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.

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!

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.

Christmas Preschool and Kindergarten Learning Materials

Christmas is just around the corner and I am so excited to share what’s within our preschool unit in this happiest and most colorful time of the year!  These activities are perfect for home and school setting.  They are designed for preschoolers and kindergartens specifically for kids ages 3 to 6 years old.

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.

Christmas Themed Counting Activities

Can you believe that it’s Christmas time in less than 2 months?  With this holiday season coming, I’d like to share this fun Christmas tree decorating and counting activity.  I made this last year but didn’t make it to the blog and shop.  The boys had so much fun putting “decors” into their tree with playdough.  You might want to check this out.

Seasonal Pattern Blocks Mats (with FREE Download)

I am so excited to share the latest craze in our house lately, the pattern block mats!  I made these printable materials because my boys are totally obsessed with making “pictures” and objects using our pattern blocks (bought from Amazon).  We own this and the magnetic version since Vito was a baby but the boys’ needs keep growing and I decided to provide them with picture mats so they can create not just plain pattern block objects but objects that integrate in beautiful backgrounds for a more imaginative play.  The best thing about this printable is that we can print and reuse them over and over again!

Candy Corn Letter and Number Cards

Happy first day of October!!!  I can already smell Halloween in the air!  The boys got their costumes  and are so excited for Halloween!  Speaking of which, I’m so excited to introduce our Candy Corn Letter and Number Cards.  These will be perfect for your Halloween-themed activities for the month of October.  Read on and take a look!

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!

Life Cycle of Apples for Preschoolers

Autumn time is apple season and the perfect time to learn about them!  We started our “apple” week last Monday and today Vito and I just finished learning where apples came from.  I was so inspired by our Water Cycle activity (Vito loved this activity so much!) that I decided to do the same approach with our apple study.

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.

Montessori Teens and Tens Extension Work

A few weeks ago, I shared some of the extension works that Vito was doing on the teens and the tens in my Instagram.  We didn’t own the complete set of Sequin Boards so I decided to make our own materials to be able to do more exercises and not be limited by the boards.  I have talked about learning about teens the Montessori way here and in this post.  In this post, I will give you a walk-through of how we learn more about the tens and how we practice counting bigger numbers (from 11 to 100).

Back to School Preschool and Kindergarten Learning Materials

School is just around the corner and I have prepared a COMPLETE back to school set that you will totally love!  All activities that you need to get your kids and students to be in the mood for exploring, learning, and practicing their fine motor skills are included in this set of preschool activities.  There are 30 activities in this set, all engaging and encourages hands-on learning.  I am sharing a few activities here so you will have a better idea of what you will be expecting from our BACK TO SCHOOL PACK.

Preschool Learning Zoo Unit Pack

I am so happy to share with you our Zoo Preschool Literacy and Preschool Math Learning Materials. Similar to our popular Ocean Unit Preschool Learning Materials, our Zoo Unit also contains 30 fantastic and engaging learning activities that your little ones will definitely love!  To give you an idea on what learning activities can be done with these amazing materials below are some of the activities that Vito worked on early this month.

Learning Number Bonds with Ten Frames

Years ago, I made a post about number bonds and how my eldest used it at home to learn basic addition.  And now I’m working with it again with Vito, my almost 5 years old boy.  Months ago, he discovered the joy of adding numbers using his fingers so we started with basic addition using the Montessori Addition board.  He got tired with it quite a bit so I introduced number bonds.

Preschool Unit Ocean Learning Pack

Summer is finally here and look what I have for you! 30 ACTIVITIES for your PRESCHOOLERS all about sea life and the ocean!  This learning pack is a collection of activities we worked on for years at home with my two boys and has everything you need for weeks or a month long of learning.  These are engaging, educational, and most importantly fun!  Most of the activities encourages the parent/teacher to use manipulatives which promotes hands-on and play-based learning.  These activities are designed for 3-4 years old (preschoolers or kindergarten) and they aim to immerse the child in the concepts rather than force them to memorize.


Here’s a glimpse of the activities included in this learning pack:

World Continents Activity Using Playdough

We’ve done a lot of world continents activities for the past years but this has got to be one of the boys’ favorites!  We had so much fun forming the continents with our playdough.  This is such a lovely learning activity not just about continents but a fun way to keep those little fingers at work, promoting hand-eye coordination and concentration.

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.

Real Life 3D Activity Cards

As an extension work for our Montessori Solids and real life 2D Shapes activities, Vito and I had fun working on our 3D real life activity cards weeks ago.  We used our geometric solids so Vito can have a real understanding of what these objects look and feel like.  To know more about these solids, I talked about it here.  If these are not available, Amazon carries Learning Resources 3D materials which are perfect alternatives for these Montessori solids.

Life Cycle Activities for Kids

Life cycles have fascinated my kids throughout the years. We often worked on them during springtime, but I would sometimes add them in our animal or plant studies too.  I’m often asked how do I introduce this subject area to my kids and I would always say that it really depends on their age and interest. For the young ones, it’s all about play-based learning and storytelling.  While for older kids, they are drawn towards the details and the science behind them.

To give you an idea, here’s our progressive way of learning the life cycles.