This week I am focusing on the “buh” sound (which is one of the first 6 sounds that children usually vocalize) with Baby L, so I’ve picked activities that will afford me lots of opportunities to use B words. Baby L is 14.5 months Contact Paper Collage. The first one we tried a couple weeks ago […]
As I’ve mentioned before, I am not putting a lot of emphasis on learning over the summer for kidlet, but I have been fitting in things like writing practice and doing a lot of introductory chatting about food groups, mainly in “sneaky” ways. As we come to the last few weeks before school begins, I’m planning […]
It can be overwhelming to parent at times. I want to be a great mom and give my kids as much as I can. I buy so many books, research so much on the internet, collect ideas. Sometimes it seems that I can’t even work my way through everything before my kiddo is out of […]
Yesterday Baby L did her first real art project. I took clear contact paper in a cardstock frame (I had leftovers from the Frank Lloyd Wright presentation I did for art lit) and a box of styrofoam, textured paper, and tissue paper hearts and strips (leftover from the collage card project I did with Kidlet’s class for […]
I dunno why you want to spend so much money on toys mom! I’ll happily move old buttons into a recycled canister for hours. (please ignore the fact that the playroom badly needs vacuuming!) A few styrofoam balls from an old planet mobile kit, the inside of a garbage can lid. Wheeee spin the balls.
It being summer, kidlet is well aware that it is his vacation from academia. He has no tolerance for map worksheets or math problems or anything that he recognizes as “school stuff”. Still, I don’t want him to lose any skills from lack of use, and he really does need to work on his handwriting, […]
There are times when feeding the kidlet can be a trial. I get quite tired of hearing “I don’t like that” at dinner time (usually referring to some kind of non-processed, non-ground meat). On the other hand, when I asked him what he would like for lunch today he asked “Well, do we have any […]
 They are both growing up so fast. One minute they were BOTH lil things in my arms, I blink and now look at them! Next thing you know I’ll be packing two bentos 😉
Using materials from Take It To Your Seat Math Centers (K-1) from Evan-Moor Educational Publishers (just this activity is available for download for just a few dollars as well), Â some extra bugs that I’m sure I downloaded on 4share.com, but can’t find now, contact paper to “laminate” and improve durability, and markers to decorate, I […]
Kidlet has already been exposed to the idea of states of matter. We’ve talked about solids, liquids and gases for a while now, done experiments with water, ice, gelatin, and so on. I created this folder to review, and to quiz him on his understanding of states of matter. The labels for the envellopes came […]
