Our kindergartener has an obsession with Shopkins. Do you know any children like this? She lines them all up for parades, plays with them for an hour at a time, scours the little lists to discover each of their names and their status as "common," "rare," or "ultra-rare." She loves her Shopkins so much, she'd rather play with them than anything else. Including school. So why not use what she loves to help her learn? Here are a few ideas we came up with: Counting With Shopkins - They hop along the numbers and help her keep her place while we count. Counting, Sorting, Grouping - Any of these can be done with your Shopkins collection. Reading with Shopkins! She was a bit overzealous with her Shopkins here, but each Shopkin was assigned a few words to read. This was fun because she also came up with voices for each of the Shopkins when it was "their" turn to read. Also, learning to decode the names on the Shop...
Here are a few of our favorite books we read with our preschooler: The little Nativity books set Make Believe Ideas, Ltd. These are probably intended for infants and toddlers, but my 4 and 5-year-olds still love these books! So do I! They are perfect for little hands to hold and each book tells a bit of the Christmas story. Each one ends with a Christmas song that brings it all together. (Like "O Little Town of Bethlehem," for example) Dinosaur vs. Santa by Bob Shea Does your preschooler ever pretend he is a dinosaur? If so, this book is perfect for you and your rambunctious little boy or girl, anxious for Christmas to come. Llama Llama Holiday Drama by Anna Dewdney We love Llama Llama books - they're sweet and fun - just right! Here Llama Llama is a preschooler, anxiously counting down the days until Christmas. He goes shopping, bakes cookies, and makes presents with his Llama Mama in preparation for the big day. ...
Did your grandparents ever tell you tales of the way things used to be? Wash on Monday, iron on Tuesday...and ending the week with baths on Saturday? Well, here in good ole' 2016, we still do Saturday night baths in this house. Not for the sake of tradition, but it is for the sake of being clean for church on Sunday morning. After a week of summer, my kids are coated in layers of sweat, sunscreen, sand, chlorine, dirt, peanut butter, jelly, and Kool-Aid. In fact, Saturday night may be the only bath they take all week. I am not against cleanliness. I'm all for it! The problem lays with timing. And our summer schedule. If we play all day and swim before bed, they're passably clean. Baths can wait for another day. If we play all day and go to the drive-in movies, they go straight to bed. If we play all day and we're planning to go to the water park the next morning, we skip baths. If the lightning bugs are begging to be ...
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