If you’re looking for educational toys for 6 year olds, I’ve got you covered. Whether your kids love science, building things, arts & crafts, robots, coding, math or puzzles, here are some great toys for kids to learn while they play. Science Toys For Kids… Beginner Electronic Discovery Kit Kids will get to create working electronic circuits, learning …
Aviation Day is a great time to introduce kids to the world of flight and airplanes. Aviation Day in Canada is on February 23rd of each year, and in the United States it falls on August 19th. My 6 year old has asked me on more than one occasion: “How do planes fly?” It might take …
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 …
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 …
I honestly don’t know how I stumbled across this type of mental math. Then I watched YouTube videos 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 …
The theme of this months Poppins Book Nook is “Countries Around The World”. The children’s book I choose is one of my favourites: “The Day The Crayons Came Home”. In the story, a little boy named Duncan get’s a strange stack of postcards in the mail from some of his crayons that he forgot about …
Hour of Code During the week of December 4-10, 2017 tens of millions of students around the world will be participating in a global movement known as “Hour of Code”. The goal of this hour of code is quite simply to expose as many kids as possible to the world of coding. Of course learning …
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. I’m sharing the best videos, books, and activities I have found that will …
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 …