How We Made Learning to Read Fun and Engaging

How We Made Learning to Read Fun and Engaging

Is your child showing an interest in learning how to read? Here’s how we made learning to read fun and engaging with Reading Eggs. Squeaker has always caught on to things a bit early. And while I had planned to at least do prep work with her at home (to prepare for Kindergarten in public school), it was soon becoming apparent that she may have been a bit further ahead than we originally thought. Still, I wasn’t quite sure as to what we could still do with her. But as I continued to piece together things on my own, it was becoming more and more evident to Kyle and I that we would be pursuing the homeschooling route. We love the flexibility of using physical…

How to Engage an Early Reader

How to Engage an Early Reader

Do you have an early reader on your hands? Here’s how to engage an early reader with Pathways 2.0 in your homeschool. I have always loved to read. As a young child, I enjoyed being read to. And when I was old enough to start reading on my own, I consumed books. All the time. It shouldn’t have been too much of a surprise that my youngest would be the same way. I just wasn’t expecting for her to show that much interest. And while we had intended to at least formally homeschool Kindergarten, I wanted to start a little bit early. We are doing an adapted year round schedule, with language arts and math making up the core of our program. *This post was…

Simple STEM for Preschoolers: Learning About Circuits

Simple STEM for Preschoolers: Learning About Circuits

This shop has been compensated by Collective Bias, Inc. and its advertiser. All opinions are mine alone. #PowerYourSummer #CollectiveBias I have an incredibly curious preschooler! She’s always been like that as far as I can remember, but lately? She really wants to know about everything. Whenever we go places, she wants to know how things work, why they do this, or why they do that. And now she’s doing that at home– which is great! I love to feed into her curiosity and today we talked about circuits. Science was never a strong point for me, but I’m learning, that with my daughter? It’s just one of those things that she wants to know more about. And I am more than happy to encourage her….

Fun Facts about the Philippines for Preschoolers

Learning about world culture and geography is so much fun for young children! My daughter and I recently did a mini-study on the Philippines. And we wanted to share with you: how to teach preschoolers about the Philippines.  Introducing a culture study of the Philippines for Preschoolers First, we went to trusty old Google to look up some facts about the Philippines and to find the Philippines on the map. We learned that: The Philippines are in the country of Asia the official name is the Republic of the Philippines There are over 7,000 islands in the Philippines People in the Philippines speak English, Tagalog, and several other languages People from the Philippines or of Philippine descent (like me!) are called Filipino or Filipina (male/female) Luzon…

Free Printable Animal Bingo Cards for Toddlers and Preschoolers

Free Printable Animal Bingo Cards for Toddlers and Preschoolers

Kids love playing bingo (adults actually do too, LOL) and what is more fun then a bingo card with animals on it?  My children are obsessed with animals and when we go on a day trip to the zoo we like to end the day playing Animal Bingo! We will talk about all the different animals on the cards before we head out and it makes the outing even more fun.  You can print off these free printable animal bingo cards and have some fun too. Free Printable Animal Bingo Cards We always print these free printable animal bingo cards off on white cardstock so we can use them over and over again.  I may even use my personal laminator to keep them nice and…

Easy St. Patrick’s Day Art for Toddlers

Easy St. Patrick’s Day Art for Toddlers

Easy St. Patrick’s Day Art for Toddlers Today I’m sharing two super easy St. Patrick’s Day art for toddlers ideas. You’ll be able to find the sheets that I used in my Simple St. Patrick’s Day Coloring, Matching and Puzzles Pack or in my St. Patrick’s Day Printable Pack . I’m hesitant to call this Tot School just yet as we aren’t integrating anything else into it (shapes, colors, letters)… plus Squeaker will only be 15 months on March 5th (2015), so I wouldn’t expect for her to be ready for some of the other stuff I have planned for Tot School. For both projects, I printed them out on card stock so they would hold up a little better to the finger paint and…