Homeschool

In my last post, I shared about Preschool Hammer Practice using common household items. Today, we're going to extend the activity by adding some letter sound practice! Prep your materials: …

I've got a post over at Totally Tots today sharing a fun and easy shape building activity. It's a super simple one to make...like 2 seconds. Easy-peasy! Jonah and I …

Last weekend I strapped Asher in his carseat and drove with some friends to the Teach Them Diligently Convention. Only, it wasn't that easy, because homeboy hates his carseat like …

One of my favorite tools I used in my Kindergarten classroom were plastic Letter Tiles. Beginning readers love to manipulate letters and practice phonics  with hands-on activities. Now that Jonah is …

We love Eric Carle books. Alot. They are the books that we return to over and over and over again. One of the things that make Eric Carle books so …

We've been practicing three letter words (also known as word families) around our house for quite some time now. Honestly, Jonah just kinda started sounding them out one day...by himself. …

We've entered the world of "Sight Words" around here! I've recently taken notice of some readiness for sight words with Jonah and decided to give it a try. I wasn't …

I have an insane amount of children's books. I think most former teachers do. Until recently, they were boxed up because we really didn't have the room for them. When …

Spring is the perfect time to talk about eggs and oviparous animals! What's that you say? Ovipa-what?!? Vocabulary word for the day: Oviparous, which means egg-laying. In full disclosure, I …

Jonah and I have been slowly, but surely getting ready for my next post on Totally Tots. (It goes up on Thursday, but every day is full of pure preschool …