We read the book The Thing About Spring recently. It was part of a conversation about what is spring with my six-year-old. She said, “mom it is finally spring.” I said but the seasons started in March. She told me no it is like when the snow turned to water in the book for rabbit,…
Spring is here and it is time for some fun Spring writing prompts! We have enjoyed some of the other writing prompts that I’ve made. It is nice to have something that is simple and easy to use. I really like writing prompts allow kids to be creative in their thinking and writing. I made…
Spring is here and it is time to update the next calendar set. We really have enjoyed these calendars over the last few years. This month we have the update Rain Calendar to 2016 plus added the new extra pages as well. Calendar are really fun for kids to have they can use them for…
Spring time is officially here and it is time for some fun spring themed bookmarks. As my girls get older I’m always looking to keep my oldest in bookmarks for her reading. She loves to have seasonal changes as much as my younger girls do. Plus we are always looking for bookmarks in our house….
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…
Spring is here and flowers are a favorite theme at our house. These CVC & CVCC Word Family Writing Flowers are tons of fun for the season. You can practice writing the different word family words that you are working on. On each of the flowers there is word family ending. This gives the suggestions…
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…
Every month I write a fun post for Enchanted Homeschooling Mom. I love every one of the posts. This month is one of my favorite activities is gross motor with book! This activity goes with the book: There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Frog!. This is a fun way to interact with the…
Reading is a huge part of learning for kids. There are so many ways that we can make it fun. These Spring Weekly Reading charts can help with that. We keep track of a lot of our reading during the summer and this year we have been working on keeping track all year round. That…
Rain such a great theme for spring! This is a fun calendar set because you have rain and clouds. Rain is always a great start to the season. There are so many fun themes for spring that you can do. It is a year later and I still love the smiling raindrop! We are looking…
If you have followed my site for a while you know I love the Old Lady Swallowed stories. I was so happy to see another one had come out. It has a fun spring theme to it! So it is time for a new spring pack to go with the book! I always love reading…
A favorite time for us during the spring is to look outside for bugs! It is a big sign that spring is finally here. For us after a big winter it is always fun to look for those signs of spring. We do this activity for several days not just one, because you never know…
The blossoms on the trees is one of my favorite parts of spring. The girls and I made some fun Spring Blossoms to hang in our windows at home. Before we started this activity we read a few books one of which was Seasons by Anne Crausaz. I just love to read that book. I…
I love listening to rain in the spring, so I thought a rain themed calendar might be nice for April. Spring is always fun and rain is a great theme for the spring. I just fell in love with the rain drop that is smiling. I knew when I saw it that I wanted to…
The Spring learning pack has printables and activities for kids from tot all the way to third grade. There is a mix of activities in the pack to help have some fun during spring. The Spring Learning Pack is an excellent addition to the spring printable packs and free printable packs on the site. This…
Check my monthly post the Free Spring Dot Markers at Freehomeschooldeals.com. These pages go with my Spring Pack. You can see spring weather, bugs, flowers and more! 22 pages of Dot Marker fun! We love Dot markers at our house so don’t miss out on them! These also go great with my other Spring Dot…
Since spring has started we did some simple Seeing and Hearing Activities for the Sensory Challenge. My oldest can’t handle to many hands on Sensory activities. A lot of the hands on activities I have to provide a second way for her to interact with them. In order to avoid some major problems we did…
Spring started on March 20th this year! Here are some Spring Reading Charts that are like the Summer, Fall and Winter Reading Charts! Each season so far I have challenged my girls to read 100 different books. Spring came much faster than I guessed it would. I was not prepared for how fast winter went…
The book finds this month all came from the library. I always try and look and ask them about new books when they come in. This month we have dinosaurs, seasonal books and a few others that were fun. Dinosaur Pet by Neil Sedaka and Marc Sedaka is a great story about a boy and…
Here are some great books we have been reading. Some we have bought, but you never know what you can find at the library! The books from this month have the following themes: spring, math and abcs. Every month the girls look for new books. The books can be different than what we normally look…
Over the past few days we have gone outside a lot looking for signs of spring. The girls love finding the daffodils all over. They liked looking at the various flowering trees. Amelia and Mary loved picking small flowers. Mary liked to point out the colors of the flower and could say Daffodil so those…
We are working on flowers right now and what better way to see lots of them than to take a trip to the flower shop! The shops carry different flowers throughout the year. This is a great way to look at flower and see the different smells and colors. This also allows them to touch…
What you need: green, yellow, red, pink, orange paints, brushes, Q tips, lids to put paint on, paper. The girls used a side of their fists to stamp out the flowers. They used Q tips to make the stamen of the flowers. The girls painted on their leafs and stem of the flowers. Cassie –…
Enjoy my Mini Baseball Pack! We have included links to some of the products and resources we have used with this activity. If you purchase via the links we may earn a small commission. The baseball printable pack is a great addition to the baseball printables on the site. These printables go with the book…
Enjoy a wonderful Mini Flower Pack! These printables are names of different types of flowers that you see in the spring. We will be using them to look for flowers outside and with the book Planting a Rainbow. Main Flower Pack contains over 20 pages: 3 Part Cards, Beginning Sounds, Matching Cards, and Read Write…
This is the start of the Month Books finds! Each month we look for new and fun books at the library! This months covers a few favorites that we found. The girls and I love looking for new and different books. Do you look for new books when you are in a book store or…
Stamping Flowers What you need: Flower cookies cutters, different paint colors, lids to put paint on, green finger paint, white paper. Amelia and Mary stamped their flowers on the paper. They painted grass and stems with finger paint. Spring Blossom Tree What you need: Blue construction paper, cut up brown construction paper, glue, pink and…
Spring Flower Painting What you need: flower shapes, pencil, paper, and water colors. Amelia traced the flower cookie cutters. Amelia then colored in the flowers Amelia then painted the stems for the flowers and grass. Spring Window What you need: blue construction paper, 3 short and long strips of brown construction paper, half a piece…