Welcome to Massachusetts! We’re doing great on our Road Trip USA trek this year and the kids are doing great learning about our wonderful USA! We started off this week with the Teeny Tot quizzing everyone on the states they’ve learned so far. Then she located Boston, MA on our…
Since it is fall, I thought I’d pull out my Pumpkin Preschool Printables for the Teeny Tot! If you aren’t familiar already, these printables are part of my Letter of the Week curriculum. With the harvest coming I reminded my children about the real harvest. We learned Matthew 9:37-38 “Then…
Hi everyone! I’ve had several requests to make a Calendar Printables Set, so here it is! I’m excited to present my Gingham Calendar Days! Click below to download: Gingham Calendar Days Part 1 Gingham Calendar Days Part 2 (NOTE: If you are having troubles getting the file to download, please…
It’s here! It’s finally here! Today we received an iPad2 and everyone is excited! So just to show how necessary this purchase was, I wanted to share some great educational iPad Apps with you today! Although I think it’s a fun thing to have around in general, the truth is…
Hi everyone! I’m so excited! The 7th Annual Homeschool Blog Award Nominations are now OPEN! Make sure to click the above button and head over to nominate your favorite blogs! You can nominate one blog per category, so there is a lot of love you can send to…
So today, I have another fun little giveaway from Educational Insights for you! Smens Scented Pens! The Smens from Educational Insights have become our latest summer school motivating tool! We’ve been using them to complete our Summer Bridge Activities from Carson Dellosa. We do a lesson each day and the…
As the winner of the 2010 Best Mom Blog, I’m super excited to see all of the 2011 Homeschool Blog Nominees! Each year there is a list of amazing homeschool blogs, including new blogs as well! It’s a wonderful resource for ideas, inspiration, and a great way to give a…
As I mentioned this week in our Road Trip USA Maryland post, we learned about the Maryland Skip Jack boats, then made our own version! The Skipjack was designated the official state boat of Maryland in 1985. Skipjacks are the last working boats in the US, they are used…
Here are some things we learned about this week: Located Annapolis, MD on our Wall Map Read National Geographic US Atlas and located Annapolis, MD using the mapping grid Reviewed the first two verses of the next verse to our 50 States and Capitals Song Learned about the Mason-Dixon…
We’ve finally started on our Young Scientist Kits for the year and the kids are loving the experiments. Kit #1 includes 3 separate activities, this one has Recycling, Scientific Measurement, and Magnets. The first activity we did was on Recycling. This kit discussed the importance of recycling. The…
