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 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”…
Have you ever taken one of those “Can you name the 50 states” types of tests? Did you do well? I’ve always enjoyed geography, and for the most part, I’m pretty good at naming the states and capitals, and being able to locate the states. I even know that Alaska is in fact up…
Do you ever take a break to focus on one subject? We’re taken a break right now to focus on memorizing math facts. It’s been something we’ve worked on but right now we are focused on that. The holidays tend to mean less learning anyhow, so I thought I’d make a more manageable goal for…
Sillyness wins in our house, how about yours? Anything silly and funny is hit and easily aids the learning process. My kids are as silly as they come and it’s a good thing, because they have very silly parents. So when we can do a silly exercise and call it school work and educational, we’re…
We have been working diligently on our spelling (translate that to, they want to write messages on signs in Minecraft and I refuse to help them spell words…so they must learn spelling) so I’ve been working on some activities to help push the spelling along. Make a Word activities are great because it’s really more…
Math. I can hear the groaning already. So many people dislike math with a passion. Math is abstract and difficult and they keep changing how we teach math! But it doesn’t have to be that way. Math can be hands on and concrete and fun. Hands on math is the way to make math…