Sometimes it's just fun to play with the alphabet letters and not use them as an overt learning tool. it's always fun to see how tall a...
Foam Alphabet Letters Fun
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Foam Alphabet Matching Game
The kiddos love to play with their foam alphabet letters. Sometimes they just lay them all out on the floor and poke the letters out and simply...
Foam Letter Spelling
Cutie Pie is in first grade now, which meant we spent some time this summer reinforcing reading through some fun activities, which I'm sure he's...
Playground Letter Search
Have you ever gone on a tangible letter search? It's sort of like Hidden Objects, but in real life rather than on paper and with a much larger area...
A is for apple/Apple Investigation
In the spirit of fall and wanting to get back into more learning activities with Sweet Pea (like I did with Cutie Pie at this age) we took a little...
Fall brings changes
One of the things I love most about living in the northeastern U.S. is the fall season. I love wearing sweaters, the chilly nights and warm days,...
How similar are the words?
I used to doodle in my writing books as a little girl. When I noticed words sort of lining up one under the other I would tend to look for similar...
Encourage Writing in Young Children
I personally love to download different fonts for projects from the computer. There are so many different handwriting fonts that I'm...
Encourage Writing – Some Simple Ideas
I've been thinking a lot about encouraging writing in our young children (like here), so I thought I would share a few very simple ideas to...
Glow Board Reading
Hubby spends more time with Cutie Pie at nighttime than I do, I admit it. Cutie Pie wants me to do shadow puppet shows against the wall with him and...
Alphabet Learning
I've posted recently about Sweet Pea learning the alphabet at preschool and how we've been trying to reinforce that learning at home. One thing we...
Learning Letters
I've mentioned before that Sweet Pea (4 yrs old) is learning his letters in preschool. We've been working on them here at home, too, but in the form...