Blog Archives
back-to-school shopping with three crazy-cool kids
After our crazy-successful Smart Summer Challenge, I needed a little week-long offline vay-cay to say the least! Our Smart Summer Challenge was a smashing success (woo-hoo!), but blogging daily for ...
a fish out of water: games to practice sight words
Owen and I had to play a few extra games of Go Fish! this week to celebrate the Water Fun we’ve got on our calendar for the Smart Summer Challenge, ...
gettting ready for kindergarten: summertime prep
We’re almost exactly at the mid-summer point, and before we know it, the new school year will be upon us. Ahhhhhhh! So with my sweet Owen heading off to the ...
questioning and connecting during read-alouds
I’m not going to lie–some summer days, I really think that if it weren’t for the 15 minutes of Adult Swim, my kids wouldn’t stop moving all day long. Even ...
learning during read-alouds: making connections
My kiddos are huge fans of popping pop beads, stringing beads, connecting nuts and bolts, and just sticking things together. Not only are these great activities to help develop kiddos’ ...
wiggly words: wild, crazy practice with spelling and sight words
We’re always trying to mix things up over here–get a little crazy, even–when it comes to playing with those spelling and sight words. So before Maddy’s long i spelling test ...
alphabingo: playing with lowercase letters
An oldie but goodie, we brought out Alphabingo before rest time on Monday, before I was hit hard with what seems like the flu and before our lives got really ...
rainy day, rainy games
Today, on this rainy, cool, gray Monday, we rocked it with an oldie but goodie:Sunny-Rainy Grid Games. Or Rainy-Sunny Grid Games, depending on how you’re feeling or the weather outside. ...
new for us friday: springtime love notes
Now that spring is officially here, it’s time for new Springtime Lunchbox Love Notes! This New For Us Friday is super easy and very simple, but it’s something that both ...
getting a little sneaky with literacy
Too many times, parents think that in order to support their children’s developing literacy skills, they have to sit down with a book on their laps, read through the entire ...
a little more lunchbox love
I have to admit, I’m still not used to packing a lunch five days a week, and my planning isn’t always the best. Usually I’m scrambling in the morning like ...
