Each month this year I am working on three big goals that break into smaller goals to make it happen. I write these post to keep me working on my goals. I can always look back and see what I got done and did not get done with them. They keep me honest with my…
Bugs are always a favorite theme for the spring! We always have so much fun with them. I know that people have been loving the counting books and I thought it was time for a bug-themed one! Today I have a free ladybug counting book with matching chart. The Ladybug Number Counting Book & Chart…
I’m always amazed at how many great books come out each month. There are more books that we can keep track of at times. We love them all and are always looking new ones. We have a mix of books from the library and the store. Why do we look for books at in the…
I know that not all kids learn well with flashcards. I have one that loves having as many hands-on activities as she can to learn. I’m was always looking for new ideas for her. Playdough mats became an easy way to work on her words without struggling for something beyond just reading the cards. We…
Butterfly crafts are one of our favorite crafts during spring. We just love butterflies and have so much fun with them. We are always looking for new ideas for them. We have been on a wreath kick at our house. We have had so much fun making different ones of them. Today I have a…
I know that my girls always loved having books to work on things. They made learning fun for them. We enjoyed the ABC Interactive Letter Books. They made learning tons of fun. Now I have something to go along with those books Interactive Number Books. These are fun books that can be used all year…
Today I have a fun introduction to all the Trace Find and Color Printables. These are a great way to work on learning to read by tracing words and finding the matching picture for the words. The no-prep printable puts two skills together with the coloring and tracing. It is great to mix of skills…
Spring has so many great ideas to study. I love having the Sequencing card sets to help with that study. They work so well for different ages and types of learning. These sets all work great around Earth Day or just great spring activities. I love that you have such a variety that works for…
It almost feels like spring here and to help us feel more like springtime we are doing a few crafts. We did a fun Winter Birch tree and to help with spring we are making a spring version! We love simple projects that everyone can do and often times can be done in just a…
Earth Day is coming soon, and we wanted to do something fun for it. My girls have loved different earth day crafts. The earth we live on is such an amazing place. I’m always looking for fun new projects for us to do for Earth Day. Today we have a twist on the torn paper…
Earth Day has so many great themes that you can do with it. You can recycling, trees, plants and more. I love that you can work on learning a lot during that time. I have three number color and trace worksheets that are great for Earth Day: general Earth Day, Garden, and Flowers. I wanted…
Spring is here and there are so many great sequencing ideas for spring. We love baseball at our house and I thought a mini set for it would be great! These are fun ways to work on learning a sequence with a bit of writing thrown in. This is a simple activity for hitting a…
It always seems that numbers are something we work on in the early years. I am always looking for new ways to work on those numbers. Puzzles are a get activity for kids to learn numbers. Today I have the free baseball-themed number puzzles. They are a great way for kids to match numbers and…
When kids are learning to read there are so many fun ways to go about it. I know that my girls have always enjoyed hands-on learning as well as worksheets. We do like to mix it up. Double consonant words are often called CVCC words. They are words that end with two consonants together. There…
Arrays are one way to start learning multiplication. You learn about columns and rows and how that works into the equations. We have been doing some starting of multiplication at our house and I thought it would be fun to have something new for it! Today I have a baseball-themed array task cards with matching…
I love the changes in seasons because we are working with new themes. Baseball is a favorite. Plus has been one people have asked if I would do. Baseball has so many fun things you can work on. We are always looking for new ways to change up activities. Today I have some fun free…
Spring is here and baseball is a favorite sport at our house! We are always having fun with it. We have so much fun watching the games. Since baseball season just started I thought I would have some fun with some new baseball printables for it! This is going to be such a fun week!…
Flowers and rain have always been a favorite theme for us during the spring. We love doing activities with them. I have had requests for more ten frame activities. I wanted to make fun ones for spring because we are in spring now! I love that using ten frames builds up to learn to do…
We love spring. It is one of our favorite times! We are always looking for new spring activities to do. One of our favorite crafts the last few years has been done with washi tape. We have a fun collection that we have been using. We have not had spring here yet but we are…
This CVCC word family printable has “nk” ending words like ank words, ink words, onk words, and unk words. It is always great to start off with some of the -nk cards and write the -nk words. I love having different CVCC ending blends for kids to work on. The CVCC ANK, INK, ONK, UNK…
I love having goals because they push me to get more done. Plus by sharing what my goals are I am better at getting them done. I read a quote on facebook about hoping that your kids are the ones that take time to look at the moon. I’ve thought a lot about that since…
Picture books are something you use well beyond preschool and kindergarten. We love books and my girls are older. We always look for picture books ever time we are in the bookstore or library. This month I have a collection of some of our favorite books we read during the month. Now that everyone is…
I love having no-prep to mix in with the hands-on. Mainly because I don’t always have time to prep an activity. At times I just want something simple and easy to do without anything complex about it. At that is I have today a fun activity with blends for Easter! We love the spin and…
I love using puzzles to learn with! Today I have something new with numbers and puzzles! I know that my girls love puzzles and I’m always looking for ways to put puzzles into our learning. We have Easter themed number word puzzles! Puzzles are a great way to make spelling activities hands-on! These are so…
Every now and then I just love having a no-prep worksheet that I don’t have to prep or do anything with. I just print and use! That is what I have today. It is a free Easter Egg themed spin and trace shapes. We did a Christmas Tree shape tracing and loved it. And I…
Easter is always a fun time! I always look forward to it. It has so many fun spring type words. I thought it would be fun to add some new pages for kids to work on their ABCs. Today I have some free Easter ABC tracing pages. They are pages that focus on one letter…
Word paths have to be on my favorite learn to read tools. There are so many different ways you can use them. I like having them as apart of our literacy learning centers. We always have fun using these in our learning. It is fun to follow the different word ending through the word maze….
Ten Frames are one of my favorite ways to learn with kids. There are so many ways you can use the cards. I like having a mix of hands-on and no-prep to work with. It is one great thing about these activity sets. They have activities to meet the needs of different kids. Today I…
Easter is almost here and it is fun to have new number sheets to use. I love the number color and trace because it gives kids a set pattern they can get used to. Easter has some themes like eggs, baskets, bunnies, and jellybeans. I could not pick just one theme to do so I…
As you progress and learn you are always working on different types of activities. One of those math skills you learn is about even and odd numbers. My youngest is just starting to learn this at school. It is not always easy to learn new ideas. I love it when I can make something fun…