You know that moment when you’ve spent ages teaching something and your kid gets it? You can see it ‘click’ in their eyes? Possibly the best moments, ever. I absolutely love those moments and they’re one part of what makes homeschooling so worth it to me. (I’d be willing to bet that teachers know that…
Kids don’t typically like doing the same thing over and over, right? That’s one problem I ran into with Logi-Bear (and the others, to be honest) with a lot of techniques I tried. He liked activities the first time, maybe even the second time. After that he was done. But we cannot just quit. That’s…
Kids naturally love learning but I’ve found, at least with the younger ages, nonfiction books can be a bit overwhelming. The information often doesn’t read like a normal book and kind of just has little blurbs randomly spread over the page. My kids don’t often pick up nonfiction books, and I think that has something…
Learning to read can be a really difficult task. But by making it fun, it’ll seem a lot easier. Each of the boys has presented a unique way of learning to read. So far they’ve all approached it differently. Baloo went with the method where he wouldn’t do anything and then one day he could…
Frog Emergent Reader: All About Frogs. Royal loves non-fiction writing, especially when it comes to animals. I knew he’d love a little book with a few facts about frogs. Even better, I knew I could throw in a bit of vocabulary. So I put this together with him in mind. Its got a lot…
Learn to Read for free or nearly free! Resources for learning how to read. I really enjoyed putting together the free and nearly free math resources and wanted to continue with other subjects. Learning to Read is not an easy task and many kids want to learn before they are ready to sit down with…
Trucks were one of the first obsessions my kids had. Trucks and trains and anything else mechanical that moved. It’s only natural that they needed some transportation-themed rhyming materials. Truck Themed Rhyming Mats Combining a transportation theme with a lesson on rhymes was a hit with my kids. Teaching them to rhyme was a challenge each…
Dinosaurs are IN right now. And as such, everything we are doing is dinosaur right now. Dinosaur math. Dinosaur ABCs. Dinosaur play. Dinosaur excavating. Dinosaurs have been a major theme that comes into and out of our lives regularly. Baloo, at 13, still enters dinosaur phases every now and again. So naturally Logi-Bear needed a…
We’ve started working more on beginning letter sounds and I’m doing my best to make it active and fun. Logi-Bear is not big on sitting and learning. So getting up and moving and playing games is the goal! The idea behind this ABC Scavenger hunt is that the letters on the hearts were the beginning…
I’ve been printing out letter books for Logi-Bear and he absolutely loves them. He “reads” them and just enjoys them so much. So I thought it was time to introduce some really early easy readers. Very simple. Very repetitive. Pictures that give context clues. I just know he is going to love reading like his…
I love activities that make learning fun (and I hope that is obvious! Fun is IN!). So printables that involve using a magnifying glass? Totally awesome. I love I Spy Sight Words! I’ve been including these in my packs, but I wanted to make a set especially for Christmas. I used Primer sight words for…
We’ve been working with the ABCs with Logi-Bear for awhile. And seeing as I love doing holiday things, I figured we needed some holiday themed ABC pages to work on! There are 13 packs total with 5 pages for each pack. Each pack features a different letter. No, I didn’t manage to do all…