alphabet
lowercase letter hunt and sort
Our first super crazy fall week has hit us. Hard. With double Back-to-School Nights, double tutoring, and meetings, on top of a mid-week trip to the Newseum to learn about ...
abc cards and clothespin match
Being able to simply recognize and name the letters of the alphabet is not the key to absolute reading success. However, research has proven that when children can identify letter ...
abc hide-and-seek 2.0
September is a month of celebrations! A new school year! Two sweet cousins’ birthdays! And finally, after 41 weeks (and a day or two!), our newest family member decided to ...
sky writing
Sometimes, you need nothing but your fingers and the sky to practice writing. Today, during a way-too-hot lunch out on the porch, Owen, Cora, and I chatted about Brady’s first ...
labeling and learning, learning and labeling
For our making our rainy weekend a lot more bright, I’m extending big thanks to my awesome Aunt Pat. She’s a former Head Start and Pre-K teacher who entertained us ...
celebrating earth day, sneaking in some learning
It’s Earth Week! What a perfect platform for celebrating the outdoors and for practicing new ways of being kinder to Mother Nature? We are trying over here–trying–to be a ‘greener’ ...
new for us friday: er-u-di-tion (a sight words game!)
We’ve had this game for quite some time now, but it’s only in the recent few weeks that we’ve really explored how much fun Er-u-di-tion had to offer our little ...
we heart alphabet board games
It’s yard sale season! Wooo-hoooo! Some of our most favorite learning materials have found their way to our home via yard sales, including these two alphabet and early literacy board ...
building words with letter lids
We have been rockin’ it out with our alphabet letter lids since we made them a few weeks back, and occasionally I’ll throw in some word building when the kids ...
alphabet letter lids
I still keep lids. Actually, I keep lids, egg cartons, coffee containers, yogurt cups and probably too many other things that are cool to play with and easy to reinvent. ...
abc exercise cards. . . hooray!
Thank you, ABC Exercise Cards, for giving us a fun and burn-some-steam kind of activity this afternoon! After a rainy weekend and another rainy–but exciting!–morning at the College Park Aviation ...
