I’ve been on a journey to make learning to read more fun. Reading scavenger hunts, playing games like sight word smack… games always make learning fun! This week we turned a favorite game, Simon Says, into a reading game. Before starting our game, I carefully wrote out several simple directions on strips of […]
DIY Lego Board Game
Legos are super popular with kids. They are so popular, in fact, that you can find numerous activities using them in school settings. We even made a unit for our homeschool year based on the colorful bricks. One of our activities during school this week was creating this fun DIY Lego Board game. It’s just one […]
Early Reading Scavenger Hunt
I love to read. My husband loves to read. Our son loves books and is excited to finally be starting to read. The other day my daughter caught me off guard with, “Mommy, I hate just sitting and trying to sound out words.” I could have panicked, I mean, how can she hate […]
Top Posts of 2014
It is always fun to see which posts were the most popular at the end of the year! This year I changed the focus of the blog a bit, leaning more towards kids crafts and learning activities than ever before. Not surprisingly, almost all of the top 10 posts written in 2014 […]
Candy Learning Activities
This year Halloween was cold and wet! The kids wound up with tons of candy, though. (I think the weather made people extra generous.) Instead of letting all that candy go to waste (or eating it all at once), I’m planning a homeschool unit full of learning activities using candy. Over the past […]