Frankenstein Addition Practice
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Doubles Addition Game – Frankenstein Addition Practice

ByErin

You want them to memorize their addition facts and they want to play. Just imagine if there was a way to do both. Ah but there is!  Making addition fact practice a game can entice them to play and learn longer!  We’ve done our fair share of addition games (St. Patricks Day Make 10, Finding Dory,…

Jack O Lantern Fractions Practice Printables
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Jack O Lantern Fractions Practice Printables

ByErin

We are going to end up carving 6 pumpkins this year, I just know it.  I got all excited when I saw pumpkins in the store last week and we bought some.  Halloween is a month away still!  There is simply no way these will last that long.  The holidays have already got me thinking…

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…