Education resources for parents and teachers
We're learning about the letter M around here -- and even though my Five has known his letters for quite some time, I took the opportunity to create some letter-M math: Monster Missing Addends! These would also work great as a classroom learning center in October. What are missing addends? 4+ __ = 10. The missing addend is 6. When are children ready to find missing addends? Finding missing addends is a skill ... Read More
(Disclosure: I received a free copy of Ready for Kindergarten! by Deborah Stewart for reviewing purposes. All opinions are mine! This post also contains affiliate links.) I have four children of my own. Two of them, my Three and my Five, are preschool boys who love to write! No, they're not writing stories, poems, or reports. What they're doing is communicating on paper - each at his own developmental level. ... Read More
Looking for something fun to use in October? Or maybe you're like me and just love cute monster clip art. :) Either way, I hope you can use this free preschool math game with your 3,4, or 5 year old. This game will help your preschooler with the following skills: number recognition 1-6 counting objects up to 6 subitizing (looking at a group of objects -- in this case, dots on a die -- and knowing how many there ... Read More
Welcome back to the collaborative Simple Writing Series, a weekly feature hosted by This Reading Mama and The Measured Mom! Have you missed any lessons? Click here to see my introductory post and links to our first five lessons. Invented spelling. Have you heard of it? If you're in education, you're certainly familiar with the term and perhaps with the controversy surrounding it. Invented spelling is ... Read More
Here are the short i word family words you'll find in these printables: ill: hill, drill, grill, bill, ill, mill, pill, fillid: lid, mid, slid, hid, kid, bid, squid, gridick: stick, pick, sick, kick, trick, chick, lick, brickit: knit, sit, kit, hit, lit, pit, bit, fitin: pin, win, grin, fin, bin, spin, twin, chinig: dig, pig, wig, twig, jig, rig, big, sprigip: chip, flip, ship, trip, chip, drip, rip, tip How do ... Read More
We've got a growing collection of sensory play ideas as we work our way through the alphabet. This week we had some fun with the letter M. We combined sensory play, literacy, and science into one fun activity! Learning about magnets with preschoolers We used the above printable from Sparkle Box. Unfortunately, their site is now so filled with ads you can't find the right place to download it ... Read More
It's time for lesson five in a 12-part series between This Reading Mama and The Measured Mom! Our simple writing series is designed to help kids become better writers - while it's being written for first and second graders, you'll find you can easily adapt these lessons to many different grade levels. A common frustration for classroom parents and homeschooling teachers is the brevity of our students' writing. We ... Read More
Here is the fourth in a 12-part collaborative series by This Reading Mama and The Measured Mom (me!). Each Wednesday you'll find a new writing lesson that you can use with your first or second grader and/or easily adapt for older kids. This week's lesson is about how to write an interesting beginning. Becky does a great job of modeling how to do this. She also shares an excellent printable which your little ... Read More
Have you found that your child's writing kind of resembles that soup recipe - Everything but the Kitchen Sink? When your child chooses a topic, her ideas are so broad that they cover everything. Today's mini-lesson in our Simple Writing Lessons for the Primary Grades will help your child focus her writing. (This post contains affiliate links.) In our first two mini-lessons, This Reading Mama and I focused on ... Read More
When it comes to teaching kids about our country's history - we might not know when to start. Sure, they get a smattering of U.S. history in preschool, kindergarten, and the primary grades. But in my experience, I didn't get my first big dose of American history until fifth grade. Let's change that! Today I'm going to share how to teach kids about history -- using one simple word. READ. Too simple, ... Read More
