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Number Puzzle Racing Fun!

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*This post contains affiliate links. We adapted an idea from Little Family Fun and made a racing game out of putting a puzzle together with our Chunky Number Puzzle.  NJoy and MBug had so much fun, I wanted to share before I forgot (baby brain with #4 has been worse multiple times over!!). To practice recognizing numbers 1-20, I took the pieces…
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Writing Piggyback Stories

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Years ago, when I taught preschool music, I used a book called Piggyback Songs quite a bit.  To create a piggyback song, you write new lyrics to a familiar tune (“Twinkle, Twinkle”, etc.).  I adopted the name “piggyback” and adapted it for writing.  Piggyback Stories is what I call them and kids really do enjoy writing them.  ALuv (currently 6.5…
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Skip Counting Word Problems

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Using word problems is one way to integrate literacy into math.  I like to squeeze in as many sight words as I can for some meaningful exposure.  And word problems also reinforce comprehension, while practicing math skills. Just recently, I wrote some skip counting word problems for ALuv and typed them onto individual cards.  I simply wanted to share them!…
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A is for Apple: FREE Printables Included!

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Our last letter of the week…A!  It’s kind of funny to think we did A last.  And I’m a little sad that we’re “done” with these. I had plenty of places to find apple printables, seeing that Erica and Carisa both chose that theme for their A Weeks.  But once again, I couldn’t help but create a few of my…
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FREE Long Vowel Printables

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It’s time for some long vowel printables! To introduce ALuv {age 6} to them, I focused first on phonemic awareness.  Basically what this means is that these activities didn’t involve print…he was only listening for sounds. Download the FREE Long Vowel Listening Activities and Long Vowel Printables at the end of this post! *This pack contains affiliate links.   FREE…
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