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Homemade LEGO Storage Bucket

February 3, 2015 By Deirdre

JDaniel has gone huge into LEGOS which is great! He has lots of LEGOS which is fun! We have used them to work on math activities like graphing and geometry as well as building. The only problem we have had is with LEGO storage. We have tried several different types of containers. We initially had them in a great tote that used to house Continue Reading

Melting Crayons- LEGO Treat Bag Idea

February 2, 2015 By Deirdre

Have you ever seen those homemade crayon pictures on Pinterest? You know the ones made my melting your old crayons. Well, I have and I decided to make some for my son to take to school for Valentine’s Day along with the LEGO Valentine’s cards I made in treat bags. After searching the internet for the very best way to make them, I decided to try Continue Reading

Math Solver-Geometry Riddles Solved with LEGOS

January 30, 2015 By Deirdre

$Math Solver- Geometric Riddles Solved with LEGOS$

I shared with you early this week a craft activity we did for geometry practice. Today I want to share with you another learning activity that works on the same geometric concept. This activity starts with reading shape riddles and ends with children creating the shape described in the riddle. Children could easily draw the shape described Continue Reading

100th Day of School Shirt Idea

January 28, 2015 By Deirdre

We were given the assignment by JDaniel’s teacher to come up with a t-shirt for him to wear to celebrate the 100th Day of school. After searching Pinterest for 100th Day of School shirt ideas, I came across a super shirt created by Really Quite Lucky. She used a Silhouette machine to create her shirt with 100 tally marks . I don’t happen to have Continue Reading

Geometry Practice- Sides and Vertices Aliens

January 26, 2015 By Deirdre

I never dreamt that JDaniel would come home with a math homework that asked him to find the vertices of each shape on the page. He is first grade! I knew he was working on geometry last week, but I thought he would be focusing on shape identification. This past weekend I crafted some shape aliens. I wanted for us to have a learning activity Continue Reading

Math is Fun- Valentine’s Day LEGO Graphing

January 24, 2015 By Deirdre

$Math is Fun- Valentine's Day Lego Graphing$

LEGO can be used to build all kinds of things like story characters and science tools. We recently used them to work on an activity I am calling Math is Fun- Valentine's Day LEGO Graphing. My son and I built a graphing base plate using some of the oodles of bricks he has in his room. We were able to use our LEGO graphing base plate to create bar Continue Reading

Easy Valentine Crafts For Kids- I Love Ewe Sheep

January 22, 2015 By Deirdre

What fun it is to create easy valentine’s crafts that can be display in your kitchen or classroom! Earlier in the week I shared some My Heart is like a Zoo crafts. Today I want to share an “I Love Ewe” craft is just that kind of craft. It could easily be created and then hung up. It would be fun to create this Valentine’s Day craft at the Continue Reading

Valentine’s Day Crafts- My Heart Is Like A Zoo

January 21, 2015 By Deirdre

My Heart Is Like a Zoo Valentines Day Crafts

Tying together a book with crafts and learning activities based on it is a lot of fun. Recently we did just that with the book My Heart is like a Zoo. My Heart is Like a Zoo is a wonderful children’s book that compares various animals to love. What fun it is to read just how the storyteller’s heart is like each of the animals. Each illustration of Continue Reading

8 People Kids Can Give Valentines Cards

January 20, 2015 By Deirdre

When you are creating or composing Valentines cards, why not choose one or two of the groups of people below to send a card to. Each of these eight groups of people would love to receive one of your Valentines cards. Kids Could Give Valentines Cards To: Veterans There many not be time left to send them to soldiers overseas, but you could Continue Reading

Preschool Activities- Shape Sheep

January 16, 2015 By Deirdre

This shape sheep craft is one of those preschool activities that opens the door to explore shapes and gives you a cute end product. It would be great for a farm unit, The Year of the Sheep,a nursery rhyme unit or Easter. In fact I think it would one of those preschool activities that would be fun to do after reading or singing the following Continue Reading