FREE Winter Themed Printable Materials

Holidays are over and it's time to shift our shelves from Christmas-themed to anything "wintery".  I am excited to share this month's printable learning materials.  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 your email (if not on the inbox, check the SPAM as well) for the access code.

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!

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!

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.

Pumpkin Letter and Number Cards

The pumpkin season is here!  Take a look at our beautiful pumpkin cards which are perfect for the harvest season!

FREE Beginning Letter Sound Posters and Cards (SAMPLER)

We are starting a new approach to our literacy activities.  To have some variety in our literacy activities I decided to pause our usual pink series (Beginning Letter Sound Activity Sheets) and move to Jolly Phonics.  Jolly Phonics is a curriculum used here in Ireland (and UK).  My eldest loved it, especially the action sounds that went along with the letters.

Beginning Letter Phonics Cards

Hello everyone! I wanted to share with you Vito’s current favourite printable, our Beginning Letter Phonics Cards.  You might have seen these in some of my letter-themed post.  These are card strips which contain letters and their corresponding objects (real images matching the  beginning letter sound).  The product comes in two sets: control cards and the activity cards.  Below is a glimpse of how we use the materials, which Vito would work on every day (sensitive period for letters)!

Preschool Letter R

We started our preschool unit with letter R and I divided the activities into two:  (1) phonological awareness and (2) pre-writing.  The pre-reading activities is scheduled on Mondays and pre-writing on Tuesdays.  Vito does no more than 20 minutes of “school” per day.  The rest of the activities, Vito considers it as “game” or “play”.  During “school” time, I would quit the activities once I see that he’s bored or not interested.  My experience has taught me that it’s not about the quantity of activities that I give to my kids that matter.  In fact, they get tired so easily and bored when I do that.  Especially with Vito, I learned that I should do things slowly with him, and that I should respect and follow his own timeline of learning.  Mavi was different, he absorbs anything… he’s always interested, Vito is very choosy.

Going back, this week we’re starting with the letter R. Vito can name the letters of the alphabet if he’s in the mood so I decided that I should be giving him pre-reading activities so he won’t get bored.  Below are some of the activities this week for pre-reading and pre-writing.