Education resources for parents and teachers
My toddler and preschooler love listening to these little letter books - each has six rhymes and/or songs for a particular letter of the alphabet. In fact, my Three can recite most of the books himself. Why my free letter books are a great tool for your little one: They're just the right size for little hands - and if they get ripped or drawn on, you can just print another! Rhymes are an important pre-reading ...Read More
My Three loves to play the transportation memory game I made. So I decided to build on that and throw some counting into our next memory game. Today I'm sharing a free printable memory game which will help your child learn to count groups of 1-10. We're doing the letter M - so I made Monster Memory! Learn to count with this monster matching game! My Three likes to count, but it's not ...Read More
It's time for lesson 7 in the 12-part writing series between This Reading Mama and The Measured Mom. This week I'm sharing a strategy to teach first and second graders when they're revising their work. How do we help young writers build vocabulary when their writing is full of the same old words? We put boring words in jail! Simple Writing Lesson #7: Put boring words in jail. (a revising strategy) (Note: I ...Read More
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 ...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
So is it feeling like fall where you are? We're expecting 90 degrees tomorrow, but that's out of the ordinary for us. By the end of the week we're expecting a gorgeous 64 degrees. Even though fall leads into one of our dreaded Midwest winters, it's my favorite season. So it was especially fun to make this set of fall emergent readers! If you've been following along, you know I'm using the fabulous ...Read More
Have you seen my collection of 5 free learning centers for learning short a word families? Now that my Four has developed ease and fluency with reading the short a words, we're moving on. I've already created short i word family houses. Today I'm sharing more free word family printables: read 'n stick mats! Why teach reading with word families? When I teach my kids to sound out words, I often start with word ...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 without causing ...Read More
