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Introducing timelines to preschool

June 5, 2017 Ticia 8 Comments

personal timeline lesson preschool

I’m super excited for this lesson, it's a great way to introduce timelines to preschoolers, and is a fun bit of homeschool history lesson for preschool. (Future Ticia here, I'm editing this post with new info, and updating pictures, so I'll add in a few comments, from the … [Read more...]

history preschool, quick tip

How to encourage free play while waiting at the doctor

June 27, 2012 Ticia 16 Comments

Princess has started speech therapy.  She mispronounces her C’s and G’s, and while I think it’s adorable she’s starting to get frustrated with people not understanding her.   So, every week she goes and “plays with Aunt Tara” for 30 minutes while the boys and I sit and wait.   … [Read more...]

family life, memories parenting, quick tip

Change up your spelling with a dry erase board

February 23, 2012 Ticia 5 Comments

As I’ve mentioned several times before we’re using All About Reading level 1.  One of the big components of the program is spelling out the words and then reading them.  They recommend using spelling tiles, and I posted an earlier tip how we use ours with velcro and that was … [Read more...]

reading and writing quick tip, spelling

All About Reading tip

January 27, 2012 Ticia 4 Comments

I took some of those fun games they have in the All About Reading workbook and made them into an envelope game.  For the feed the monster, I glued him on, and cut a slit in the envelope so we can feed him. Afterwards the pieces just store right in the envelope we fed them … [Read more...]

reading and writing quick tip

Do you ever play with your camera settings?

January 6, 2012 Ticia 8 Comments

We finally made it to the children’s museum and the dinosaur exhibit which I thought would enthrall my kids, they spent a cursory few minutes at, and then they split according to gender.   So, I spent a good 30 minutes being fed plastic food.  Which led me to play with … [Read more...]

organization blogging, musings, quick tip

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