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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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 ...
Mental Math – Learning To Be A Human Calculator
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 ...
Art History for Kids
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 ...
The Hundred Dresses Activity – Paper Doll Chain Card
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 ...
Over 20 great kids books fans of the movie Frozen will want to read
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 ...
