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Emergent Reader Activity: Discriminating Between Words
April 20, 2011
I am currently teaching my 4 1/2 year old to read at home without a curriculum. We started with word families (you can read more about our "method" here), and…
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Favorite Picture Books, Part 2
April 19, 2011
Last month I shared some of our favorite picture books, and I have some more to add to the list! If you missed the first post on picture books for…
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"Label the House" Letter Sounds Game
March 28, 2011
This morning, Gresham was immediately on board when I handed him a stack of post-it notes and a pencil and told him that we were going to do preschool with…
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Teach Your Child to Read without a Curriculum
February 28, 2011
I am currently in the process of teaching my second child to read using mostly materials around the house, and I thought I would blog our ideas! When Aidan was…
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Favorite Chapter Books for Boys, Part 2
February 22, 2011
We have so many favorite books that it was impossible to fit them all in one post! Here are some more of our favorite chapter books for boys, and here…
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Favorite Chapter Books for Boys, Part 1
February 14, 2011
Jordan and I both enjoy reading, and we have been pleased that all of our boys love books as well! I decided to post some of our favorite books, and…
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Alphabet Running Game
February 1, 2011
We've been stuck inside the house a lot lately because of the flu and bad weather! We decided to burn off a little steam by adding running to an alphabet…
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Writing Letters in Sugar
January 25, 2011
Here's an easy idea for practicing writing the alphabet - writing in sugar! Sometimes it helps to get more of the senses involved when working on writing. We got this…
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How Big was Goliath?
December 13, 2010
Today's advent tree reading was about David and Goliath. (Well, when I say "today," I mean the one we did today, which was the reading for December 11th. But if…
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Elementary Math Bar Graph Activity
October 21, 2010
I have found that one of the best ways to get Aidan engaged in math is to put away the worksheets and do something that relates to real life. He…
