Learning at Home: Everything you need in one place Teaching at Home QUICK START Part One (absolutely free)Download Hi there, This is a living resource. This time in history is unique and I do not remember anything like it in my own life. Fridge reminder is the free download at the top of this page! As someone who was tricked into homeschooling her kids, I can imagine how overwhelming it is for millions of families across the United States. So I want to help. Actually, my husband, Craig Sayler, encouraged me to put together something to help families. As usual, it was a GREAT idea. Grab your 7 week SIMPLIFIED Plan for Teaching your kids at home (Link is at the top of the page) Download below You are obviously a compassionate and kindhearted person- to throw life rings out to all of us hapless souls scrabbling around trying to get a grip during this “get back to simpler life” period, like you did. You certainly made home-schooling a breeze for me. When I saw your tools and how you had set it all up for everyone for 7 weeks!!! I was finally able to get a good nights sleep. BTW my grandchildren just LOVE school now! My granddaughter just turned 3 and she & her 8 yr old brother ask to do Math every day. & They love having the stories read to them on Audible. -Glenda Teaching at Home QUICK START Part One (absolutely free)Download Preschool page:6, K-2: page 7, 3-5: page 8, 6-8th: Page 9, High School: Page 10 in the FREE download. Bookmark this document so you can find itLike and follow A Better Way to Homeschool (Temporarily: You can unfollow after kids go back to school or the second you don’t think I’m helping you. Do me a favor? Don’t judge my spelling or grammar. I am building these resources together as fast as possible to help as many families as possible and i KNOW I will make more mistakes than usual. Deal? Share this FB Post with anyone you feel can use this help: Just click and it should open https://www.facebook.com/ABetterWayToHomeschool/posts/4162016910482441 You’ve got this! Simple plan Plan your daily routineAssign a few choresSchedule a time for learningKeep track of what you’re doingKEEP IT AS SIMPLE as POSSIBLE Yes, you can share this video! Bookmark This Page. If you decide to continue teaching at home, come back here for Part Two Like and Follow A Better Way to Homeschool on Facebook. I have new, free, and amazing resources for homeschooler and parents at home added daily! Ready for MORE? Teaching at Home EXTENSIONS Part TwoDownload Some Light-hearted Humor I purposely created the Quick Start Part One without Religious material. If you’d like to add a simple FREE Bible lesson that works for all ages, grab this. Parenting in Times of Crisis turned into MAGICAL Memories Ready to Use Homeschool Schedules Looking for Fun Indoor Games and Activities Family Games that Count as LEARNING Fort Building 10 Things You Need to Make an Epic Living Room Forts with your kids OUTDOOR Play is a MUST!! 97+ Ideas for Making Math FUN Math with a Deck of Cards Amazing Handwriting Worksheets Teach Life Skills Gifts from Heaven: Gifts and Letters from the Past These are perfect for time capsule writing DIY Teaching Kids to Cook Kit PRINT THIS FREE REMINDER. This post comes with a free printable reminder list to help keep your heart focused on the heart of our kids. I always have the hardest staying focused. This printable simplifies it! Here is a sneak preview… DOWNLOAD YOUR FREE PRINTABLE Download the checklist. You’ll get the printable, plus join 9,000+ homeschool moms who receive my weekly parenting tips and ideas!Print. Any paper will do the trick, but card stock would be ideal.Place it on your refrigerator as a helpful reminder.
Activities for Preschool and Under You just want 20 minutes of quiet… so you can get things done. Kids are energy in motion. bouncingleapingexpoloringlickingsingingsmilingshriekingskippinglovingcrawlinghuggingbuildingdancingtappingtwirlingclimbingsneakingGROWINGrollingtumblingdiscoveringlearningspillingslippingsnappingquestioninghopping Energy. No wonder you’re tired! Mom, there are simple to use easy to put together activities to help your kids learn to manage their time, make their beds, write their name, and even bounce some energy away. And then there’s the Activity Room. The Activity Room enrollment is closing tomorrow! Take a moment to imagine your parenting 3 months from now… Imagine that you wake up each day feeling excited, and knowing you’ll create a meaningful childhood experience THAT day. You feel in control because you know not only when those moments of chaos happen, but what you can do when they do happen. You’ve come to appreciate what activities can do for your parenting and your child — you feel more confident that you’re the parent you’ve always wanted to be. You can do this! Join The Activity Room and you’ll have everything you need to stay consistent, stay motivated and stay on track to get you to that point! Here’s the ROOM promise: when you join The Activity Room and make use of the resources, you WILL have a parenting transformation. You’ll create special moments with your kids, making them have a childhood to remember, and have a lot of fun every day.You’ll be happily playing with your kids or freely getting dinner on the table.And you’ll do so in a way that is easy and realistic.You don’t have to be super creative or a Pinterest Mom to connect with your child. That’s why so many of the members recommend The Activity Room to their friends. If you’re curious, I encourage you to just try it. Doors are closing soon and won’t re-open to the public again until September, so if you’ve been thinking about joining, now’s the time to take action. Click here to join The Activity Room. Yes, the kids will still bounce, laugh, skip, hop and roll but the ROOM will help you guide them through their day with a bit more purpose for them and a little more rest for you!
Make Toys from Sticks, Stones, and Natural Materials Just because you’re stuck at home due to injury, illness, or global pandemic, doesn’t mean you can’t create a magical playtime for you and your kids. While we all live in different climates and have different types of raw materials near our back doors, we can use what we find to make some fun natural toys. Browse for a few ideas.Go outside and gather your materials with your kidsLet them lead I bet you’ll make something cool, but I’m also guessing you’re gonna make something else: MEMORIES! Learn more from The Best Ideas for Kids Nature Sun Catchers! Learn more from Hands on As We Grow Learn more from Adventure in a box Make a fairy Garden! Learn more from Family Handy Man Make a tie tac toe board! Learn more from Chicken Scratch NY Paint Name, or word, rocks! Learn more from Mama Papa Bubba Make story stones! Learn more from Happy Hooligans Related: Turn classic puppet show stories into story stones Sea Glass Chime! Learn more from All Snug as a Bug Nature Sensory Bottles! Learn More from Rhythms of Play Make a SIMPLE draw string bag with your kids to store these NATURAL WONDERS! Learning at Home: Everything you need in one place Don’t stress about Screen Time
Building Trust with Your Child When your child trusts you with their heart… My youngest son is 14.If you want to see his gorgeous face, just look up the phrase “ball of energy” in the dictionary. That’s his picture. This boy spent his life surrounded by his four older brothers, but this year caught him off guard. All 3 of the other brothers at home leave the house each day to go to school at the local college. This shocked him like a stun gun the first day as he looked around a the VERY silent house and whispered, “I’m gonna die of boredom this year.” I saw it clearly too. ” Buddy, we have a very unique gift from the Lord this year. It’s just you and me all day. Yes, academics are important, but we’re going to do school differently this year. We’re going to enjoy our time together and strengthen our relationship. Especially since you’re 14, and mom is weird.” Then I stripped back school to the bear minimum. We do math every day, but not very long.He is writing a handful of gut wrenching stories/ so I give him time to write most days.Then he alternates between: history 2 days and science 2 days. For history, I designed a power point/slide outline with my son to be his year long project. If you’ve seen me share, he’s transformed a black and white list into a beautiful presentation. I think he’s made it from Mesopotamia to Rome. Science. We were doing health until the day he trusted me with his heart in the rain. I think it was in January that I really saw myself in the mirror and realize I need to lose about 30 pounds. My body is beginning to hurt and I know if I don’t get back into shape I will fall apart. So I declared, “rain or shine, I need to you help me walk every day. Our first goal will be 2 miles a day for a week, then 3, then 4. But I need to get to 5.” He said, “OK.” Yes, we’ve been soaked a few times…I even had to challenge his “man-hood” by requiring an umbrella twice. lol. Phew! He’s LOVED the time together. The infamous, “I think I want to be a cardio thoracic surgeon” walk, happened after a few WEEKS of getting closer to the 4 mile mark. We had spent hours and hours each day, walking, picking up “treasures” on our beach (gemstones, pretty rocks, shells and sand dollars and just chatting about stuff. I began weaving in some academic discussions while we adventured.We’d pick a road and talk about academic things for the duration of that path: grammar things, history, health. And out of that time together… he trusted me with his dream. We were at least 3 miles into a walk when he said, “Please don’t laugh. I think I really know what I want to be when I grow up…” 💞My heart skipped.He was trusting me with something.I could feel it. This didn’t just happen.This was the fruit of all that time in the street, in the rain, on our walks chatting that unlocked his heart. When I show people the level of work he’s put into his DIY heart unit, their mouth drops open.This is a labor of love project for sure.It looks like he’s an academic genius, absolutely. What it really is? Evidence that he feels loved and “seen”. It all began because I decided to create a Huckleberry Finn style year of wandering,I saw I was over weight and we just hung out and talked without distraction. 👩🦰Mama, give yourself permission to push traditional academics aside. Walk beside your kids and sing in the rain, skip stones, catch butterflies, or go fishing at the pond at the far end of your property. Dedicate a little bit of that time to chat about some “topic for learning” and simply enjoy their company. Who knows.Maybe, just maybe… like my son, your kids will trust you with their dream.
Math with a Deck of Cards Quick round up of all the math games I can find that you can play with a deck of cards. Total of 10 Lay out 20 cards on the table (leave out face cards or change them to equal 0, while aces equal 1). Kids remove sets of cards that add up to 10, ultimately trying to remove all the cards from the table. It’s harder than you think! Learn more at First Grade Round up Nifty 50 This game is great to develop logical thinking and problem solving, review two digit addition and subtraction regrouping, and is fun! The object is to come up with a math equation that has a sum or difference closest to the number 50. First player to five points is the winner! Learn more at Scholastic Great collection from Math Geek Mama! 21 This game is a simplified version played in casinos, with no gambling involved. Object: be the closest to 21 without going over! Learn more at Scholastic Place Value War Turn over 1, 2 or 3 cards. Place them in any position to make the highest number possible. The higher number wins all of the cards for that turn. Learn more at Newark Schools Once through the deck Shuffle the deck and place it face down on the table in front of you. Flip the cards face up, one at a time. For each card, say out loud the sum (or product) of that number plus (or times) the number you want to practice. Don’t say the whole equation, just the answer. Go through the deck as fast as you can. Learn more at Denise Gaskins Related: Games with a deck of card FREE printable by SAU 39 Closest To Starting with two digit numbers, deal out two cards per player. Each player takes the cards in their hand and rearranges the digits to create a number that is closest to 50. The players show each other their hands and the player who is closest to 50 wins the set of all of the players’ cards. Learn more at Math engaged Math Memory Lay all of the cards down on the table face-down in a grid. Players take turns flipping over three cards and seeing if they can make an equation with the face-up cards. Younger players can try using addition and subtraction, and older players can also try using multiplication and division. Players are challenged to remember what cards every player has flipped to help them create equations on their own turn. The player with the most amount of cards at the end of the game wins. Learn more at Math engaged Here’s a game similar to the one described above, but this version allows students to compare fractions instead. You will need two pencils, one for each player, to serve as the fraction line. Learn more at Super Teacher Worksheets Guess My Number Place a student at the front of the room and give him or her two playing cards. The cards can be ordered any way the student wants. Be sure the cards cannot be seen by the class! Take turns around the room guessing what the number is. The types of questions asked have to use math vocabulary, such as, “Is it even?” “Is it odd?” “Is it greater than 10?” “Is it a factor of 20?” and so on. The student can only answer with a “Yes” or “No”, until the actual number is guessed at. Learn more at K5Chalkbox More math with a deck of cards! More math goodies Math Picture Books Breath Life into Arithmetic! 97+ Ideas for Making Math FUN Homeschool Math: Grab your Roadmap to Success
DIY Doll Game and Activity your kids will Love this game/activity!! This beautiful activity comes from author Gail Masinda, with Maestro Heights. The idea is simple. Learn to care for baby while living your normal life. Perfect for training siblings for life with baby! There are two sets of activities: small manageable taskswhat baby needs. How to play Place each in their own jar/basket.Begin the day with a smt. Complete the taskThen reach in and see what baby needs. Set the timer and kids practice setting baby’s needs above their own. PLUS, you get a little bit of time too! Back slips are included so you can customize chore/tasks and activities for baby. Kids can use dolls or stuffed animals for “Baby”. I purposely used the word BABY and did not include his/her pronouns. HAVE Fun! Download your free copy here Visit Gail’s beautiful Music Room
Best Subscription Boxes for Kids There’s never been a better time to try subscription boxes. With all the supplies, instructions, and fun already hand-picked and ready to go… You’re kids are gonna love you! Food for thought: These make GREAT gifts for people in nursing homes too!! Quick Links KiwiCoMel ScienceBitsboxIvy KidsYoung WoodworkersLet’s Make ArtRock By RockRaddishLetter from AfarHighlights Little PassportsThink OutsideCraftsman CrateSensory Therapy Play BoxBarkBoxDIY Preschool Earth Box PlanDIY ABCs of God Plan Free Science for three months from Mel Science? Here’s how you register! When you really want to know what’s best you ask the experts, right?Kids LOVE getting stuff in the mail! Surprise them with a special gift – A subscription box just for THEM! Perfect for birthdays, holidays and more! But, if you’re like me you’re wondering which are the BEST Subscription Boxes for kids. So I asked all the moms On our Facebook page: I’m looking for subscription box and membership ideas for homeschoolers. Most subscription boxes are chosen to meet a specific need, want, or interest. Throw in the fact that you don’t need to look for duct tape, buttons, or instructions for how to whip together something cool and BOOM. Your kids will think you’re the coolest mom on the planet. Not sure which boxes will best fit your family? That’s exactly why I asked a few dozen of my homeschooling friends. Check out all the AMAZING subscription boxes other Homeschool Moms love. …Read More »
Parenting in Times of Crisis turned into MAGICAL Memories When I was about 11-years old I had the BEST summer ever. Family wildflower walks every evening after dinner.Family wifle ball games.Family soccer games. (got a basement?) We lived on a 15 acre farm in Connecticut and my dad spent the summer carving out adventures for us with his ride-on tractor. ⚽️First he cut the soccer field. ⚾️Then he lowered the mover and cut a baseball diamond into the same field. 💐He carved a 6-foot wide path around a huge field on our property so he could take us on a walk to see “which wild flowers bloomed” that day. 🌼We played🌱Caught dragon flies🌱Watch clouds float by👀Sat in the yard playing I-spy🎼Turned off all the lights in the house and blared the music while playing “who knows the most lyrics to each song” We fed wild birds, watched the squirrels steal their food and simply enjoyed each other’s company. 🐾What a great summer! It wasn’t until I was a grown woman that I learned the truth. 😳Dad had been laid off that summer. While he applied for over 150 jobs looking for work at night, during the day he created, played, and was present with all four of us kids. Today, we have a choice. I say, let’s make this season of quarantine the “BEST Spring vacation of our kids’ childhood.” 🌸Be present🌷Read🌱Cut soccer fields out with a lawn mower⚽️Play games And at night, when the kids are nestled in bed make our plan for the next day. I found the EXACT 200+ year old house I lived in at the time.Yes, I had a heart attack too. It was not fully restored when I lived in it. It was NOT this beautiful when I lived there. But you get a rare opportunity to see where my DREAM summer was lived out.Page 27. That yellow room is where I heard my sisters snore like tigers.Page 28 was a closet PACKED with boxes and clothing and didn’t have a window.Page 31 was the scary attic in our garage where my parents hid Christmas presentsPage 34 is the window I witnesses the greatest ice storm I’ve ever seen. I sat on the sofa and peeked out.Page 38 shows you why I remember spending a HUGE portion of time doing yard work with my dad. But the magical field?Page 32. Walk to the right of the garage and hang a right after that clump of trees… I spent hours and hours and hours there with my family, led by my father… When I lived here, all the walls were white. There wasn’t any fancy decor. We had 13 cats, no heat in my room (you could see your breath) What’s your favorite memory from your childhood? If you know people who can use an easy to follow plan for school for the next few weeks/months… Share this FREE, no gimmick plan with them. Learning at Home: Everything you need in one place
Math Picture Books Breath Life into Arithmetic! The Girl With a Mind for Math: The Story of Raye Montague After touring a German submarine in the early 1940s, young Raye set her sights on becoming an engineer. Little did she know sexism and racial inequality would challenge that dream every step of the way, even keeping her greatest career accomplishment a secret for decades. Do Not Open This Math Book: Addition + Subtraction Finally, a FUN book to read with kids that helps bridge the gap between what’s being taught in school and how today’s parents learned math back in the day. Giggle your way through entertaining lessons on addition and subtraction involving muffins, turkey sandwiches, kittens, googly eyes, and more! A Hundred Billion Trillion Stars Did you know that the earth is covered in three trillion trees? And that seven billion people weigh about the same as ten quadrillion ants? Our world is full of constantly changing numbers, from a hundred billion trillion stars in space to thirty-seven billion rabbits on Earth. Can you imagine that many of anything? Place Value You had better not monkey around when it comes to place value. The monkeys in this book can tell you why! Order of Operations Task Cards Students work backwards from the answer and a set of four numbers. Using the information given, the student (or team) must add the appropriate symbols to solve their task. Fractions in Disguise: A Math Adventure Crack the case with George Cornelius Factor in this entertaining math adventure that introduces simplified and reduced fractions with equal parts intrigue and humor. When a valuable fraction goes missing, George Cornelius Factor (a.k.a. GCF) vows to track it down. I’m Trying to Love Math Do multiplication tables give you hives? Do you break out in a sweat when you see more than a few numbers hanging out together? Then I’m Trying to Love Math is for you! In her signature hilarious style, Bethany Barton introduces readers to the things (and people) that use math in amazing ways — like music, and spacecraft, and even baking cookies! Fall Worksheets: Math Mazes, Targets and more These Fun Math worksheets are all centered around 3rd Grade multiplication practice and mastery. 9 No PREP 3rd Grade Math-Multiplication Activities Included in this pack: 3rd Grade Math: Multiplication- Mazes solved with multiples3rd Grade Math- Sudoku puzzles3rd Grade Math: Multiplication-Candy Corn Multiplication Families The Grapes Of Math “This…clever math book uses rhyming couplets… riddles…visual clues to help the reader find new ways to group numbers for quick counting…A winning addition! FANTASTIC Math Manipulatives and Games So FUN!! Problem solving is so important!! Best Subscription Boxes for Kids More Math Products Fun Math Worksheets for Middle School: Division (Thanksgiving) Fun Math Worksheets for Middle School: Division and Divisibility (Christmas) Classifying Numbers Bundle. Fun Math Worksheets for Middle School: Order of Operations 14 Divisibility Games and Activities. Scattergories Game BUNDLE (Thanksgiving & Christmas Themed) Fun Math Worksheets for Middle School: Number of the Day Middle School Math Worksheets: Budget Project
A Family Fish Unit INSTANT Activity day! Theme: FISH Materials needed: Fishing poleweight/clayPaintPaint brushSmall snack like golf fish crackers PHYSICAL ACTIVITY Tie a weight to the line.Set up targets in the yardHave kids try to land the weight in the target. FOOD: Got goldfish crackers?They can win a few for each great cast. SCIENCE: Grab a free fish life cycle activity MOVIE: Finding Nemo Yes! Pop some popcorn! ART: Paint a fish! https://youtu.be/XgoXqxXlf5E MATH: Group goldfish, or legos, into groups of 2, 3, 5, 6, or any number. Practice skip counting Story: Listen to RAINBOW Fish! https://www.storylineonline.net/books/the-rainbow-fish/ Put on a Puppet show! Make talking fish: https://youtu.be/LCsMvSEoadIMake colorful fish on sticks https://youtu.be/aTcWPtoXcacMake fish Sock Puppet
DIY Earth Crate for Kids How Does it work? Set a BUDGET (You can create a great crate for $25+)Load up all the goodies into your cart (Items from Teachers Pay Teachers, Evan Moor and Amazon)From your cart, make your final selections.Download your printable lesson and prep lessons while you wait for your goodies to arrive.Watch your kids get excited Earth Activities, Printables, and Games GOODIES TO CHOOSE FROM FOR YOUR KIT **Hands-on Activities and Printables I am Earth Book Earth Day Pocket Book Project Save the Earth Stickers 3D Globe Puzzle Mini Squishy Globes Terra Cotta Mini Pots Gardening Tools for Kids Wooden crate WHY DO LEARNING CRATE WORK SO WELL? Experience Lead learning simply works BEST! With over 20+ years of thematic/Unit based teaching experience, Bekki is an expert at wrapping a learning activity with hands-on activities, engaging stories, and fun projects to bring topics to LIFE. *This type of learning transforms a dry topic in to a DELICIOUS and Contagious excitement. Sounds like a win!! PRO TIP: ALWAYS GIVE STUDENTS TIME TO EXPLORE MANIPULATIVES, GAMES, AND TOYS PRIOR TO WEAVING THEM INTO LEARNING. THE YOUNGER THE STUDENT, THE LONGER TIME THEY WILL NEED TO EXPLORE. Photos! Have your camera ready. You’re gonna want to capture their smiles and excitement! Stories ALWAYS make learning better Earth Day Pocket Book Save the Earth Stickers to share Globe puzzle for hands-on exploration Squishy globes To make the Earth a Prettier Place Gardening tools for kids Wooden Crate to hold all the goodies HOW DO THESE DIY CRATES WORK? Easy! Open the DIY Crate/Bag plan of your choiceGrab and download the Printable Mini-Lessons that go with the Hands-on goodiesClick and add ALL the items into your cart on Amazon or from other vendors.Set your budget and REMOVE all items that don’t fit you, your students, or your budget. As you wait for your goodies, print and prepare your lessons. FAQ- Why add everything to the cart? Because, it makes is really easy to remove and re-add things that work best for you with as little hassle as possible. SEE OUR FULL AND GROWING COLLECTION OF DIY GOODIES HERE
DIY Teaching Kids to Cook Kit How? Set a BUDGET (You can create a great crate for $25+)Load up all the goodies into your cart (Items from Teachers Pay Teachers and Amazon)From your cart, make your final selections.Download your printable lesson and prep lessons while you wait for your goodies to arrive.Watch your kids get excited …Read More »
Don’t Homeschool Your Kids Dear homeschool mom, Don’t homeschool. I’m not kidding. Yes, kids need to read and write and solve basic math problems, but they don’t need school at home. They need to have plenty of time to run, jump, slide, swing, lay, laugh, build, and rest. Related: building toys Give them time to be bored, time to think, time to day dream. Don’t give them workbooks, worksheets, and hours of assignments. Instead, give them LESS. …Read More »
DIY Heart Foldable This all began on a 4 mile walk in the rain. He wants to be a cardiothoracic surgeon, that 14-year old son of mine.Forget the fact that he’s dyslexic, a ball of energy and only an early teen. He’s diving in.It all began on a walk a few weeks ago, where we brainstormed the steps he could take to pursue this newish dream of his…… and has grown into a full emersion independent study of everything related to the heart. He’s been diving in to learning a few days a week… I showed him a cut, fold, and learn template of the heart on teachers pay teachers and said, “I’ll get it for you, but honestly I think you can create a better one yourself.Boy, was I right! …Read More »
Choosing a Chore System that Works for Your Family Inside: Age Appropriate Chores {printable} We have always believed in the philosophy that children are a welcomed addition to our family. We love, eat, live, play and WORK together as a family unit. We also make messes faster than the chicken can cross the road to prove to the opossum it can be done. … Read More »
Pincer Grasp Activities for Fine Motor Development Your son is using all of his fingers to rake small items into his palm rather than pinching them together with his thumb and index finger. Your daughter is choking her crayons rather than carefully holding them between her fingers. Maybe your kids need some help strengthening their pincher grasp The development of this fined tuned grasp is influenced by a child’s growing interest in objects and desire to hold them. Kind of curiosity’s way of helping our kids. We all need great pincher grasps to: zip zippersbutton buttonstie shoesthread needleswrite beautifullyhold pencils without crampingbeating someone at tidily-winksputting on make-uppainting nailsand so much more! 8 Hands-on Toys to Help Kids Develop Pincher Muscles Sewing Buttons!! Buy on TpT Related: Fine Motor Activity from Hands On As We Grow Super easy!! More Pincher Grasp Activities! Simple Activities to Improve Pincher Grasp and Help Your child Hold a Pencil Peel Duct Tape: Place strips of duct tape onto surfaces like the sidewalk, garage walls, or the floor. Your child simply peels the tape!Squishy Sponge: Give your child a sponge and bucket of water. Have them water plants by squeezing the water out from the sponge!Tongs and tweezers: Give your child a pair of tongs, and egg carton, and a bin of small things (pom poms, beads, pasta, etc). Have them fish out objects with tweezers and sort them into the egg carton. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07RZNG5PW/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=abett06-20&camp=1789&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=B07RZNG5PW&linkId=c20a374356badff2b7b81f0fe672daf8 Classic Games are the perfect way to sneak in Pincher Grasp Development Don’t Spill the Beans Ants in the Pants Kerplunk Jenga Hi-Ho Cherrio Perfection Medical schools are noticing a decline in students’ dexterity, possibly from spending time swiping screens rather than developing fine motor skills through woodworking and sewing.The New York Times The great news is Pincher Grasp Development is easy to weave into your child’s day. A Little less swiping of screens and a little more of old fashion fun and these intricate hand muscles can get a good work out! For Older Kids Crocheting and knitting Embroidery Tin Foil Art Using a sock to improve pencil grip (Brilliant) Print this free homeschool mom reminder. This post comes with a free printable reminder list to help keep your heart focused on the heart of homeschooling. I always have the hardest staying focused. This printable simplifies it! Here is a sneak preview… Download Your Free Printable Download the checklist. You’ll get the printable, plus join 9,000+ homeschool moms who receive my weekly parenting tips and ideas!Print. Any paper will do the trick, but card stock would be ideal.Place it on your refrigerator as a helpful reminder.
DIY Camel Bible Study Crate for Kids How? Set a BUDGET (You can create a great crate for $25+)Load up all the goodies into your cart (Items from Teachers Pay Teachers and Amazon)From your cart, make your final selections.Download your printable lesson and prep lessons while you wait for your goodies to arrive.Watch your kids get excited Bible Study Printable mini-lessons …Read More »
97+ Ideas for Making Math FUN Inside: A master list of simple, inexpensive, and fun ways to teach all the basic math principles your kids need to thrive. PLUS- Free Math Roadmap Most homeschoolers overcomplicate math with fancy curriculum, worksheets, quizzes, stop-watches and tests. We choose to be different! Related: Grab your FREE Math Roadmap Printable Stripping math back to its basic foundational core, we can set our kids up for success in life by giving them a solid foundation with allows them to add, subtract, multiply, divide, count, measure, weigh, and estimate. Most kids are not mathematicians hiding inside little bodies. They are dancers, chefs, architects, designers, farmers, mechanics, bankers, writers or yet-to-be-decideds. …Read More »
Solution for “My Child Hates School” In our Facebook group, Our Lives as Homeschool Moms, she hesitantly asked, “How long do you go without a child doing his (homeschool) work before you just enroll him in public school?” My favorite answers from other homeschool moms: …Read More »
Verb Craft and Activity Printables Verb Craft and Activity BUNDLE Hands on Verb Craft and Activities for Kids. …Read More »