colors
colors, counting, reading, I can’t believe what I’m seeing
Cora received an awesome gift for her birthday from her pal, Ava, and I’m thinking that I will soon make this book my “go-to gift” for little ones. It’s a ...
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. ...
cora’s color game
During one of our first rainy-sick days last week, we all worked on making a color game for Cora. We had just re-discovered Owen’s Follow-the-Path Game for beginning sounds, so ...
colors in a jar
It’s a rainbow of colors around here–between the end-of-summer flowers still desperately hanging on and the leaves beginning to change, it’s gorgeous. So I thought I’d put to use some ...
new for us friday–candy, colors, chopsticks
Today’s New For Us Friday involves three totally random but fun things: candy, colors, and chopsticks. It’s Friday. I couldn’t resist. Plus, I haven’t had Sour Patch Kids in years. ...
new for us friday–hissssssssssss
Today’s New For Us Friday: Our New Favorite Game!! This week has been really different for us; with Maddy in Kindergarten all day long, Owen, Cora, and I are slowly ...
trying to keep smiling: quick trick, color cards
This Quick Trick is something that has saved my sanity on several longer-than-expected waits at the doctor’s office, auto shop, Target, and even the grocery store. I have no recollection ...
cleaning, counting, and sortin’ colors with cora
This past weekend had us busier than usual, with my sister getting hitched (woo-hoo!) and Maddy in the wedding. It was awesome, but we’re dragging today. It was nice to ...
colors with cora
Colors are going to be my focus for little Cora for a bit so that she’s not calling everything under the sun “blue”. We actually had some quiet this morning ...
just fishin’ for colors
Today I realized that Cora’s been calling every color “blue” (I’m such a great mother. . .), so I moved into high “color teaching” gear today–or tried to, at least, ...
white board writing
For some reason, all of the students I have ever worked with have always loved using dry erase markers and white boards, and the same has proven true with my ...
