I love printables! I have used them for a few years now. There are some to be had out there on the web; however, I wanted more to choose from.
What is a printable? Simply put, it is a worksheet that you can print for your children to use. I finally started making my own and would love to share them. There are only a handful now but I will keep adding to them. Hope you enjoy, please comment and let me know how they worked for you! Visit my Printables Page.
If you have any requests, I would love to hear them! Thanks!
After checking out a ton of homeschool blogs this summer I was looking for an alphabet activity for Oliver to do, I came across an idea at totallytots.homestead.com. It is called Now I Know My ABC’s and it shows pictures of animals made from each letter in the alphabet. Here is what Oliver has made so far:
A is for AlligatorC is for CrabD is for DinosaurOliver's ABC Book
He is keeping them inside of clear sleeves in his very own ABS’s book… he likes it so much!
This is a great idea from one of my favorite blogs, the 1+1+1=1 Blog
When I was learning to count my teacher showed me this method, not sure what it is called but it helped me tremendously when learning to add and subtract. I saw this and thought it would be great for Oliver. I hand wrote the numbers and he is using cylinder shapes from the Dollar Spot at Target. On a side note, the Dollar Spot also had packs of squares and triangles, great manipulatives!
Each number has the corresponding # of dots on it.
Earlier this week I joined the Not-Back to School Blog Hop, so many homeschoolers participated, it was inspiring! Who doesn’t love a peek into someone else’s life and home. After looking at other blogs I decided to share my room, in more detail, so that others can get ideas, the way I have been getting classroom ideas.
Two blogs that played a huge role in giving me inspiration for preschool activities, classroom ideas, preschool lesson plans, and more are http://www.1plus1plus1equals1.com and http://homeschoolcreations.blogspot.com/ – a huge thank you to Carisa and Jolanthe. They have helped me so much, hope this helps someone else!
Classrooom Ideas, Morning Board:
Color of the Day – Preschooler will need to pull cards from the color folder and choose the correct one, also locate 3 items with that color.
Bible Verse of the Week – I will write the verse out and I will use Dictation to have my 1st grader fill in Book, Chapter, Verse
Weather Card – Preschooler will have to find the correct weather card for the day and hang it, while the 1st grader checks temperature and records it.
100 days countdown – I will have them alternate coloring the days off
Today’s Date – I plan on filling one option in and having my 1st grader fill in the remaining ones
Color of the Day wall pocketColor of the DayPreschool Weather Board100 Days Sheet Morning BoardToday's Date
Hope this helps with your own classroom ideas. Enjoy your day!
After looking at this site and her ideas for a Calendar board I was completely inspired. Thank you Homeschool Creations for the wonderful ideas! Here is our Calendar board:
Our Homeschool Calendar ideas from Homeschool Creations blog
We have: Todays Date, with different ways to write the date, make the date in money, color of the day, weather for temp. (1st grader will fill in daily), weather for the 4 year old to use picture cards. We also have letter of the day and verse of the day. I will also be adding the skip counting pages.
For calendar I plan on having all 3 boys participate in one way or another. I have also been looking around for center ideas, things to keep the 2 little ones busy when I need to work with my 1st grader. Carissa has so many excellent ideas on her blogs. One of them is Tot Trays. I loved all her ideas and will be using them and creating more inspired by what I have seen. Here are some things we have so far:
Basket #1 (white) – for the 2 & 4 year olds, basket #2 – Base Ten set – 1st grader
basket #1 – Pompoms for sorting, pouring, gluing, scooping, measuring, tongs, ice cube try for sorting, clothespin centers (see below), poker chips to sort and stack, pipe cleaners, eraser center (see below).
I cut a square in the lid of a take n go container, then added erasersHe puts them and then tries to retrieve themDifferent games to play with these both toddlers and preschoolersBeads, funnels and bowlsPasta, glitter and glueFoil, Pasta and glitter
Still on the lookout. Excellent places for centers: the Dollar Tree, Walmart, Big Lots. You don’t have to spend a lot and your children will learn, play and love it!
