5 Santa Shape Activities for Preschoolers
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5 Santa Shape Activities for Preschoolers

What shape theme is more fun than Santa? He’s a big jolly fellow, even when his face is shaped like a trapezoid. My kids have always welcomed any activity that involves playdough. And generally, any hands-on activity. I’m all about bringing fun into learning. I know when I saw these shape Santa’s that they needed…

Christmas Mini Eraser Math Sets for Santa and Candy Canes
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Christmas Mini Eraser Math Sets for Santa and Candy Canes

Don’t have the mini erasers? No problem! There’s a page at the back where you can print your own. Print on cardstock so they’re thick enough to withstand use! But check Target to see if they still have some!   Mini erasers have become one of our biggest motivators in learning. My kids love them….

Forgetful Santa Easy Reader and Game for Christmas Fun
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Forgetful Santa Easy Reader and Game for Christmas Fun

Do you ever get that warm feeling, the small smile, when you suddenly encounter a memory from your childhood? When I was a kid, one of my mom’s favorite movies was Dave.  There is one scene where Dave (the President) visits a school and the class is showing off an activity called Poor Joe.  Joe…

Christmas Find and Dot the Sums
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Christmas Find and Dot the Sums

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…

Roll a Silly Christmas Sentence
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Roll a Silly Christmas Sentence

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…

Christmas Letter Sound Practice with Clip Cards
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Christmas Letter Sound Practice with Clip Cards

As we continue to work on new ways to practice letter sounds, I keep thinking about how important learning phonics can be to a beginning reader.  They need all the extra review to make sure they can read letter sounds quickly.  Otherwise, sounding out words becomes very challenging.  So we will practice, practice, practice and…

Santa Sight Word Spin It for Fun Sight Word Practice
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Santa Sight Word Spin It for Fun Sight Word Practice

Is anyone else having trouble getting their kids to concentrate already? We’ve hit this moment before where the excitement of the holidays makes school work impossible.  I just don’t remember it happening so soon!  I’m going to have to pull out all the stops with holiday themed work so we don’t lose ground in December! …

Hands On Christmas Place Value Practice
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Hands On Christmas Place Value Practice

My kids like to throw things.  Not just me, right? A lot of parents put their “throw-ey” kids in sports, but mine don’t like sports.  They still want to throw things though. So I give them dice in school because it knocks out two problems.  1. They get to throw things and no one gets…

Santa’s Helper Subtraction Game – Christmas Subtraction Game
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Santa’s Helper Subtraction Game – Christmas Subtraction Game

My kids have started asking for more of these simple math games!  So of course I said yes!  We end up only playing them a few days, but that’s perfect!  They don’t get bored of them in the few times we play but they still get a lot of extra practice!  I felt like a…

Santa Clip Cards for Comparing Numbers
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Santa Clip Cards for Comparing Numbers

Have you ever been the mom of the kid who tells other kids that Santa isn’t real? Confession: We don’t do Santa in our house.  It’s a long story but we just don’t do Santa.  However, they do understand that others “do Santa” and we try to respect that.  However, Baloo (10) also likes to…