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Moon With Craters Kids Crafts

February 16, 2015 By Deirdre

After my son showed me how to make do the Moon Pie moon cycle activity he had done at school, I brainstormed kids crafts that had a moon theme. After all it is fun to craft and snack on moon features. I really wanted the craft to have 3 dimensional element to it. While cleaning out our craft and learning activity closet, I came across a bin Continue Reading

Open and Closed LEGO Polygon Shapes

February 13, 2015 By Deirdre

Earlier in this week I shared a really cool LEGO fraction activity we did over the weekend and I bet you thought I might just be sharing a few more fraction activities. Well, they will come late. ( Yes, I do have a few more.) Just before we started working on fractions we explored some of the geometric concepts he was working on. I shared Continue Reading

Valentine Ideas- LEGO Heart Puzzle

February 10, 2015 By Deirdre

I thought a creating a heart with a message for my son out of LEGOS would be one of those Valentine ideas that he would think was fun. One afternoon last week I dumped all of his LEGOS out of the LEGO Bucket container I made for JDaniel and searched for the red LEGOS of all different shapes and sizes. I also searched for long white LEGO to build my Continue Reading

Valentine Ideas- Flower Craft for Kids

February 10, 2015 By Deirdre

Some Valentine ideas like this flower craft for kids and the "I Love Ewe" sheep craft I shared a few weeks ago come to together as you work on them. They are very organic. Some kids like to create a craft based on one they have seen done before. Others love take the materials that have been set out and craft their very one Valentine ideas. For Continue Reading

Lego Fraction Games for Kids

February 8, 2015 By Deirdre

During the last few weeks, I have shared geometry activities that focused on vertices and sides. JDaniel got make geometry aliens and explore geometry riddles with LEGO at home to re-enforce the skills he was working on at school. If he was working on geometry at school and it made sense to review those concepts at home. Now he is moving Continue Reading

Moon Pie Moon Cycle Activity

February 5, 2015 By Deirdre

“Have you ever had a Moon Pie?” JDaniel asked me when he got into the car a couple of weeks ago after school. “Why? Yes, I have,” I replied. “ Did you know you could learn about the moon cycle with one?” JDaniel queried. “Can you tell me how you did your Moon Pie moon cycle phases activity?” I asked him. “No,” he said, “I will have to show Continue Reading

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