Nursery Rhyme Stuff

Great Nursery Rhyme stuff especially sequencing cards. Check it out here.

Book Recomendations

These are some of the books I have been reading, enjoying and using for mommy schooling it.

The Well Trained Mind - a homeschooling classical approach to education

Math Experiences for Young Learners - pk-k math activities

Before Five in a Row - using literature to play and teach young children, also has a section of ideas for things to do with 2 - 4 year olds

The Complete Daily Curriculum For Early Childhood - has great theme studies and ideas for activities based on multiple intelligences and learning styles

Story S-t-r-e-t-c-h-e-r-s for Infant, Toddlers, and Twos - activities to do with little ones based on books that you read to them.

Books that I am spying:
Slow and Steady Get Me Ready
Words Their Way

Ready at Five

Ready at Five has some fun activity cards that are relatively easy to do and mostly use things around the house already. They cover language, physical, math, science, social studies, and art.

Awesome Lapbook Site!

This an awesome sight for literature based lapbooks. It fits really well with the Before Five in A Row curriculum I have for Angel Girl but it also has great stuff for non B4FIAR.

Best Time of Year!

School supply sales are on! My plans are mostly to update my art supplies with crayons, markers, colored pencils, glue sticks, and watercolor paints. But I love just browsing through the world of new school supplies, it makes me want to get ready for a new year of teaching my babies!

Ways We Learned This Week

or having too much fun with family to do formal mommy school.

The best part of mommy schooling is that there are no rules, no hard fast times, or lessons that have to be done. Rather it is about exposing through lessons that are like play, at least for the little. Angel Girl spent almost everyday outside experimenting with sand and water. She learned that water and sand makes mud...that adding water to a full bucket of sand makes the water come out (I think that would be a lesson in volume :))

We studied gravity and physics when she experimented with dumping sand out from the highest height she could reach or when she tossed the sand out and had it land in Sweet Boy's hair.

We learned about cause and effect. That when you push a cousin and take their toy they usually push you back and take the toy back.

We learned about music when she got her new "flute" to play all day long! And practicing the lyrics to "Defying Gravity" in the car.

We did some practical life activities of cleaning the windows with bubble solution, washing Barbie's hair, and thoroughly cleaning her trike with the pool water.

We did some biology at the zoo, and the aquarium. Paleontology at the Dinosaur Musuem and just had fun riding the "Dinosaur" train (pretty much any train we could find).

In the mean time we have started reading Charlottes' Web right before nap time with Angel Girl...and she depends on hearing it to fall asleep easily. Sweet Boy has been listening to the Little House.

Mommy has gotten some new fun books for teaching through nursery rhymes, extending stories with the baby, and some great new math games.

We have also been working on upping Angel Girl's sensory input through foam, moon sand, playdough, and water. It seems to be working she really seems to do better with a high sensory diet.

The best part of learning is the part that happens when we are living life and having fun!