JDaniel4s Mom

How to Make a Leprechaun Trap

March 7, 2015 By Deirdre

Every year leprechauns spread chaos and leave small green footprints in classrooms and kitchens everywhere! Well, enough is enough! We decided that we needed to create a leprechaun trap to catch the one that visits our house. I thought I would walk you through the steps we went through to create our trap so, you can create a trap to try to catch Continue Reading

Learning Games for Kids- Jumping the Rainbow

March 5, 2015 By Deirdre

Learning games for kids that work on many skills are amazing. This Jumping the Rainbow game works in fine motor skills, estimating and problems solving. We played a similar game this summer at my house called Landing Spot On! Jumping the Rainbow involved trying to use a button to make a gold coin jump off a section of the rainbow and into a black Continue Reading

Crafts for Kids- Rainbow Collage of Colors

March 4, 2015 By Deirdre

We end up with a number of magazines. JDaniel gets two in the mail. I get two in the mail. We get some from my mother in law. Seeing that the magazine pile was getting a little bit tall I decided it was time to do a craft with them. ( We have done a number of crafts with recycled materials.) It would be fun I decided to search for rainbow Continue Reading

Kindergarten Worksheets- Gold Coin Number Mats

March 1, 2015 By Deirdre

$Kindergarten Worksheets- Gold Coin Math Mats$

Gold coins are great to use for counting pirate or leprechaun treasure. We got a whole bunch of them to use in a pirate vowel drop game this summer. Those same gold coins were used to count and add on using the gold coin number work mats on this kindergarten worksheets I created. It is great when things can be used in multiple Continue Reading

St Pattys Day Rainbow Folder Game

February 26, 2015 By Deirdre

When I taught second grade, my students always wrote stories about a leprechaun crossing a rainbow from Ireland right to the playground outside our classroom window on St Pattys Day. I even wrote a version of this story starter for my son. This rainbow crossing file folder game reminds me of those stories. Our little leprechauns Continue Reading

Learning Activities with Dr Seuss Characters

February 25, 2015 By Deirdre

Dr Seuss characters are fun to learn along with on Dr Seuss' birthday (March 2nd) and well any time of the year really. Children see characters that they know and get excited about getting to play and learn with them outside of their books. I have created at number for learning games and activities the feature Dr Seuss characters over the last few Continue Reading

Holiday Crafts for Kids- Rainbow Place Mat

February 23, 2015 By Deirdre

Holiday Crafts for Kids- Rainbow (featured)

I remember weaving place mats as being one of those holiday crafts for kids that I did often when I was little. In preschool and early elementary school I must have made one for every major holiday. My teachers must have known it was a great fine motor activity! Maybe they just like to have us weave mats! A rainbow woven place mat seemed Continue Reading

Lorax Truffula Tree Sight Words Game

February 21, 2015 By Deirdre

We used this truffula tree game board to work on spelling words, but I think it could be used to work on any number of learning concepts. (The Lorax learning mat I shared earlier in the week worked that way too.) By creating file folder game boards without a specific skill displayed on them we can use them for lots of different Continue Reading

Doctor Seuss Math Game- Lorax Adding

February 20, 2015 By Deirdre

$doctor seuss math game lorax adding with file folder$

The Lorax is one of our favorite Doctor Seuss books. One year for Doctor Seuss' birthday (March 2nd) I made JDaniel a Lorax lunch. This year I made a fun file folder game with the Lorax for JDaniel. We used this game space to work on addition facts. It could be used to work on a wide variety of skills. I will walk you through how we used it for Continue Reading

Building Blocks Activity- Creating Shamrocks

February 18, 2015 By Deirdre

It is amazing how ways you can use building blocks. My son and have created water parks and tall buildings with them. Recently I challenged him to help me create shamrock silhouettes and then select matching building blocks to place on them. We found that the blocks needed to be rotated to get silhouettes that looked close to Continue Reading

Hexbug Rainbow LEGO Track

February 17, 2015 By Deirdre

This past Christmas was the year of the LEGO influx at my house. We have been doing a lot of learning activities with them since Christmas. We have worked on fractions and geometry with LEGOS as well as a number of other activities. Last year was the year of the Hexbug. We have tons of them too. I decide to combine LEGOS and the Hexbugs to Continue Reading