Easter Eggs Letter and Number Cards

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

  

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.

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 (and the material has been a bestseller too), I made a similar learning pack for our frog life cycle.  The learning pack is perfect for kids aging 4 years to 7 years old, something that will grow with your child through the years.  It contains different activities for different stages of the child, all you needed to do is print the one that suits your needs.

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

Springtime is all about life cycles in our home.  And I'm often asked how do I introduce life cycles to our little ones and to those who couldn't visualize the concept of metamorphosis, larva and pupa, and etc.  It's pretty easy and simple though.  I start by telling stories that like humans, baby animals come about through their mommies and daddies.  Some start from egg and then they develop or grow into an adult just like humans.  You also need to have some learning materials to help explain these things better to  kids.  Because we are observing the "Montessori" philosophy in our homeschool, we use learning materials that can provide realistic presentations of these life cycles to the kids.  Also if possible, provide a hands-on learning experience using the same learning materials or through real life observations in nature.

St. Patrick's Day Preschool Mini Unit

I'm so excited to share our St. Patrick's Day Mini Unit!!!  I am so happy that you are loving ALL our MINI UNIT series and the FULL PRESCHOOL CENTERS!!!  We've been working on these activities for years, way back when my eldest was in preschool but I didn't publish the printables in the shop back then.  Now, I'm so happy to share them with you so you can enjoy the benefits of these as well.

Without further ado, I would like to showcase our St. Patrick's Day Mini Unit, full of fun and engaging activities for preschoolers, pre-k and kindergarten kids.  Included in this pack are activities that will let your child practice fine motor skills, alphabet tracing, hands-on math, and a lot more!  For more St. Patrick's Day themed materials you can click 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.

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 a certain season or holiday.  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!

Beginning Letter Sound Picture Mats

Here's a fun activity that Vito and I would do to practice identifying objects and their beginning letter sounds.  I usually integrate this in our letter of the week activities or just play it on its own.

Montessori Golden Beads Bank Game

Vito currently loves using our Golden Beads material.  We are done with presentation of materials and have worked the layout (Montessori Decimal System with Golden Beads) as well (we will do this again) and now he enjoys playing the Bank Game.

Collection of Winter Books for Kids

Christmas books are back in the storage and winter books are out for us to explore!  Here are some of the books we own and will be reading throughout this winter season.

Solar System and Space Preschool Mini Unit

The outerspace and solar system are one of my kids’ favorite topics at home.  They have always been fascinated with how the universe works and they love knowing their place in it.  Vito has been learning a lot about planets lately.  We worked on Space-themed activity trays last year but because he is older now, he is inquiring more and curious about it.  We worked on a couple of activities like our 3 part cards and reading the Planetarium book at night.  I also managed to make him a Waseca-biome inspired cosmic blocks which demonstrate his place in the universe.  Now, to go along with our activities, I created this mini unit pack which are extension activities that will enrich his knowledge and interest on the solar system and outerspace.  The learning pack contains 10 (plus 3 BONUS!) learning activities that your kids will surely enjoy!  Below are some previews of what to expect from our learning material.

Fun Thermometer Reading in Space

Vito loved our penguin thermometer reading activity and because of this I have to include something similar in our Outerspace Preschool Mini Unit.  This is great for learning how to recognize “tens” and for learning how to read a thermometer.

Pumpkin Themed Activity Trays for Kids

We are halfway through with our pumpkin activities and I'm sharing some of the highlights in this post!  Below are learning activities on pumpkins which are perfect for homeschoolers and those in the classroom.  I made a short description of each activity and added links to the materials that we used for you as reference.  Enjoy!

Our Collection of Autumn Books

I have a growing list of autumn books which I’d like to share with you.  This is a collection of fiction and non-fiction books, so they are perfect for kids of all ages.  We read them day and night these days to understand and appreciate this beautiful season!

Fall Leaves Counting Activities

It is finally autumn and counting leaves has never been this fun!

Apple Letter and Number Cards

I love creating matching letter and number cards for themed units!  I’ve been doing this since I homeschooled my eldest and now Vito loves it too!  Today, I’m sharing with you our beautiful apple letter and number cards which we’ve been using for years so you too can enjoy these beautiful learning materials.  These cards can be used in so many ways.  I’m giving a few ideas below but the possibilities are endless!

Fall Autumn Preschool and Kindergarten Learning Materials

I am so excited to present our beautiful Fall Autumn Preschool Unit Pack (also for kindergarten).  I carefully designed this one big bundle so my child and yours will have the best experience in learning about this colorful season of autumn.  Just like in all of our MEGA PACKS, this unit contains 30 hands-on learning activities that your kids will truly enjoy.  Below are some of the activities that we have started working already.  Some of the materials included in this pack are old activities from last year which I haven’t shared and published and Vito still loves doing them!

Learning about Insects for Home and School

Assembling unit studies is one of the things that I like doing.  Last summer, we worked on insects and I made a compilation of work which the boys did over the years on learning about these amazing animals.  You will absolutely love these ideas and they are perfect for kids from 5 to 10 years old.