Skip counting is one type of math that leads to learning other math skills. Puzzles are a great way to work on skip counting. I love how puzzles can learning hands-on. We have some great Ocean themed skip counting by 10s puzzles. Each puzzle is a great way for Kindergarten and first-grade kids to work…
I know that my girls have enjoyed several of the hands-on learning printables over the years. Each of them learns a different way. I have enjoyed the challenge that those learning types have created for me. Digraphs can be hard but fun too. One of our favorite digraphs is “sh” for shell when we have…
We love the hands-on mats for working on our numbers and math. My girls are always asking for changes in the seasons. The I just love these mats because they show the ten frames that will be used in a lot of school systems. Plus they give kids different ways to do their addition and…
Spring is here, and we are always looking for fun ways to review our multiplication and division! I know that we are always working on these math facts and having something different is nice to change things up. I thought this spring set would be a nice change. I have included some of our favorite…
My girls love playing hands-on games that they can do together. We are always working on ways to make math fun. The rolling and creating math games give them a fun way to work on math facts that are fun. The Roll a Fairy Tale Castle is an excellent way to review math and have…
Looking for the best alphabet activities for preschoolers? We’ll show you where to find them! I’m Anna Geiger, creator of The Measured Mom, and I’m thrilled to be guest posting at 3 Dinosaurs! As a former teacher turned SAHM, I’ve had the privilege of teaching the alphabet to five of our six children. When I’m…
At a particular time in school, you start learning short and long vowel sounds. They are sometimes easy and sometimes hard. It is something that is fun to review now and then. We have been working on CVC vs. CVCe at home. This Christmas tree sorting is a lot of fun for this activity. Plus…
Every year I learn something new when I’m working with my girls on math. The last few years was the idea of grouping and arrays for multiplication. It is a hard concept for some kids to understand. There are groups of numbers that make more numbers. I showed some of this in the Winter multiplication…
There are always kids who just don’t do well with flashcards. No matter how many times we drill them on the same cards they just don’t get it. Hands-on mats are an excellent way to get them learning their math facts. I just love these mats because they show the ten frame that will be…
Once you progress from simple counting, you head to addition and subtraction. Some kids get the idea right away, and others don’t. These free Thanksgiving addition and subtraction mats give kids a hands-on way to work on their math. I always want to change up our learning. These mats have been helpful for my youngest…
Counting can be a huge struggle with some kids. You never know what will just click with a child and get them to read. I love counting mats because they do just that. I put a lot of the counting mats into the printable packs. But every now and then it is nice to have…
Kids always need tons of practice when learning their math facts. I’m always looking for fun ideas and sometimes taking something we loved like the apple set. Then change it to a favorite theme of Dinosaurs! Yes, I have three girls that love dinosaurs. These mats are fun to use plus they make learning as…
We have been reviewing a lot of our place value the past few weeks. Place value is an activity your start as early as first grade and works through many different higher grades. These mats have been a great hands-on activity that can be used so many different ways. If you saw our place value…
We are at the start of the year, and some kids are just learning their multiplication and division while others are all set to start their review from the year before. I wanted to have something fun to work on it this year! So I made my girls favorite activities the spinning wheel math activities….
We have been working various math facts with my youngest. She is just starting some simple math activities. We have been working her addition many different ways. Today, I wanted to show you one hands-on way that we have been using the addition flashcards and erasers. My girls have loved doing this type of math….
Ponds has been a favorite theme at our house for a very long time and Jump, Frog, Jump! has been a favorite book for as long as I can remember. It was one of the books my oldest came home from school and just had to read and I just had to get. It was…
We have been doing a lot of hands-on math activities lately. We love all the math addition pages in the themed packs. I wanted to have something we could pull out and use at any time. We have been exploring the starting of math for my kindergartener. She loves doing math when her sisters are…
We have reached a new season, and I thought it would be fun to have another math game to practice our math with. This free Roll a Winter Scene is a great hands-on way to work on different levels of math. Each of the rolling math games, that I have made, are easy to use…
Woodland and forest is a favorite theme at our house. We looked through a lot of the books in the house to decide. We happened to come along to a new book while book shopping. It was Daylight Starlight Wildlife. We featured this as one of our books finds for the month. The book explores…
Yesterday I had a wonderful post on This Reading Mama. I wanted to make sure that my readers saw it as well. This is a great post about using the ABC Cards from the Busy Bag Printables. This is a fun post about hands on learning with those cards. You can read all about it…
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…
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…
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…
How do you use your printables is a common question that I get all the time. Today I thought I would show one way that we use the CVC Word Family Color by Letter Cards. We do some simple sorting and rhyming words. For this example I used all the words ending with -at, -et,…
One of our favorite activities is doing matching with a book. We do this often with the toobs that we can match to a book. We have been learning about the life cycle of a butterfly. A recent book find at the library lead us to this great hands on activity. I love pulling out…
I get asked how to you use the dot marker pages. I thought I would show a few ways we used the Spring Dot Marker Pritnables. It is easy to turn a simple page into something different. In the printable set there is some trees and some flowers. Each are different and fun to do…
Sensory bins are always fun to explore. This is a fun two color water beads with an Easter egg theme to it. It is always fun to see what fun This was a fun sensory bin because the water beads made the eggs stick to hands. Plus we did a few hands on activities with…
If you have been following me on Instagram you will know that we have been getting TONS of snow and lots of snow days. We have been stuck inside for several days at a time. The snow has been to deep to get out or to cold to play in the snow. To keep us…
We have been reviewing a lot of our ABCs.There are many different ways to do this. Lately we have been doings lots of hands on activities with plank boards. They are tons of fun and hands on. Plus it gives you many different ways to think about how you would create an object with the…
We have been doing a lot of exploring with just play and simple plank boards It has been a fun way to do some hands on out of the box learning. For post of this we made some plank board snowflakes! It was fun to see how creative they can be. Plus this is an…