When it comes to math, having physical objects you can move, or manipulate, often helps kids to better understand the problem. At home your child can use small cars, erasers, and buttons to help solve addition and subtraction problems. We love using playdough for subtraction! Your child will have fun creating these homemade base 10 math manipulatives, […]
Encouraging Good Behavior: Reward Store
When we started homeschooling this year I wanted to have some type of reward system in place. At first I made a sticker chart where they could earn small rewards each week. Then I came up with something a little more concrete: our Reward Store. I’ve found that having something more concrete […]
Teaching How to Write and Draw Shapes
I’ve mentioned before that my son likes to do things his way. If I try to tell him how to write a letter the right way, he turns me off. Tells me I am wrong. Gets mad. Let’s just say it isn’t pretty. I’ve drawn a lot of dotted letters for him to […]
Easter Quiet Time Boxes
Our Christmas quiet time bags were such a hit (seriously, every time I try to pack them up they get them back out), that I thought I’d make a couple Easter/spring ones to put in our quiet time bag rotation. It was easy to recreate some of the original ideas from the Christmas […]
Berenstains’ B Book
It’s been a while since I posted about fun we’ve had with a book we’ve read… Trust me, it’s not that we haven’t been reading, or that we haven’t been having some fun with our books! Things have finally settled down around here, and this week I want to share one of my […]
