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FREE Contraction Printables for Teaching Contractions

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I made up a few FREE Contraction Printables for teaching contractions to ALuv {6 years old} and wanted to share them! {Find the download link at the end of this post.} *This post contains affiliate links.   FREE Contraction Printables for Teaching Contractions In the free printable pack, you’ll find: 1. Contraction Concentration: The cards have sentences that the student reads (written…
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More FREE Rain Printables!!

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Last week, I made a few printables to go with our rain/rainbow theme.  This week, I went ahead and made some more, as we are continuing the theme (adding in some letter u activities from Erica & Carisa).  I’m not sure we’ll use all of these, but I was in the mood to make some extras!  Enjoy!   The first two printables focus…
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Rain and Rainbows: Part 1

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This past week, I was literally flying by the seat of my pants with NJoy’s homeschool work.  I had not really planned on doing anything new with him since I didn’t with ALuv.  But 2 Teaching Mommies inspired me with their Rain Unit and I got to work making some printables to go with our theme. Although NJoy was excited…
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A Week of Review

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I was very ambitious before NSis came.  I created a folder full of things for ALuv to do every day for school; even things to do while I was still in the hospital.  I also adapted an idea I found online for NJoy to work on.  Did any of it happen?  Two days of it…I guess I forgot how sleep deprivation…
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Crafting & Writing About Clouds

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To prepare for our rain/rainbow unit, I went through all the books on the boys’ shelf in their bedroom and found It Looked Like Spilt Milk.  I honestly had forgotten all about this book!  After I read it aloud, this very simple craft/writing activity popped into my head for the boys to do: Materials: blue construction paper blank writing paper cotton balls…
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