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Grade 2

Playing With Place Values

May 17, 2016 by Melanie Thomas 1 Comment

Fun math game to help kids learn about Place Values and Decomposing numbers when adding.

My 6 year old is good at math, but she's not a big fan of doing pages of traditional worksheets.  To foster her love of math, I am always on the look-out for finding fun but well thought out ways to learn different math skills.  And I'm slightly picky lol, especially when it comes to math.  If I can't find something that I feel will be ideal, usually I end up creating my own curriculum, which takes time.  So when I find something I can get excited about, I get excited, haha. I emailed Warm ...

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Filed Under: Educational Play, Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3, Homeschool Curriculum Reviews, Math Tagged With: place value

Addition Strategies For Kids

May 16, 2016 by Melanie Thomas 6 Comments

Addition Strategies For Kids

Learning addition strategies helps kids learn to add the faster more efficient way.  I created 31 pages of addition strategies worksheets to help kids learn these very useful skills.   Why I Created These Addition Strategies Worksheets The short answer is I saw a need. I had spent quite some time with my daughter mastering addition.  She's pretty good at it but there is one area in particular where I struggled to get her to naturally understand. When doing mental addition, there are many ways ...

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Filed Under: Curriculum, Grade 1, Grade 2, Math, Worksheets Tagged With: addition strategies, addition strategies worksheets, mental math

Mental Math – Learning To Be A Human Calculator

March 22, 2016 by Melanie Thomas 12 Comments

I honestly don't know how I stumbled across this type of mental math.  Then I watched YouTube video's of kids calculating in their head faster than you could find the answer using a calculator and I was intrigued. It's basically using an abacus to do calculations and then gradually learning to visualize the abacus in your head.  There are various types of abacus'.  One type is called the Soroban. The Soroban was developed in Japan and means "counting tray".  It's widely taught ...

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Filed Under: Curriculum, Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3, Math Tagged With: abacus, how to be a human calculator, learning mental math, mental math, soroban, soroban mental math

Art History for Kids

October 26, 2015 by Melanie Thomas 11 Comments

teaching art history to kids. Ideal for 4 - 8 year old children.

There are so many great resources available for homeschooling parents to teach art history to even the younger school aged children.  I have a 5-year-old so finding resources that make art history fun to learn and appropriate for her age is my endeavour.  And since the theme of the Poppins Book Nook this month is "Artists", I thought it was the perfect opportunity for me to share some of my great finds. affiliate links are provided for your convenience at no cost to you Anholt's Artists ...

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Filed Under: Art, Book Activities, Educational Play, Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3, History, Kindergarten Tagged With: art history for kids, Claude Monet, Edgar Degas, Henri Matisse, Leonardo da Vinci, Pablo Picasso, Paul Cézanne, Vincent van Gogh

The Hundred Dresses Activity – Paper Doll Chain Card

September 30, 2015 by Melanie Thomas 4 Comments

Paper Doll Chain Tutorial. Making a handmade card craft for kids.

I love making hand made cards for people.  They're a great opportunity to try out various art techniques, and they are a wonderful way to give joy to others, which in turn gives me joy. ow that I'm a parent, I try to share that love with my daughter.   Besides being an art activity and a giving opportunity, it also has the benefit of giving my daughter some great writing practice.  (See my post Art of the Pencil - Learning to Write & Draw). This activity goes well with the ...

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Filed Under: Art, Book Activities, Crafts, Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3, Writing Tagged With: Kids Crafts, the hundred dresses activities

Over 20 great kids books fans of the movie Frozen will want to read

August 31, 2015 by Melanie Thomas 7 Comments

Book suggestions for kids that love the movie Frozen.

The theme of this months Poppins Book Nook is "Books that were turned into Movies".  In our case, I started with my daughter's obsession with the movie Frozen and used that in a positive way to help foster her love of reading. This post contains affiliate links. My 5-year-old daughter is definitely going through a Frozen phase.  She would gladly watch the movie daily if I let her, and has watched it an uncountable amount of times to date. I enjoyed the movie as well, but I have to admit, I ...

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Filed Under: Children's Books, Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3, Kindergarten, Preschool, Reading, Winter Tagged With: Frozen

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