Hello everyone! Today I thought I’d share a fun geometry activity that we did yesterday; it was easy to set up and clean up and was a good exercise in building geometric concepts and vocabulary as well as number recognition. Geometric Mural-Making: (painters tape, dice, scissors, a blank wall) My kids and I decided to [...]
Project Home School: Day 6 Yesterday we talked about exploring writing at home with our children; today I’m just going to share two other literacy activities that have been popular at my house over the past few days. Alphabet Adventure: (see images below) This is a fun literacy game that my kids have asked to [...]
Hello, all. As we head into our second week at home, I just want to send out a reminder about how I hope you’ll use this newsletter: Right now, home-schooling is working for my children’s needs for structure and order and for my own mental health needs for predictability in a time of uncertainty. If [...]
It’s been so good to hear from so many of you over the past few days letting me know how you’re doing and what is and is not working for you in your homes. Thanks for reaching out with your stories, thoughts and questions- it reminds me how fortunate I am to be part [...]
Okay, we’ve all been penned in for a couple of days and at least at our house, the novelty has worn off. So I thought I’d take a day away from walking through our schedule and take the opportunity to talk about Repurposing Things to Create New Games… something we’re all going to get the [...]
Project Home School, Day 2: Centers: Each class at our school has a Centers time every day as a way of offering children choice about their learning while building skills and having fun! I want to be clear that by choice I mean limited choice- that’s one element that makes Centers Time different from [...]
Creating a Schedule Since transitions can be bumpy for my kiddos (and for me!), we’re going to be following a schedule similar to that of school in order to help our kids stay in their familiar groove. Where it is possible to create some predictability in the day of your kiddo, maintaining a schedule [...]