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Day 2: Organizing For a Print Rich Environment

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Welcome back to 5 Days of Organizing Your Home to Promote Literacy!  If you missed day 1, click on the above image to view.   Today, I’ll focus on organizing your home to create a print rich environment. First, what is a print rich environment? Simply put, it’s an environment filled with purposeful print.  And whether you homeschool or not,…
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Day 1: Organizing Your Books

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This week, I’m honored to join 21 other bloggers as we share ideas on getting organized.  Here at This Reading Mama, I’ll spend 5 days sharing ideas on how you can ORGANIZE YOUR HOME TO PROMOTE LITERACY. Today, I’ll share some ways to organize your books, in several different categories. 1- Organizing Books for Young Children The thing that stands out the most…
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Members Only from Enchanted Homeschooling Mom {review}

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One of my blogger friends, Jill from Enchanted Homeschooling Mom, has opened up shop.  And, boy, this lady has been BUSY!  She recently gave me access to all of her printables and there were quite a few that caught my eye. The Berenstain Bear Curriculum jumped out at me because, simply put: WHO DOESN’T LOVE THESE BOOKS?!?  I can remember loving…
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My Handwriting Notebook (FREE printable)

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*This post may contain affiliate links. As a part of NJoy’s new Reading The Alphabet curriculum, I created a Handwriting Notebook for him. Inside it, I placed the plastic sheet protectors with some of his work.  (These pages are part of Lesson 2- coming FRIDAY, AUGUST 31!) I made a cover for their notebooks and wanted to share, just in…
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My Favorite Students (and Their Favorites)

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As a homeschooling mama, I have four students who are my favorite: my own!  I asked each one to tell me what they liked best about school and I got pics of them doing it. ALUV (currently 6 years old…for one more month!) Writing his watermelon story from my FREE July Writing Prompts NJOY (currently 3 years) Although he loves cutting and…
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