preschool

101 Picture Books To Read Before You Grow Up

We read a lot, a half hour or more pretty much every day. Our living room, family room, and bedrooms are all lined with shelves brimming with books. It boarders on hoarding. We’re book people. I have read just about every imaginable book to Grace – board books, picture books, biographies, chapter books, encyclopedias. There [...]

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Candy Heart Learning Activities

I hesitate to buy any candy at all these days, but this homeschooling momma’s brain ran away with the educational possibilities that a bag or two of candy hearts would provide. Grace and I went looking for some on our last trip to the grocery store. I was excited to find larger than normal candy [...]

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Valentine Printables for Preschoolers

I think printable learning packs are fun. Grace likes them, too, because all of the activities involve a central theme.

The preschool packs below vary in their activities, but all include Valentine’s Day worksheets that you can print and help your preschooler to complete.

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Teaching Reading Using Sight Words Go Fish

Today, Grace had to take a fluency assessment. It was the first of two required to finish up her cyber school pre-k curriculum. Each fluency assessment is made up of five sections in which Grace reads off a series of numbers, letters, colors, or sight words in a 60-second time period. Even though she normally [...]

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Learning to Read & Write by Playing

As the academic year has progressed, Grace has grown to hate our homeschool curriculum. It’s unfortunate. I had replaced all of our fun playing as learning activities with the curriculum from a Pennsylvania-based cyber charter school. Unfortunately, the curriculum was redundant and a year or so behind her skills. After some conversations with our cyber [...]

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Fire Hose Craft for Preschoolers

Grace has been learning about community helpers. You know, teachers, police officers, firemen, bankers, grocers, God. All the normal folks. Anyway, when we talked about firemen, Grace was inspired to create a fire hose. You know me. Grace wanted a fire hose, so we made a fire hose. Fire Hose Craft for Preschoolers This was [...]

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The Pennsylvania Farm Show

I used to complain about the Pennsylvania Farm Show. When I was in high school, I was so above all that country nonsense. It was stupid, and it cramped my interesting teenage life (although I can’t remember just how). I ignored the Farm Show for many years, ambivalent but not longer inconvenienced. And then I [...]

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10 Books We Love for Preschoolers

We are big, big readers. We always have been. Grace is getting better at reading on her own, but she still prefers to be read to. The books on this book list and this book list and those listed here and here are still popular around here. These books have also found Grace’s favor recently: [...]

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Coloring the Advent

Last year, I printed some coloring pages for Gracie. Each one was like a miniature Advent calendar, divided into 24 sections, and she loved them. If you have a preschooler or an older kid who really loves to color, you should consider coloring pages for Advent. You can download the ones we used, or you [...]

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Preschool Music Crafts – Guitar & Shaker

Last week, we did a homeschool lesson on musicians. We talked about Laurie Berkner and Louis Armstrong and Elizabeth Mitchell. For each, I read a (very abbreviated) biography, we looked at a photo, and I played a song that Grace was familiar with (My Family, What a Wonderful World, and You Are My Sunshine). After [...]

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