We are officially back at it over here! We took the leap and started our homeschool schedule back up after a nice long summer break. And what started us of? This adorable apple name puzzle! We officially started back on Wednesday, for a variety of reasons, and have a co-op we attend every Friday, so…
Reading Activities: Name in a Jar
An oldie but a goodie for you today, my friend. A flashback 8 years ago when I was beginning to teach Sam his letters and sounds. Spoiler alert – it worked! Here is that post on teaching letters and sounds from all those years ago … We are playing our way to learning to read!…
3 Ways to Play and Learn with Sticky Notes
I love sticky notes. I have ever since my days in the classroom. In fact, I remember one year for Christmas a family gifted me a huge basket full of pens and various sized and shaped sticky notes and I was actually over the moon excited. It felt like Christmas morning as a child! Now…
Easter Letter Match {Easter Freebie #1}
Do you know what I think we all need more of right now? Fun. And easy. Easy fun. Yes – easy fun for Easter! That is exactly what is needed right now. So for the next 5 days I am going to be sharing with you Easter freebies that make Easter fun super easy. Here…
Activities for Learning Letters
Teaching preschoolers the letters of the alphabet can be so much fun with these hands-on learning activities! If you are unsure of what order to teach the letters, check out this post in which I describe the best way to teach letter recognition to preschoolers. It is super important that we introduce letters in this…
Color by Letter Worksheet Printable Bundle: s, a, t, i, p, n
Do you have a little one who loves to color AND is working on learning letters and sounds? If so, you are going to love these 18 color by letter worksheets! PLUS, at the bottom of this post you will find ALL 78 Color by Letter coloring pages for FREE These fun and easy alphabet…
Preschool Card Games: ABC Go Fish!
Get ready for the very best of the best preschool card games! When my little ones get to be about 3 or so, they get to start joining in on some of the board game and card game fun that happens around here (oh yes, it’s a wild home we have friends!) I really do…
Teaching Letters: Uppercase or Lowercase First?
Well, we have a question of the week my friends! “What should I teach first, uppercase or lowercase letters?” When I receive an email about a topic more than 5 times (well, 6 times – so hardly ‘more than 5’ – but I am adding a dramatic flare) it warrants a blog post. So today…
Lovely FREE Alphabet Playdough Mats
Learning letters and the alphabet through PLAY is the name of the game right now for little Carter. Using Printable Alphabet Playdough Mats was the activity of the week this time. I wanted to share this awesome (and FREE!) resource with you as well. First of all, let’s chat teaching preschoolers their letters. With Carter,…
Scoop and Dump the Alphabet Activity!
Ready for an alphabet activity that will knock it out of the park with your preschooler? If you have a little one who loves diggers, trucks, and all things construction, this is THE alphabet activity for you. I recently sent out a survey to those who are on my email subscriber list. I learned so…