If you ever see a LEGO building event in your area, your kids would love it! To ease your frustration a little bit, though, you might want to...
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Encouraging Writing – fine motor visual motor activities we like
As I posted yesterday about the fine motor visual motor activities suggested by 6 year old Cutie Pie's OT, today I'm sharing the fun 'Vision...
Playing Pool – Number and Color Recognition
Counting. Recognizing numbers and colors. Each day after gymnastics class (posted about yesterday) Sweet Pea and another little boy would have fun...
Gymnastics Class – learning through movement
Sweet Pea took a group gymnastics lesson at a local gymnastics facility and absolutely loved it. However, it was a bit costly for this family. I...
Encouraging Writing – Fine Motor Activities
Last week I posted about Cutie Pie having a little difficulty with his writing. Today I thought I'd share a section of a basic list of fine...
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 – Prayer Box
Do you pray with your child and record their requests? Six year old Cutie Pie's Sunday School teacher gave him a box, originally for writing down...
Encourage Writing – about their day
In the beginning of the year when Cutie Pie came home from morning kindergarten he'd find a School Notes sheet to fill out while he waited for his...
Pet Helper
Remember a bit ago I posted about the family now having a fish tank? Cutie Pie's science interest has really been fueled, so much that he even likes...
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...
Writing Skills
Cutie Pie seems not to have an interest in learning how to write and his teacher has talked with me a few times about it now. One night Cutie Pie...
Creating Childhood Memories
I found myself following a school bus today. That in itself isn't that strange, but this one was the same number as the bus I rode as a kid. It...