CVC Word Building Printables

Before the year ends, I would like to introduce a new series of literacy materials in our shop: Thematic CVC Word Building materials and activities that are perfect for centers and homeschool settings. This HANDS-ON CVC WORD BUILDING Activity Pack is one of the favorite activity from our MEGA UNITS. It is a hands-on activity for learning, reading and forming CVC words and promotes imaginary play.

Coding Lessons for Kids Using BBC Microbit Robot Car

I've finally selected the platform that I will use in introducing Vito to programming.  We got this programmable car MAQUEEN from DFROBOT.  My reasons for selecting this toy are: simple to assemble, no operating system setup needed, web based visual programming editor, and abundance of peripherals that can be programmed such as: motors, LED lights, RGB lights, LED matrix display, distance sensor, temperature sensor, push buttons, infrared sensor, speaker, and so on.

Vito is still very young at this stage, 6 years old, to learn programming but with my supervision and thru play I hope to introduce him to the exciting things that can be done with programming.

FREE Gingerbread Man Addition to 10 Ten Frames

I have another gingerbread freebie for you! This one is for kids who loves addition activities like my boy.

FREE Twelve Days of Christmas Picture Sequencing

Own a copy of our 12 Days of Christmas Sequencing Cards available for FREE download in the blog.

CVC Word Search for Literacy plus FREE Sampler!

Every cold winter season I always find ways to keep my little one entertained at home, as we can't spend time outdoors, my little one is always restless, asking for something to do!  And honestly, most of the time, I'm not in the mood for experiments and doing something messy with the boys (coz its winter LOL).  So I try to come up with easy to prepare but engaging activities to feed his energy.  And just like the classic old CONNECT THE DOTS activities, here's another NO PREP printable that kept him "working" in the afternoon when he's all "I NEED TO DO SOMETHING MOMMY".

Classic Connect the Dots Activities for Kids

Are you trying to find ways to keep your kids entertained and busy? Try our CONNECT THE DOTS - HOLIDAY EDITION this Christmas and winter season! My kids love these connect the dots activity sheets I made for them, mostly for calming down and quiet time.  They're so easy to use and NO PREP AT ALL.  Simply print and you're ready to go!

The Story of Christmas - Sequencing Activity

Earlier today, Vito and I spent a delightful time creating our Nativity Sequencing Story to celebrate Advent. In the past few days, we have been reading various books on the Christmas story, and today, we worked on some extension activities to practice some skills that I will mention below.

FREE Christmas Themed Printable Materials

For the month of December and for celebrating Christmas, I am happy to share these printable learning materials for you to enjoy and use in your homes and schools this holiday season!  Be sure to subscribe and sign up for our newsletter to be able to get access to these files.  And if you are a subscriber already, be sure to check on your emails for the new member's access code!

Hands-on Less and More Counting Activities

I'm so happy to share our updated Holiday and Seasonal themed packs of our MORE OR LESS / COMPARING NUMBERS Activities in the shop.  I had a great time using these learning materials with Vito years ago when he was just beginning to learn about numbers and quantities.  To give you an idea on how we conducted the activity check it here, CHRISTMAS THEMED PACK with manipulatives.  The picture below is Vito's work.  He's still learning so he has a mistake in this one.

Coding Robot Toys Wishlist for 2019

I'm preparing to introduce Vito to programming this coming year. I was planning to start with visual based programming or block based programming such as Scratch which Mavi used in his CoderDojo classes in the past years. But based on my recent research there are already a lot of kids toys these days that can be programmed with visual blocks. One class of toys make use of the BBC Microbit Makecode programming blocks. So for a more hands-on method to introducing or experiencing programming we plan to use some of the toys listed below.

I hope this list may be useful to you so your students can have a fun way to learn and be introduced to programming. And yes, these Programmable Robot toys can be good Christmas presents as well!!!

Life Cycle Learning Activity Packs

I added some life cycle sets in the shop and today I want to present the activities included in each set to give you an idea on how to use them.  I hope you will find this guide helpful.  If you have any questions you can post them in the comment section of this post or message me a question in my printable shop.

Halloween Preschool and Kindergarten Math and Literacy Centers

Better late than never!  I am happy to present our Halloween Math and Literacy Centers designed for preschoolers and kindergartens.  Like the rest of our mega and mini packs, the bestsellers in our shop, this mega unit contains 30 fun and engaging hands-on activities that your kids and students will surely enjoy.  Below are some of my favorite activities at home; enjoy the preview!

FREE Apple Shape Matching Cards

We worked on our Apple Unit weeks ago and I'd like to share this beautiful apple-shape matching activity, designed for young learners.

Simple Food Preparation and Recipe Ideas for Kids

It's the 12 Months of Montessori and today I'm excited to share simple recipes that your kids (with your assistance) can try at home.  These are so easy to prepare and will help our little ones develop and improve fine motor and practical life skills.

FREE English-Filipino Weather 3 Part Cards

As promised, I'm sharing our ENGLISH-FILIPINO WEATHER 3 PART CARDS.  The boys are learning how to speak in Filipino and wanted to widen their vocabulary in Filipino language so we're integrating it in our afterschool activities.

Addition Worksheets and Activities - Apple Theme

Play pretend of apple picking to sort out addition equations!  There's nothing more enjoyable than learning math and playing at the same time.  This ADDITION WORKSHEETS AND ACTIVITIES PACKET is perfect for kindergartens up to grade 1 and requires minimal preparation! This was designed for learning and mastering addition facts from 1 to 10.

Collection of Weather Books for Kids

Sharing our book collection on weather.  These are so easy to read to a child, and less cartoonish... perfect for preschoolers and older kids as well.

FREE Properties of Water Sorting Cards

Part of our Weather Unit Study is learning about factors that affect weather, like water and temperature.  We discussed the 3 states of matter that water takes: solid, liquid and gas and that heat is needed in order for the change to happen.

Weather Activity Trays for Kindergarten and First Graders

In this 12 Months of Montessori, I want to feature our Weather Activity Trays for Autumn/Fall. Change of season is always exciting and it is just right that we do some weather studies before the new season arrives.


Kids are always fascinated with the weather as this is something that they have experienced. Just by going outside and observing the sky, you can talk to your child about the weather, is it sunny? rainy? cloudy? windy? Sometimes they also get to watch this on TV or on the weather forecast news. Thus they become familiar with some words. To expand your child's curiosity about the weather and advance his/her knowledge, here are some activities that you might want to try.

9 Best Insect Science Activities on Instagram

You all know that I love Instagram! Aside from Pinterest, this is one of the best places to look for inspirations for home and school educational activities.   Recently, I have the courage to ask my followers to join my occasional  roundup posts based on the themes that we have for "home" school.  I'm so happy that there tons who participated and with that, I'm happy to share 9 inspiration activities amazing accounts.  Be sure to check their websites and Instagram account for more inspirations!

Insect Themed Lesson Plans for Kindergarten to First Grade

We are about to conclude our INSECT UNIT which we have been working on for the past two weeks and I am so happy to finally share the lesson plan that I made for my Kindergarten.  Now, though this is designed for my almost 6 year old boy, this unit study is also appropriate for kids from 5 years and older.  We have done tons of identification and sensorial activities previously on this subject area and this year, we’re doing some advanced work.

Safari Toob Theme Teaching Resources

I am so excited to bring to you 16+ activity learning packs to go along with your favorite Safari Toob educational toys.  As you all know, we've been collecting these animal figure sets for a decade now and has been a helpful learning tool in our homeschool journey. With my experience in homeschooling and designing activities to go along with our toob sets, I decided to publish the printables I made for these toys.  With these printable packs, you and your kids can exhaust the use of these animal toobs and go beyond the typical matching activity.

For more details on some of the themed packs you can also check some of the posts below:

• Insect Theme Toob Printable Learning Materials
• Farm Theme Toob Printable Learning Materials
• Ocean Theme Toob Printable Learning Materials

Insect Theme Toob Printable Learning Materials

Here’s a comprehensive activity pack with your Safari Toob Insect set.  This INSECT TOOB LEARNING PACK learning material contains tons of extension activities that include science, language, math and fine motor skills.  And, of course, this learning material uses HIGH-QUALITY REAL IMAGES of the animals!

Food and Nutrition Themed Shelf

Vito is currently obsessed with our Let's Read and Find Out Series.  I've started reading the level 1 series to him since April and he's hooked into it.  There are tons of books in the level 1 series that he's currently obsessed with but one book stands out, What's for Lunch.  The book introduces the basic food groups to children.  I was totally surprised about his interest in this subject area.  He's becoming curious of what he eats lately and drinking more milk than usual.

Food Pyramid and Food Groups Activities for Kids

Vito loves the book, What's for Lunch?!  He loves learning all about the food groups, on what food will help him have stronger bones and teeth, food that will give him energy, and food that will keep him healthy.  I love that he developed this interest early on.  I think that it's important to educate little ones about healthy food because right now, he's super conscious on what he eats, and he's more eager to eat fruits, drink lots of milk and water!

Come take a look at some of the learning activities that we worked on to support his interest on food.

Summer Preschool and Kindergarten Math and Literacy Centers

And it's finally here! Our Summer Preschool and Kindergarten Math and Literacy Centers for all the summer-themed activities you will need for your summer learning camps.  The learning pack contains 30 exercises, and it includes activities for improving fine motor skills, color matching, learning numbers, letters, phonics, and much much more!

Below are some of the activities included in this amazing learning pack. 

Playing Flockmen in Five Fun Ways

By now, you have heard about Flockmen.  You've seen it everywhere, from Instagram, to Facebook and homeschool moms and Montessori/Waldorf schools and families.  Flockmen are wooden toys which take the form of little men and are used for open ended play.  By default, most people use them for building structures by stacking Flockmen together.  But in our home we use them in a lot of ways and I'm going to highlight five of these fun ways we use our Flockmen.

Family Travels with Montessori Friendly Tips

I'm participating in this month's 12 Months of Montessori and I'm featuring tried and tested family travel tips for a stress free and enjoyable holiday that you might be embarking this summer.

World History: Ancient Times Learning Materials

I'm so excited to share with you our Ancient History Learning Pack.  I made this product 4 years ago but I didn't really have the time to explain how to use this or how we are using this at home.  Let me say that I finally updated the product and there are now 2 sets available to cater to the needs of other Montessori families and schools.  This post is not a tutorial but it will explain each set in the learning pack, how we use each them and how you may benefit from them.

Introducing the 6 Kingdoms of Life

Months ago, after watching an episode of Brainchild on Netflix, the boys got super interested with knowing more about bacteria.  They have so many questions about the biodiversity of life such as, if  a bacteria is an animal or a plant? is it an alien species? The curiosity  and eagerness to learn led me to introduce the Six Kingdoms of Life.


I know, this is elementary work, but I managed to pull-out activities that worked perfectly for both boys (10 and 5 years old).

Montessori Inspired Europe Continent Study for Kids Part I

With our recent trip to Spain, I decided to do a brief Europe Unit for Vito while he still can't stop talking about his plane ride and how fun it was to go to places.  The activity trays I prepared for him are designed for kids 5 years and older.  This is the first part of our unit and most of these are introductory lessons to maps and flags.  I've never had a Europe Unit with him before so I kept this simple and we'll be doing more in-depth activities as he progresses.

The Many Ways we Use Sarah's Silks

Sarah's Silks has been one of our "must haves" for years.  I've been seeing them everywhere from Facebook, Pinterest, Instagram, and even my fellow homeschooling mom friends have been using them for years too.  Thus, I was totally excited when Sarah sent me an entire collection of her Enchanted Playsilks for the boys to use and play!  When it finally arrived, the boys immediately used them for hours of play and have been one of their most used "toys" since then.

Dogs Breed Letter and Number Cards

Do you like dogs? My kids do! They're just so irresistible!  With all the dogs we are seeing around the estate, I decided to make DOGS BREED LETTERS AND NUMBER CARDS to all dog lovers out there.  These are the cutest!  I hope your kids and students will enjoy the cards as much as we do!

Easter Eggs Letter and Number Cards

Our Easter Egg Letter and Number Cards set is now up in our shop, ready for you to enjoy and use in your thematic activities this Lent and Easter season!

Bible Stories Sequencing Activity Cards

We love telling and hearing Bible stories at home!  Especially in this season of Lent and as preparation for the upcoming Easter celebration.

Spring Fine Motor Skills and STEM Activities

I created this fun and engaging activities for my boys who love to tinker and do creative stuff with some of our manipulatives.  They would often work on these on weekend mornings during our quiet time or on weeknights before dinner.

Animal Characteristics (Vertebrates) Learning Pack

Introducing our Animal Characteristics (Vertebrate) Pack with tons of activity sets that will suite your young students' needs.  This learning material is more than just sorting or matching activities.  What we have in this learning pack are realistic illustrations of each characteristics for better retention of concepts and tons of hands-on learning opportunities for young students to work on.  This Montessori Vertebrate Characteristics learning pack was basically designed for children ages 5 years and older.

With this learning material, your students will be able to learn the characteristics of amphibians, mammals, reptiles, fish, and birds through visual representation and hands-on activities.  There are 8 characteristics provided for each animal for you to explore.

March Springtime Shelf Activities

Featuring our activities and learning materials for March.  Rotation of activities would usually take about 3-4 weeks now because Vito would mostly be spending time outdoors since the weather is starting to get warmer.  Feel free to implement these learning activities in your home schooling and in your classrooms.  Details and links to materials used are also provided and if you have further questions just leave it in the comment section below.

Life Cycle of a Frog Learning Activities

Nothing beats hands-on learning, but because we have no access to tadpoles and frogs, we just rely on books, educational toys and create meaningful materials to achieve the "hands-on experience".  With the success of our Water Cycle activities, I made a similar learning pack for our frog life cycle.  The learning pack is perfect for kids ages 4 to 7 years old, something that will grow with your child through the years.  It contains different activities for different stages of learning for the child. All you needed to do is print the one that suits your needs.

Parts of a Frog Learning Materials for Kids

We are learning about frogs and we started our unit by learning about the body parts because Vito wanted to know if they are similar to his (to humans).  Again, our Parts of a Frog Learning (ZOOLOGY BUNDLE Pack) came in handy in exploring the body parts of a frog and the activity sheets I included in the pack were really helpful in extending the learning activity for enhancing the retention of concepts.

If you are a homeschooler or a teacher looking for learning materials about frogs, then continue reading this post to learn more about this learning material and the activities that we worked on.  The cards are simple and clear and are easy for young learners to use.  The activity sheets are provided as I have observed through the years that these materials for tracing, coloring, and making booklets are effective in engaging young learners.

Spring Preschool and Kindergarten Learning Materials

Spring starts tomorrow, and I am excited to share our SPRING PRESCHOOL MATH AND LITERACY PACK. These are designed for preschoolers, kindergarteners, and kids ages 3 to 6. The pack contains 30 activities, including movements for improving fine motor skills, colour matching, learning numbers, letters, phonics, and much more!

Check out the previews below for details to give you an idea of what you will get in this learning material.

Montessori Inspired Blue Series - Learning about Consonant Blends

With Vito reading CVC words and sight words, we are now moving to the Blue Series.  The Blue Series is a Montessori approach in learning consonant blends and digraphs.  I made an entire set of blue series materials for Vito to use in the course of his learning.  We will work on these materials  and move on to the next set as he progresses.  In this post, I will give you an overview of the materials and how we are going to use them.

It is important to note that the blue series (blends and digraphs) comes after the pink series.  Once the child is familiar with letter sounds and can basically read CVC words (pink series) then he/she can move on to the blue series.

Introducing Life Cycles to Younger Kids

In our home, springtime brings a renewed focus on the topic of life cycles. As a parent, I am often asked how to introduce the concept of metamorphosis, larva, pupa and more to young children who may not be able to visualize these processes. It is a fascinating subject that is easy to understand. I begin by telling engaging stories that help children understand that just like humans, baby animals come from their mothers and fathers. Some animals start their life as eggs and then undergo a gradual transformation that ultimately leads to adulthood. 

To help explain these concepts more effectively, we use a variety of learning materials that bring these life cycles to life for children. As we follow the "Montessori" philosophy in our homeschool, we prefer to use hands-on learning experiences that allow children to explore and learn in a natural way. Whether it's using specialized learning materials or observing real-life examples in nature, we strive to make learning about life cycles as engaging and interactive as possible.

St. Patrick's Day Letter and Number Cards

Because we are excited to celebrate St. Patrick's Day, I published these beautiful letter and number cards in the shop which you can now enjoy! These are perfect for your St. Patrick's Day themed homeschool and classroom literacy and math centers, for preschool, prek and kindergarten.

St. Patrick's Day Preschool Mini Unit

I'm so excited to share our St. Patrick's Day Mini Unit!!!  I am delighted to hear that you are enjoying all of our Mini Unit series and Full Preschool Centers! We have been developing these activities for years, ever since my eldest child was in preschool. However, I did not share the printables in the shop back then. Now, I am thrilled to be able to share them with you so that you can enjoy the benefits of these resources too.

I am pleased to present our St. Patrick's Day Mini Unit, packed with enjoyable and stimulating activities for preschoolers, pre-k, and kindergarten children. This package includes various activities to help your child practice fine motor skills, alphabet tracing, hands-on math, and more! If you want more St. Patrick's Day-themed materials, please visit our website by clicking here.

Learning About Sharks for Kids

Vito has been really interested in sharks lately.  We had some Shark Unit Study (Montessori Inspired Shark Study for Kids) years ago together with my eldest, but Vito was so young then that all he could ever do was do some simple matching activity with our Safari Toob Sharks.  Now that he's a bit older, I prepared some simple activities for him to learn more about sharks, what's their difference with whales, and how similar are they to humans.

St. Patrick's Day Numbers 1-10 Counting Activities for Kids

Today I'm sharing our collection of St. Patrick's Day math activities that you can try with your kids in school or in a homeschool setting.  Aside from learning how to recognize numbers, how to count, and 1:1 correspondence, your child will get to enhance their fine motor skills with these fun and engaging math printable materials!

Larsen Puzzles

We love our Larsen puzzles! They're just so beautiful!

Asia Continent Study for Kids

We love to travel and going to places, thus geography is very important in our homeschool and I make sure that we do continent and country studies yearly.  Now, this is not the first time I introduced Vito to Asia.  We've worked with a lot of continent activities before and because he is much older now and able to understand and grasp concepts, I reintroduced Asia once again.  Below are some of the works we had for the past 2 weeks we spent on learning about Asia.  It took us 2 weeks to finish because he got sick within the time frame so we paused in between.

Here are some of the activities that we included in this year's Asia Study:

Valentine's Day Letter and Number Cards

What I like about homeschooling is being able to make themed materials for my kids that will go along with certain seasons or holidays.  Because Valentine's Day is just around the corner, I made these beautiful and cute teddy and heart letter and number cards perfect for home and school settings.  We use these types of learning cards in so many ways, and I have listed a few of those activities below for your reference.  Enjoy!