You may have heard that our latest Family Unit Study just dropped in the shop—Inventors and Inventions—and let me tell you, it is SO cool! The Inventors and Inventions unit is filled with fun and creative activities, all culminating in making your very own invention using the Design Thinking process. Today, I thought I would…
Inventors and Inventions | A Homeschool Unit Study
Do your children love to create and design? Have they ever wanted to create a novel invention? I’m excited to introduce our amazing, hands-on Inventors and Inventions unit study! This unit will inspire your children with the stories of some great inventors of all times, then guide your children in using the design thinking process…
Fiber Arts Projects for Your Homeschool
Handwork is often an overlooked aspect of a homeschool curriculum. It may seem daunting to tackle, but what if there were an easy-to-follow unit to guide you step by step along the way? I am thrilled to introduce our one-of-a-kind Handwork: Fiber Arts unit study—it is filled with fiber arts projects that your children will…
Quick-Dry Rainbow Salt Tray
We all have different strengths and different needs, right? One of my strengths, I do believe, is my willingness to let my little ones get messy. It really doesn’t bother me one bit watching them slosh paint on the table, drip paintbrushes on the ground, or see those painted little hands touch freshly washed hair….
How to Learn to Write
Are you ready for a walk down memory lane? Well, it is only my memory, so I suppose it’s more like a walk down story lane. And just to warn you, it might be a little bit of a lengthy walk. Please feel free to skip down the lane (ha!) until I get to the…
Teach Your Child to Read Using Any Simple Story!
Can I tell you a secret? You know those dry, mundane, ‘The cat is brown. The dog is black.’ stories? I LOVE THEM. Yes, the storyline leaves a lot to be desired. Yes, the words and pictures are so predictable it can be a little (more than a little) painful. But these books can be…
STEPPING Up the Reading!
Oh exciting things are happening in this house of ours — Sammy is starting to read. As a teacher, I just love this stage of child development. He knows all his sounds and blends and he is starting to sound out words all on his own. He is so excited about it, he is ready…
S-t-r-e-t-c-h-i-n-g it Out to Learn to Read
Learning letters and their sounds get little ones ready to read, right? Wrong!!! (Well, that was rather abrasive and negative. I’m sorry. Please see it as passion and not negativity) Letters and sounds, letters and sounds, letters and sounds. You could find thousands of activities to practice these skills with your little ones on this…
The Great Boat Float: Teaching Rhyming to Preschoolers
A little while ago, I was playing a rhyming game with my little one when I realized he really wasn’t grasping the concept of rhyming. I tried a different game, and low and behold, he wasn’t grasping it that way, either. Teaching rhyming to preschoolers isn’t always easy! How could this be?! I thought for…
Flying into a Letter Recognition Activity!
I mentioned a little while ago how I wanted to share some of my older posts with you again and how I hoped you wouldn’t mind, and how they were really cool activities, but the writing was perhaps a little off, and how sometimes I rambled (okay that clearly has not gotten any better). Well,…