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Duck & Truck ck Easy Reader Book For Beginning Readers

ByErin October 18, 2016January 4, 2020

Getting kids excited about reading by themselves can be tricky. We spend years and years reading to them and they don’t want that to stop (and rightfully so) but sometimes that also means they resist reading by themselves. My kids are not really motivated readers. They take some prodding. But with easy reader books that…

Practice Averaging and Ordering Numbers with Trains!

ByErin October 16, 2016January 4, 2020

I have the harder time finding fun work for my older kids (especially Baloo, at 10). Sometimes he just wants something fun like his brothers! But if I make something just for him, I have two younger kids begging to join in. So when I can put something together that they can all use, it’s…

Dinosaur Letter Sounds for Learning to Read the Fun way

ByErin October 14, 2016January 4, 2020

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 Make a Word Printable for Easy Writing Practice

ByErin October 13, 2016January 4, 2020

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…

Dinosaur CVC Word Mats for Beginning Readers

ByErin October 12, 2016April 11, 2024

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 Venn Diagram for Learning Advanced Categorizing

ByErin October 11, 2016January 4, 2020

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

ByErin October 10, 2016January 4, 2020

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

ByErin October 9, 2016January 4, 2020

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

ByErin October 8, 2016January 4, 2020

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.

ByErin October 7, 2016January 4, 2020

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

ByErin October 6, 2016January 4, 2020

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

ByErin October 5, 2016October 20, 2020

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,…