Now that I’m teaching reading for the third time I think I’m getting the hang of it. Way back in my early years in college I took a class on how to teach kids how to read. I’m not sure why I took it since I had no interest in…
As part of my 4 year old daughter’s Easter unit study we made a couple yummy edible crafts. Our first one was a Crown of Thorns made out of pretzels and chocolate. I melted some chocolate chips in a bowl. My daughter put some pretzel sticks into the melted chocolate…
This school year I’m doing theme based unit studies with my 4 year old. I’ve listed the resources and activities planned for the year’s unit studies here. This fall we enjoyed learning about the season of fall, thanksgiving, and participated in many fall-related activities. We painted a piece…
We are finally going through the botany study I put together last year. We had started it last summer, but it was too late in the season to really get the benefit of growing things. So I put it off until this spring. We studied worms a couple of years…
My daughter and I have had a bit of fun playing Alphabet World. Basically I get out our Melissa & Doug Upper & Lower Case Alphabet Puzzle along with my daughter’s stash of mini-figures. She loves her little figures and has been known to play with them for hours. My goal…
While preschool isn’t something I’ve normally done, my little one was hungry to learn. So I added her to our daily school routine halfway through our school year. This isn’t something I require her to do and she tends to go through waves where some days she wants to do…
My little girl enjoys languages. Mandarin is her favorite, but when her brothers watch Arabic videos she typically comes running. Today I was working with my younger son on learning the Arabic vowel fatha. I put on an Arabic alphabet video to show him how the fatha was used in…
We are studying the ancient Hebrews in history right now and we just experienced the ten plagues of Egypt. We came through unscathed, but the activities will hopefully help my children remember the plagues. Someone had listed activities to do for each plague here. I used some as written and…
When my boys were small I discovered a little book called Faith Speaks! This book helps you teach your children 21 different Bible texts using sign language. While I have a little background in sign language, I find the instructions in the book easy to follow. It uses CASE which…
There is so much emphasis these days on early academic education. So many children start their academic career at the age of 3 and some even younger. Is this so wrong? After all, young minds are sponges and it will help them to get a jump start on academics, right?…
