Bunny Cover Up : An Estimating Game
If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to our free email feed. Thanks for visiting!I recently went to a baby shower for a friend. Midway through the party, the guests were shown a large jar of peanuts. We each wrote down our best guess about how many peanuts were inside and then anxiously waited to see if we were the winner. Boy was I off!! Estimating is a hard skill to learn, but giving kids plenty of opportunities to practice certainly helps. In Bunny Cover Up, children use small, medium and large pom poms to cover up parts of a bunny’s face. For example, they use medium...
Read MoreIt’s Here! Bugs and Butterflies Activity Pack
As I shared with you earlier this week, my boys fell in love with bugs and butterflies during our recent trip to the Butterfly Pavilion in Denver, Colorado. As soon as we started driving away, I began brainstorming bug-themed math and literacy activities that are perfect for pre-kinder and early kindergarteners. I’m thrilled to report that the activity pack I spent the last few weeks creating is finished and has earned two HUGE thumbs up from my son, C. I’m excited to pass it along to you so that your children can go buggy over it too! (I couldn’t resist.) Click here...
Read MoreSneak Peek: Bugs and Butterflies
A couple of weeks ago, my family and I spent several fun days visiting my mom in Denver. It was the perfect opportunity to do a little kid-friendly sightseeing. The first stop on our itinerary was an insect zoo called the Butterfly Pavilion. Inside, our boys were thrilled to wander around exploring bugs and butterflies from around the world. In fact, they were so fascinated that I couldn’t wait to start putting together a literacy and math activity pack that would help them learn new skills using their new love: invertebrates. I’ll post the pack in a few days....
Read MoreHow to Read Books to Babies (and Books They’ll Love)
We’ve all heard the research. When children have heard many stories being read to them before they begin kindergarten, they tend to be better ready to learn reading and writing. So why not begin from day one? Well, if you’re like me, it may feel kind of strange to try reading to an infant. What are we actually supposed to do?! “So Much More Than the ABCs” by Schickedanz and Collins is a trusted early literacy guide published by the National Association for the Education of Young Children. The book recommends the following: Allow babies to play with and...
Read MoreThe Same-Different Game
One of the four signs your child is ready to read is something called “phonological awareness”. Basically, that means that she needs to be able to hear the sounds in words: rhymes, beginning sounds, ending sounds, etc. This game is designed to help your child with that very thing. Called “Same-Different”, the title really says it all. Players say the names of pictures they see and decide whether the first (or last) sound they hear is the same as another word or different. Here are the details: Prep To get started, print a copy of the word cards...
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