It is a fun time again. Our author for this months book club is Leo Lionni! There are so many fun books of his to read. This is also the second time that he has been featured for the Virtual Book Club. One of our favorite books is by far Swimmy. We had so much…
I can’t believe that June is already almost here. May was very slow and yet busy at the same time. I’m have been looking forward to June for a while. It will be when the girls are out of school and the start of summer. I’m hoping for a great and relaxing time. It is…
Each month we have a fun time looking for books. We always try and have a mix of books that we found at the store and at the library. We have a good mix of books for this month. I love to see what fun books the girls pick out. They each have favorites from…
The summer is here soon and it is time for the summer programs! This year Royal Baloo and I decided to update one of the older programs. This was means that we are adding Third Grade to last years Summer Program: Build Up Summer Learning! If you used the program last year you can use…
Blends are really fun to learn but can be hard. We love adding different ways to learn them. The coloring pages are one of my girls review or learn their blends. Blends are started in first grade but these are a great review for older kids as well. I’m always trying to review and build…
This is the 13th pack in the Romping & Roaring Number Packs. There are 33 sets in the Romping & Roaring Number Packs. It has a Little Red Hen theme to the pack. This Romping & Roaring Number 9 Pack is part of the huge set. There are 33 packs total and 11 extras that…
Summer time is here for a lot of people! It is time to get started on summer reading. We really have a lot of fun reading during the summer. Every summer we have different goals about our reading. To help out with our goals I have some new reading charts to help out! I have…
This months theme is Caldecott Medal Books. There are so many different books to pick from! We really had a hard time just picking one book. There are so many books to pick from. You can see some of our favorites in the introduction post. We decided to pick one from the honor section. We…
Ocean is one of our favorite things during the summer. We love to study the ocean. There is so much to learn. The Ocean Calendar Set has been update for 2015! We love having the calendar cards. This set also goes nicely with the Ocean Pack. It is fun and easy to use. I use…
The summer is coming and it is time for a few fun Summer themed printables! We really have been busy with our CVC and CVCC word family learning. One of our favorite themes of the summer is Beach! I thought we would have some fun with some beach writing and word families. This is a…
We have had so much fun playing with the rocks. We pull out the sensory bin almost every day. We looked at all the different rocks. My oldest made a comment about if light would go through them. I thought this would be a great science experiment about if they would or not. This is…
Every spring we have a fun trip out to look at nature. We have a ton of fun with it. There is so much you can look at. There are so many different changes in spring that make it fun. This makes for fun hands on learning without really knowing they are learning. I thought…
We love to play games with my flashcards. There are so many different ways you can do this. We took the cards we made in the CVC Word Sorting by Vowel and made a fun game with them. This makes another fun and easy way to review the words that you are working on. This…
My girls love going to art museums. Every time we go we do something different. This time we went and did a shape search. It is always fun. There are always so many different things to look for when you go to the museum. Shapes are always fun to look for. You can be creative…
We had a hard time picking between the three book. It was hard. We love all the book by Eric Carle. Since we are just starting the explore flower and outside this year I thought it would be fun to do a flower activity. We read the book The Tiny Seed (The World of Eric…
We have reached Third of the Number Review Packs. This is the 12th pack of the Romping & Roaring Number Packs. The themes from the first 4 packs are mixed together in this review pack – 5: Princess, 6: Outside, 7: Dragon, 8: Dinosaur. This is the second review set with 5, 6, 7, 8….
This months Poppins Book Nook is a great theme! I know that as i have looked through the book list that there are a ton of great book. We own a few and have read many others. They have been give this award since 1938! So there are years of books to pick from. Plus…
Over the last few weeks I’ve had a lot of time to think about what does it mean to be a mom. I spent a few days away from my girls and it made me think a lot about them and what is important. I know that I’m always trying to be the best mom…
Ask kids get older they miss out on the things that were fun when they were younger. I thought I would show one fun way that I adapt the dot marker pages for my girls as they get older. My girls love the number dot maker pages. There are three different types of printables to…
In preschool the basic are taught for ABCs, numbers, shapes and colors. I thought it would be fun to round up some of those elements that are on the site. I am starting with the coloring pages. What I like about coloring pages is that you can always do them again. Each of the pages…
This is Set 9 of 13 in the Romping & Roaring Primer Sight Words Packs. This month Romping & Roaring Primer Sight Words: say, she, so, soon. I’ve had the question why each of the sight words in their own file instead of groups together. I found that working with my girls I worked on…
We have really loved having the butterflies we used a few days ago. They have been so much fun. I realized that the colors matched up to the ones in a game that my girls love to play: Candy Land! This was a chance to turn that game into a fun match activity! This was…
My youngest loves the color coloring pages. After I put them out someone said, my child does not like to use crayons. Well you don’t have to just use crayons or colored pencils with these pages! I thought I would should you 5 different ways that we use them. It is always fun to do…
We have been working on colors with my youngest. It is fun to change up how we do it. The butterflies made a perfect chance for us to do some fun hands on learning with something different. It also goes great with our butterfly theme we have been doing. We love doing butterflies during the…
A recent trip to an art museum left us with some fun ideas for crafts. My girls saw a piece in passing that they just wanted to try at home. The collage was made from cut outs. They wanted to try it with our butterfly punch! We have really enjoyed our butterfly punch. It has…
Eric Carle is one of our favorite authors! There are so many great books by him. I’m always happy when we run into a book of his to read or do an activity with them. Several years ago we went to Eric Carle Museum and loved it. There was so much fun information to learn…
May is going to be a different month for me. You can call this months theme rest recovery from surgery. Nothing major just something small to fix a problem. This changes everything I do for the month. I will take time to recover unlike the last time. Blog Goals April did not go as well…
April was lots of reading for us. There were so many new books to find. I had a hard time limiting myself on the books we really liked. I think I had 25 books in our pile and had to limit myself. Some of these are book finds from the store and some are from…
It is time for the next printable in the CVCC set. This time we have Dot Marker Words for -ANG, -ING, -ONG, – UNG. Dot Markers are always fun to use at our house. My girls love to use them when learning words. It has been something we have put into practice a lot. There…
Farm has always been a favorite theme at our house. We have some favorite books for farm and was one of the first printables that I worked made. Since we are always working on math and addition. The Roll A Farm is tons of fun to practice counting and math with kids. This set was…