Looking for a handy visual alphabet reference for your students? I’ve created this for Tinker Bell so she has something on her desk that she can look at when working on her handwriting. I’ve found that keeping something close by really helps in proper letter formation. If they can’t quite…
That’s right, the Teeny Tot has her own workboxes and she’s all about having fun new activities in them each day. I know I’ve mentioned this before, but for us, involving our Teeny Tot in our school makes her feel important and also gives her some “special” activities just for…
Holy Cow! Can anyone tell me where 2011 went? The last thing I remember was sometime in August when school started…after that everything is a blurr…. Well, apparently it’s time for the November Monthly Meal Plan, and I have to say I love doing winter menus! Yummy-warm-comfort food is…
I know it’s silly, but I’ve seriously always wanted an Estimation Station for our school room! I mean how fun! We participate in a monthly Boy’s Lego club and Science day. Each month our host has a little jar filled with something that the kids get to estimate. Whoever is…
This week we had the pleasure of reviewing the Grammar 500 Game from Educational Insights. Grammar 500 is a fun, educational game that covers 100 grammar, punctuation, and capitalization questions. To play the game, each person reads the top card in their stack silently. Then they put a tire on…
Oh my heavens were the kids excited to see the Dino Dig Velociraptor kit show up at our house today! The awesome folks at Educational Insights sent it for our review, and I was begged daily to let them try it out. I wanted to wait for a nice day…
Welcome to New Jersey, The Garden State! This is our 7th state so far on our United States tour. Of course we located Trenton, NJ on our Wall Map after reviewing all of the states we’ve learned so far. Here are some of the things we learned about this…
Welcome to our World’s Greatest Artist study on Van Gogh! Vincent Van Gogh was born in 1853 in the southern Netherlands. He had many jobs, but was most noted for his work as a Dutch post-impressionist painter. He was known for the emotional impact created by the use of…
We received a couple of Learning Fun With Felt kits today from Betty Luken, and the kids totally love them! As soon as they got here, they started playing. I actually had to set a timer so they could take turns due to high demand. They sent us the Under…
Welcome to Teeny Tot Tuesday! This week I wasn’t as organized as I like to be, so I was grabbing at things kind of randomly this week. The Teeny Tot didn’t seem to care as long as it looked fun she was game. This is a wooden number puzzle I…
