Rhyming is a very important pre-reading skill. The ability to identify rhyming words can greatly help kids who are just learning to read. This monster set is a cute and fun way to work on rhyming words. Monster Nonsense Word Rhyming Monsters are one of my favorite themes – especially around Halloween time. While many…
Word problems can be a great way to help kids understand the context in which we use math. So often we teach math in an abstract way that it can be hard for kids (and adults) to understand how to use the concepts. Word problems aren’t the only way to illustrate the usefulness of math…
Skip counting is such a great math skill. It comes in handy in so many ways later – counting groups, addition, multiplication, when you have multiple kids and you need to get everything in multiples of 3… Let’s just say, I can skip count by 3s to a pretty high number at this point. Watch…
I love slime. Probably even more than my kids. There’s something just so relaxing about it. I knew when I saw this little witch that she was meant to be a slime witch. So that’s what she became. The Fun of Slime If I’m being honest, I don’t know why I love slime so much….
Years and years ago, Baloo asked me to make addition with candy corn so I did, and he loved it. Its one of those things that we pull out every single year and enjoy. Royal and Logi-Bear love it now too, but Baloo is well beyond that. But he still loves Candy Corn (he’s crazy, although I…
Today I learned that ‘beaucoup’ is a real French word and it’s not spelled boocoos or bookoos. It’s amazing what information you can glean from Google. So today we have ‘Boo-coups’ of Halloween Printables to share! You may well be aware that Cassie of 3Dinosaurs.com and I have been working on 31 Days of Printables…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…