Do-A-Dot worksheets (the worksheets are in the Confessions of a Homeschooler Letter of the Week curriculum) Just a worksheet with places to put dots to make the letters. Like the foam cubes activity, this is something that can incorporate patterning at a later date. Eion’s and Emma’s on the top, mine on the bottom. Whenever [...]

More of our new activities. Foam cubes on the letters – I tried to encourage Eion to do the blocks in a color pattern, but he wasn’t having it today, lol. Emma didn’t finish hers, but that’s 100% okay. It’s more that she wants to do whatever Eion is doing so I gave her one [...]

Phonics blocks – from, you guessed it, CoaH Roll the blocks, see what word we can come up with. I watched as he rolled them and if there were not any words available with the combination he already had, he re-rolled the block. I , of course, helped him find words. In the future this [...]

I haven’t had a good late-night ramble in a while, but the time has apparently come. The kids and I were at the library today when something happened. It’s one of those things that can be interpreted in two different ways. Let me set the scene for you. Public library, quite a few kids in [...]

I have sprouts! And not the kidlet kind, although I, of course, have those too. One of the ingredients in the Perfect Protein Salad I like are alfalfa sprouts, which I could not find at the grocery store. The other day I was in the natural foods store for … something, can’t remember what … [...]

I’ve decided that, although I am still technically a first time mom (we all are forever if you think about it as it will always be our first time mom-ing a child of a certain age whether that child is 4 or 44), my blog needs a new name. Initially this blog was about what [...]

I’ve been looking at these tools for a while but hadn’t gotten them. Changed that yesterday, lol. Learning Palette Turns out that this is from a local company right here in Layton, UT, but their products are available all over the country. It’s another in a long line of self-correcting type tools. This is the [...]