new for us friday: LeapFrog Peek-A-Shoe Octopus (& giveaway!)
As much as I have had a ton of success with LeapFrog products and love nearly everything LeapFrog, I knew that I needed to outsource a bit when it …
colors
new for us friday: ‘take the cake’ game (and giveaway!)
I wanted to jump for joy when my friends at Gamewright sent us Take The Cake, a perfect game for younger ones. We’ve been playing it for three …
surprise!: learning with silly bands
They’re colorful, they’re stretchy, they’re simple. They’re confusing, countable, and collectible.
They’re animals, …
flowers and colors, coloring flowers
Part of our flower fun over the last few days involved our experiment for the Virtual Science Fair which was a lesson in backyard fragrances. But …
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” …
cora’s color game: learn colors with a homemade 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 …
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, …
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 …
color cards and clips: fine motor fun
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 …
colors with cora | using lids to sort and learn colors
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 …
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 …
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 …