Thoughts of a mommy & teacher.
Ashlyn has been very interested in learning the states so I got out my old map poster and put it in her room. I decided to make it into a game. I used some bug stickers and made a key on a piece of paper. I put a different kind of bug for each state […]
I had Emily find things around the house that were different shapes. She chose some of her toys and also wanted to spell out her name using her foam letters. She placed them on a dark piece of construction paper and we set them outside in the hot Florida sun.
After about an hour we brought […]
Here is a list of some free educational websites for kids. My girls (5 & 2) love playing on the computer and have become pros at using the mouse. Have fun!
www.starfall.com (the best website for learning letters, sounds, phonics)
www.spellingcity.com (games using spelling words that your kids type in)
http://jimspages.com/States.htm (kids will learn US geography)
www.peepandthebigwideworld.com
www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/fimbles/index.shtml
www.bbc.co.uk/schools/laac/menu.shtml
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I was running low on some of my crafts so I decided to hit up Michael’s the other day. I bought this huge bag of pom poms because there are so many things you can do with them.
For my 5 year olds room time activity this morning I decided to have her do some patterning with the […]
Here’s a fun way to reinforce sight word recognition by playing the game Go Fish. Make a deck of 21 pairs of sight words using index cards cut in half. Deal five cards to each player and make the rest the “fish pond”. Play the game just like Go Fish. As your child’s reading vocabulary […]