Winter-Themed Prewriting and Shape Activities
Today I’m sharing our winter prewriting activities for preschoolers. Our kids have enjoyed these pages and we are excited to show them to you!
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Books | Homeschool | Preschool
Picture Books About Christmas
Today I’m sharing our favorite picture books about Christmas. There is something so delightfully enchanting about the holiday season when you have little ones to share it with. They bring such wonder to every aspect from the decorating the tree to preparing festive treats. Whether you are reading Christmas books as part of your Christmas…
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Books | Homeschool | Preschool
Picture Books about Thanksgiving
November is our month to learn about gratitude, family, fall, and fun. Taking advantage of the teaching opportunities that come along with this month, I wanted to share our favorite picture books about Thanksgiving. Most of these books were library finds for us, because I couldn’t find many among our own collection that were specifically…
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Benefits of Reading Aloud to Your Kids
In the Read-Aloud Handbook by Jim Trelease, he says, “The single most important activity for building the knowledge required for eventual success in reading is reading aloud to children.”
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Printable Spanish Alphabet Cards and Charts- (Targetas del alfabeto)
We are introducing Spanish to our kids this year in our home school. In addition to our Interactive Spanish Learning Folder, we are using these Spanish Alphabet Cards to create a foundation for the basics.
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Letter of the Week- Thrifty Resources for Letter Recognition
Adopting a letter for a week is a super easy way to teach the alphabet along with all it’s sounds. Here are a few of our favorite resources to teach these concepts.
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Gentle Phonics- Printable Interactive Literacy Folder
When I taught Jovie to read, we used Alpha Phonics, as well as, the Bob Books. She is a great reader now, and even better than that, she loves it. Here is the gentle phonic-printable interactive folder that we are using.
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Printable Spanish Interactive Learning Folder
Today I’m sharing a printable Spanish Interactive Learning Folder. We are introducing Spanish this year to our kids. Though my husband and I took Spanish in high school, we are planning to learn right alongside them.
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Printable Alphabet Cards
This summer is flying by. My intentions to continue even the slightest of organized schooling throughout the summer has gone by the wayside and has been replaced with swim lessons, vacations, day trips, outdoor fun, and extra play with cousins. I don’t feel bad though, because as Charlotte Mason so wisely said, “Why be indoors,…
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Indoor Scavenger Hunts for Kids
We are on our last rainy stretch before our summer sun comes to stay. The kids have been a little restless indoors, so I came up with this set of Indoor Scavenger Hunts. Not just for fun (I hope), but a series of cognitive exercises that will really get them thinking…
