Octopus O
Here’s what you’ll need to make your Octopus O: blue, orange, and green construction paper, a marker, scissors, glue, and googly eyes. 1. Trace your child’s hands on orange paper (orange for “o”). 2. Cut them out as well as…
Reading Comprehension Beach Ball
In my opinion, there are 3 main components involved in teaching a young child to read: Phonemic Awareness (learning the sounds each individual letter makes), Sight Words (recognizing specific words instantly) and Comprehension (relating to the story and remembering specific information…
Transportation Song and Pretend Play
Singing is a great way to introduce your child to language in a fun and meaningful way! Kids love to sing! Even if you think you have a terrible singing voice (like I do), swallow your pride and sing. You’ll…
Alphabet Train Game
Matching letters is a great way to help children recognize letters in the alphabet. This is a very simple game that you can do with your preschooler! I used a pre-made alphabet that I bought for my classroom several years…
Clean-Up Songs
Getting your child(ren) to clean up can be such a hassle! Most of the time it feels like I am doing all the cleaning up. I have found that these two songs definitely help to motivate Big Brother. The first…
Plastic Baggie “My Body” Book
These little books are so cool! My good friend Sarah introduced me to these plastic baggie books and I decided to use pictures to help teach my boys their body parts. I made one last year for Big Brother and it was…
Reading To Your Baby
It may seem kind of silly to read to a newborn since they really won’t understand what’s going on in a book for many months. But it’s important for many reasons. First of all, it is a way that you…
Letter Boxes & Scavenger Hunt
Making letter recognition meaningful for preschoolers is crucial. Getting your child to automatically recognize letters is great, but children will retain information much more once they have had a variety of experiences with those letters. Making it fun and multi-sensory will…