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…
I’ve never been very good at Scrabble even though my mom is a whiz. I’m happy to get a 3 letter word down and she isn’t happy if she doesn’t get at least one BINGO in a game. We’re just on different Scrabble levels. So activities like making a word out of a bigger word…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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,…
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…
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…