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Valentine’s Day Card Learning Activities

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    Cardboard valentines make great teaching tools. I recently picked up a bunch at a dollar store to make a few learning games for JDaniel. The box I selected was filled with cards that were rectangular without fancy cutouts. They looked like they would be the easiest to work with. I also avoided cards that were scratch and sniff Continue Reading

Five Little Snowmen Song and Craft

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Five Little Snowmen is the fifth five little song and craft we have shared on the blog. There is something really fun about these rhymes.  We started with Five Little Pumpkins  as few years ago. JDaniel relearned it in kindergarten this year. He sang it over and over again. That inspired me to look for some more five little songs. Since then we Continue Reading

17 Olympic Themed Activities for Kids

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The symbols of the Olympics have inspired 17 Olympic themed activities for kids posts on this blog and for some of the posts I wrote for Kid's Activities Blog. The Olympic rings, torch, and Olympic values are each represented in the posts below. I hope you will be inspired to create them at your house or in your classroom with your Continue Reading

Kids Activities- Olympic Themed Graphs and Charts

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Olympic Themed Charts and Diagrams

I decided to create some kid's activities with an Olympic theme that feature graphs and charts. Since JDaniel started kindergarten, we have been working more and more with them. They are being emphasized a lot at this school. Providing JDaniel with opportunities to explore them while interacting with some of the sports he will see during the Continue Reading

{Homemade Giant Tangrams} Exploring Tangrams

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Homemade Giant Tangrams from a Pizza Box

  I recently served store bought pizza to my family that came in a huge cardboard box and decided the box would be great for making homemade giant tangrams. Although the bottom of the box wasn't a perfect square shape, I decided to try to cut out the tangram shapes without trimming it down to a square.  Some of the shapes ended up a little wonky Continue Reading

Great Chinese New Year Activities for Kids

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  I have some great Chinese New Year activities for kids to share with you. Chinese New Year is Friday, January 31st this year. It is one of those holidays we really enjoy celebrating at my house. I thought you might like to celebrate it too. This post shares fun meals and snacks. There are crafts and learning activities too. I am Continue Reading

Olympics for Kids: Printable Passport with Learning Activities

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It is possible to travel to the Olympics with your children using this printable Olympic passport. They won’t get to travel to the Olympic host site using the printable Olympic passport. They will learn about what a passport looks like, review basic facts about themselves, and learn a little bit about the host country as they fill it out. This Continue Reading

Finding Joy in Bleak Moments

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Finding Joy in Bleak Moments

    We can focus on the deep water covering the path we are on or find the joy of seeing a bridge at the end of it.     I have decided to find joy in the challenging situations I am in this year. Instead of making a set of New Year’s resolutions this year I am choosing to focus on joy. As I mentioned last week Continue Reading

{Number Recognition} Do You Know Five?

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When you encounter a new concept or skill for the first time, your mind may need several experiences with it to find meaning and understanding in it.  Numbers are one of those concepts. Children need to experience them through various modalities (tactical, visual, and auditory) before they have number recognition.  They also need to view them with Continue Reading

Ready For a New Year!

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Some years are just hard. They have highlights and some wonderful memories. (Those need to be remembered with joy!) None the less they are just plain hard. This year was one of those hard years at my house. Just as one thing seemed to resolve itself something else happened that was equally as challenging.  My husband had back trouble that Continue Reading

5 Little Firecrackers Craft and Song

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Five Little Firecrackers Craft and Song - This fine motor activity would be great to do for any patriotic holiday like the 4th of July. Kids can weave their own designs on the cardboard fire cracker they paint. Then they can use the to retell this fun rhyme. Kids will love having a prop to retell the rhyme. It would be fun to make for New Year's Eve too.

5 Little Firecrackers craft and song is the latest five little holiday song and craft we have done for the blog. It all started with JDaniel deciding he loved the book The Five Little Pumpkins. Since then we have explored the songs the Five Little Turkeys and Five Little Christmas Trees. I am going to be on the look out for more five little songs Continue Reading

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