We love to go mushroom hunting. Our mushroom hunts are for spore prints. We do NOT eat our mushrooms. I wish I knew which ‘shrooms were edible and which were not, but alas… Goals! Spore prints are a favorite around here. I do not know how I made it all the way through my college…
Category: Preschool/Kindergarten
Educational Games: Preschool
This is a 4-part blog series on games. It includes games for preschoolers, early elementary, later elementary, middle school and high school. This post contains affiliate links that will help you find the game easily. We’ve found ourselves needing a little more family interaction lately in place of all our separate screen time during this…
Quality of Numbers
I love math. I always have. I think partly because I was able to see the magic of the patterns through the humdrum of algorithms and worksheets that were mundanely fed to us in school. I was lucky in that. So many cannot, and math becomes a tedious bog to drudge through each step…
A Little Geography with your Valentine Exchange?
For the last few years we’ve participated, and this year hosting, a valentine exchange through social media. You can find exchange groups on Facebook. We’ve used this as a fun geography lesson. We take the valentine stamps and sometimes stickers, cut them out and tape them on our map. We color in the states that…
10 Tips for Rearing Butterflies in your Classroom
We have so enjoyed rearing butterflies over the years and observing their life cycles. Here are my 10 tips to get started on one for yourself. Of course I’ve listed a couple of activities and lots of our favorite BOOKS! Hope you enjoy an easy read on this Mother’s Day.
Fall Window Cling Tutorial
One of our favorite things to do in the fall is to make window clings to place on our windows for decoration. There is a little bit of wait time involved, but this project is it rather easy one and a lot of fun. The overall project includes making lead lines with black fabric paint….
What We Are Using for Foreign Language
In this post I talk about what we are using for foreign language and how it works for us.
Using Bowling for Math
We used bowling for math this week. Here’s how we did it.
Walking water
My daughter asked me to do the “walking water” demonstration this past week. It’s such a fun and simple little “experiment.” She was old enough this time to do it herself. I had a couple of people ask me about it, so I thought I do a short tutorial on how to do it. You…
Some books we are reading this week:
Boo to You by Lois Ehlert Big Pumpkin by Erika Silverman The Dark at the Top of the Stairs by Sam McBratney I Spy Spooky Night: A Book of Picture Riddles by Jean Marzollo Little Owl’s Night by Divya Srinivasan Old Devil Wind by Bill Martin
Body Systems through Art
Last fall a homeschooling friend and I made a trade. I taught her children biology; she taught mine Spanish. That trade has been one of the best things I’ve done. Not only did my children benefit from her native tongue, but her children were delightful to teach. Biology became so much more fun with friends….
Using HABA Orchard for Math
The cooperative game of Orchard is used to teach more, less, by how much, and graphing.