Hide and Seek Alphabet Letters
At our house, we have discovered many things to do with foam bathtub letters besides play with them in the bathtub! Obviously, they are very fun to stick to the side of the tub, but we have also used...
View ArticleMath Activity: Candy Survey and Graph
Facebook can be such a useful tool for homeschooling! Last week, Gresham’s math curriculum, Making Math Meaningful from Cornerstone Curriculum, introduced the concept of a bar graph. I decided to...
View ArticlePreschool Unit: The Year at Maple Hill Farm
Last week, we did a very simple unit using the book The Year at Maple Hill Farm by Alice and Martin Provensen. I have started choosing a “book of the week” for Owen (age 3) and then we do an activity...
View ArticlePattern Block Art
The boys and I made art with construction paper pattern blocks and had so much fun! To make them, I traced our pattern block shapes onto construction paper and cut them out. I used the same colors as...
View ArticlePaper Plate Clock Activity for Learning to Tell Time
When I saw this idea on Pinterest (from Mrs. Dahl’s Classroom) to make a paper plate clock for learning to tell time, I knew we had to do it! Gresham is ready to learn how to tell time, and we have...
View ArticleTeaching the Concept of Even and Odd Numbers
Today, Aidan (4th grade) was learning about remainders in division, so I thought that it would be a good time to introduce even and odd numbers to Gresham (1st grade). Gresham has already mastered...
View ArticleFirst Grade Math: Curriculum Comparison
So, I’m homeschooling my second first grader (Did that make sense? My second son has reached first grade) and we’re on our FOURTH math curriculum. Actually, our curriculum-hopping spanned second...
View ArticleChristmas Tree Math
We made homeschooling a little more festive this week with some Christmas tree math! Gresham (1st grade) is working on learning his addition facts, so I made 6 trees with numbers on the trunks. I drew...
View ArticleMy Father’s Dragon – A Literature Unit for Ages 3-6 (Part 1)
When I was in college, my elementary reading professor gave each of us a copy of My Father’s Dragon by Ruth Stiles Gannett (Amazon Affiliate link). I can’t remember if I read it when I got it or not,...
View ArticleMy Father’s Dragon – A Literature Unit for Ages 3-6 (Part 2)
This is the second part of the unit I did with my first grader and 3.5 year old on My Father’s Dragon. In Part 1, I shared about how we ate tangerines, did a fun tooth brushing activity, and made a...
View ArticleAn Alphabet Lift-the-Flap Craft for Preschoolers
Preschoolers love to keep their hands busy! It’s a constant task around here to find enough things to keep Owen’s hands busy while Aidan and Gresham are doing their school work. Owen LOVES to cut and...
View ArticleLego Math: How Many Legos Does it Weigh?
Yesterday Gresham and I had so much fun with LEGO®’s and math! We made a balance using a clothes hanger (I saw the idea on Kids Activities Blog), but instead of using plastic cups to weigh items, we...
View ArticleExploring Volume in First Grade Math
This year, Gresham is doing first grade math with Making Math Meaningful. We have finally landed on MMM after sampling several math programs. (If you’re interested, I wrote a comparison of first...
View ArticleConstruction Truck Counting
Last week I tried an experiment. I made Owen his own checklist of school activities on Friday. He LOVED it, which was good because it kept him busy, but bad because now he will expect me to have a...
View ArticleTeach Organizing, Graphing, and More with a Book Sorting Project
Last week, my first grader and I completed a project that touched on so many different learning concepts – we organized all of the picture books on our shelf and graphed our results! Here are the...
View ArticleFive Number Activities for Preschoolers (Using materials you have on hand!)
If you’ve been following Frugal Fun for Boys, you know that I am homeschooling a 4th grader and a 1st grader while also caring for their 3 year old and 1 year old brothers! It’s like a three four ring...
View ArticleMagic Math! (And more ideas for addition fact practice)
Here is an idea for a FUN way to spice up addition fact practice. We called it “magic math!” Gresham has been working on larger addition facts, and at this point in the school year, we’re honestly...
View ArticleFive Hands-on Preschool Alphabet Activities
Interesting alphabet activities make learning more fun for preschoolers! Lately, I’ve been exploring ways for Owen (age 3, almost 4) to work on the learning the letters of the alphabet without me...
View ArticleEight Real-Life Ways to Get Kids Writing
Gresham is 6, and finishing first grade. His handwriting was so neat when he was learning to form the letters, but now that we are past learning how to write the alphabet and he can spell quite a few...
View ArticleFive (More!) Hands-on Ways to Learn the Alphabet
Back in April, I posted 5 hands-on ways to learn the alphabet. Well, we’re back with more ideas! I’ve been collecting ideas over the past couple months. Since it’s summer, school is “out,” but we...
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