Confession: I hate teaching kids to read. HATE it! I remember with vivid clarity the first time I sat down with my son to try piecing together the sounds we had learned into simple words... I remember the frustration of doing the same words over and over and over again. With 5 young children, I always seem to have an emerging reader in the house, and I tend to put off reading lessons as long as possible. The problem is not my bookshelf... I have books. I have so many readers flooding my ... Read the Post
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Free Printable Copywork Mini Booklet: Adam and Eve
If you follow me, you will probably know that we recently dived right in to the Brave Writer lifestyle. It has changed (COMPLETELY) not only our homeschool, but also the entire dynamic of our home. School went from taking us all day long, often with a few bouts of tears and definitely a few moments me grinding my teeth to a pulp... to taking about an hour in the morning. Say what? You can read tons of reviews here or watch a video review in the sidebar on the right, for now let's talk about ... Read the Post
Free Dinosaur Coloring Pages
I put together this super cute bundle of free dinosaur coloring pages and copywork for your preschool/kindergarteners! My kids love to color, doesn't matter how old they are! The copywork at the bottom just adds a little element of "school" to these pages, and helps them learn their letters or if they are older, how to spell common dinosaur names. These dinosaur coloring pages are fun, simple, and easy. They are the perfect thing to store away for that camping trip coming up or the visit to ... Read the Post
Ocean Games: Learning through Play!
Come play some fun ocean games with us! This is our final week in our Ocean Commotion theme with Mother Goose Time and the last post in my series "whats in the box". To see the entire month, check out my other posts: Week 1 Week 2 Week 3 Week 4 These four posts are all contents of just 1 month with Mother Goose Time: a comprehensive preschool program (we also used it for kindergarten with a bit of supplementing). Within just a few months with this program my 5 year old went from not knowing ... Read the Post
Free Jellyfish Printable Book and Activity
This week we learned about jellyfish in our Mother Goose Time program. I have so many fun ideas and crafts and resources to share with you plus a free jellyfish book for you to print and make with your kids to learn more! Don't forget to pin this post for later! Make your own Jellyfish Hat! We started off by just talking about jellyfish together. Taking some time to discover what the kids knew or thought they knew, predicting, hypothesizing, etc. Then we were ready for our activities. First ... Read the Post
