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We love BOB Books! If you have a young reader who is just starting out, consider trying BOB Books. If Set 1 is too easy for your reader, you can jump in with BOB Books Set 2: Advancing Beginners. If you need to purchase BOB Books, consider going through my Amazon affiliate link! Thanks! These printables […]
We love BOB Books! If you have a young reader who is just starting out, consider trying BOB Books. If Set 1 is too easy for your reader, you can jump in with BOB Books Set 2: Advancing Beginners. If you need to purchase BOB Books, consider going through my Amazon affiliate link! Thanks! These printables […]
We love BOB Books! If you have a young reader who is just starting out, consider trying BOB Books. If Set 1 is too easy for your reader, you can jump in with BOB Books Set 2: Advancing Beginners. If you need to purchase BOB Books, consider going through my Amazon affiliate link! Thanks! These printables […]
We love BOB Books! If you have a young reader who is just starting out, consider trying BOB Books. If Set 1 is too easy for your reader, you can jump in with BOB Books Set 2: Advancing Beginners. If you need to purchase BOB Books, consider going through my Amazon affiliate link! Thanks! These printables […]
We love BOB Books! If you have a young reader who is just starting out, consider trying BOB Books. If Set 1 is too easy for your reader, you can jump in with BOB Books Set 2: Advancing Beginners. If you need to purchase BOB Books, consider going through my Amazon affiliate link! Thanks! These printables […]
We love BOB Books! If you have a young reader who is just starting out, consider trying BOB Books. If Set 1 is too easy for your reader, you can jump in with BOB Books Set 2: Advancing Beginners. If you need to purchase BOB Books, consider going through my Amazon affiliate link! Thanks! These printables […]
Yippee! The last set of printables in this series of Words to Color. Here is the set for letter /u/. Word families include: -uck, -un, and -ug. Just click on the image to grab your free printables. In case you missed the other sets: Word Family Fun Letter /a/ Word Family Fun Letter /e/ Word […]
Another set of words to color to help your student learn to read! This set includes words for these short /o/ sound families: -ot, -op, and -og. Just click on the image to download your free printables! In case you missed the other sets: Word Family Fun Letter /a/ Word Family Fun Letter /e/ Word […]
Here are more words to color to help your student on the road to reading! This is the /i/ family and includes words for these combos: -ig, -in, -ip, and -it. Just click on the image below to download the printables. In case you missed the other two sets: Word Family Fun Letter /a/ Word […]
Don't forget! There are lots of BOB Book Printables available now for Set 1. I will be posting Set 2 next week! Yippee! In the mean time, go check out some of these.
I'm trying. Trying to simplify things around here. You already read about my ridiculously simple lunch idea (that I heart so much). Here is another ridiculously simple idea. For school. For Simon. I printed out math ideas (red), writing-fine motor ideas (yellow), and learning to read ideas (green). I cut them up and stuffed them […]
We had a rich learning experience last week with The Legend of the Candy Cane unit study from Homeschool Share. Elijah's overlapping candy cane art ~ Both boys helped bake these Candy Cane Snowballs (sweet and yum). Here are some pages from Elijah's notebook. Elijah learned about alliteration, synonyms, legends, idioms, and he searched a […]
A few weeks ago Simon's co-op class learned all about owls. It started with a reading of Owl Moon by Jane Yolen. Salamonie Interperative Services sent us a special guest. She stunned the kids with a stuffed owl– a great horned owl. Our special guest also had a real owl. A REAL OWL. The kids […]
For December I decided to make something different than the regular Kindergarten Kits, so I put together two files of games. {we heart games!} The first file includes seven math games: Race to Twenty Find the Cookies Snowman Family Tally Clear the Board Penguin Knock-Out Christmas Cookie Graph Penguin Sums You can download these games […]
I {heart} this tale– The Story of Ferdinand. We started the week at co-op. I tried to give the kids a simple introduction to Spain. We talked about kings and queens and made crowns; we practiced bowing and curtsying {which was great fun!}. We learned Spanish color words and made little books. We also had […]
We've been nature studying our way through the Spectacular Spiders NaturExplorer Unit. Since Simon was so intrigued by these eight-legged crawlies, I made him a simple kindergarten kit. You can download the spider printables by clicking on the image below. You can find some fun spider school ideas on my Pinterest Board.
Here is a fun logic-mathy activity for your preschool or kindergarten student. Elijah has Colorku, and I was thinking it would be fun to have something similar (but simpler) for Simon. I found some printable things online, but I didn't want to use a bucket of colored ink. So, the idea for Paint Chip Sudoku […]
Simon implored me to create an ocean-themed Kindergarten Kit because he wanted to learn about creatures in the deep. The clip-art in the kit is mostly cute fish, but we read plenty of books about lantern fish, angler fish, and other horrifying creepiness lurking through the abyss! Sometimes the printing and cutting and laminating is […]
Simon loves to look for things; it’s fun for him. I like to capitalize on fun, so I created a few word hunts to help him learn some sight words (and to aid in practicing tally marks). Here’s what I did for this activity: 1. I wrote all the words on sticky notes and stuck […]
Eighteen months ago, I published a Learning with LEGO lapbook for my older son, Elijah. My younger son is now just as in love with LEGO as his older brother, so {this afternoon} I decided it was time to create a junior version. Simon is delighted! I will report back once we’ve built our brains […]