Education resources for parents and teachers
(This post contains affiliate links.) Ladybug Math Ideas & Printables 1) Number Recognition - Ladybugs on a leaf To practice number recognition, I decorated red office stickers and told my Two (pictured) which number the ladybug wanted to eat. He covered that number with a sticker. Because I have three kids learning to recognize numbers, I created one with the numbers 1-10, one with the numbers 10-20, and ... Read More
11 Crafts for Preschool: The Letter L 1- Hand & Footprint Lobster This was my favorite, and the kids' too. They loved stepping into the red paint and making a footprint. Then they carefully made two handprints for the lobster claws. The next day they took out their black markers and decorated. This idea was from Crafty-Crafted. 2- L is for Ladder Sometimes the best letter craft is short and sweet. The kids ... Read More
This spring we're doing a lot of ladybug math! I designed this printable addition game with my Five in mind. Printable Addition Game The game board has the numbers 2-12, as these are the numbers you will get when you add two dice together. The most commonly rolled numbers are used the most, with 2 and 12 appearing only once each. We grabbed a pair of dice and some power magnets so that we could play on a baking ... Read More
(This post contains affiliate links.) Free Letter L Printable: L is for Ladybug Here's a quick Letter L printable. My kids love to cover the circles with round office stickers. For many more learning ideas for Letter L, click on the image below: And check out this link for this and all of our dot sticker pages: Save Save Save Save ... Read More
Today during prayer time my husband asked each of the kids to name something they were thankful for. My Two said, "My letter books!" I started creating these before I began blogging because he wasn't picking up on the letter names. At first he wasn't interested in the books, but it wasn't long before he was bringing them to me to read. Now he memorizes all the rhymes and songs and carries his box of letter books all ... Read More
After several months of blogging, I've finally made something that challenged my Five, who is just finishing kindergarten. It didn't take too much convincing to get her to try this missing addend activity. She ended up going through the entire stack of 45! As I write this she is trying to get her four-year-old brother to do them. He's resisting. "Do you want to watch me do them?" Ladybug Missing Addend ... Read More
It's April, and our snow has nearly melted! So it's time for more spring-themed math. Here are some ladybug count and clip cards: a printable counting activity for preschoolers. Ladybug Printable Counting Activity for Preschoolers My Two enjoyed doing the cards up through number 6. (It's hard for him to count larger groups of objects even with help.) It was good to get some counting practice and number ... Read More
(This post contains affiliate links.) Ladybug Number Recognition Activity This ladybug math was a fun way for my kids to practice recognizing numbers and get some fine motor practice at the same time. Do you have any dot stickers? We buy these at office supply stores, but you can easily get them online. First I got out a page of red dot stickers. Then I got out a black Sharpie and decorated them to look like ... Read More
L is for letters, so we kicked off our letter exploration with this alphabet sensory bin. I decided to do color the pasta myself, and this is what I used: That's about 15 bags of tiny alphabet pasta, a little rubbing alcohol, and a fair amount of food coloring. The pasta was only 33 cents a bag! The funny thing is, if I'd have bought Da Vinci's brand a few aisles over, the pile would have cost me ... Read More
One of my favorite things to do as a mom is teach my kids to read. We start by reading tons of books together, work on phonemic awareness, continue by learning letters and sounds, and then move on to sounding out words. I'm excited to share something I've been working on for some time -- 8 short a word family mats! I call them "Read 'n Stick" because my kiddo reads the word cards and sticks them to the pictures ... Read More
