The Blog — early learning

This week I want to cover the letter F, and counting to three with my daughter.  She's pretty good with counting that high, which is why we're starting off with it.  Later we'll get to the harder stuff, like the counting to seven!  Oh yea. • F is for Fox coloring page from first-school. • Matching F is for Fox online puzzle from first-school. • F is for Farm printable file folder game from Green Jello with Carrots. • Number Three printable worksheet from tlsbooks.com • Read a book with the story of The Three Little Pigs and count the...

My four year old should be in preschool. Except that she is my youngest. And I had my kids really close together, so I never really got to enjoy just one kid at a time. AND IT'S NICE. So I've decided that she can't go to preschool because she has to stay home with me. To play. Except that she really should be in preschool, so we're also going to do some preschool-y type things at home. While we play. And you, lucky lucky you, get to hear my lesson plan for each week!  You know, in case you have...

We like messy activities at our house, and painting with marbles is one of our ultimate favorites.  Plus it has really cool results, and you can even display it without it looking like a 3 year old made it (even though they did). First of all you need supplies: • paper, cardboard, posterboard, or whatever surface you want to paint on • a box, or cookie sheet, or in our case a big dry erase board covered in plastic wrap (because it's going to get messy) • finger paint, acrylic paint, or whatever kind of paint you want to use...

Summer isn't over yet!  Spend some quality time with the kids by playing Flip Flop Bingo before they head back to school. This printable bingo game comes with 5 bingo cards and a set of call cards.  It's super fun to mark the squares with candy or some other treat.  Then when someone gets four in a row they get to eat their markers!  (I like using m&m's.  And then I try really hard to win.)

Coming up with printables is kind of our thing, but when I saw these Olympic Printable games I pretty much knew that I could in no way compete with their utter awesomeness.  So everyone head on over to Tinyme and enjoy their genius. There are personalized medals, medal tallies, playing cards, opening ceremony bingo, board game, and flag activities.  Super cool, right? Make sure to say thanks to Tinyme by liking the printables you download on facebook!