As a teacher, turned homeschooler, I love providing ideas and resources to other families that might use my homeschool curriculum or just find inspiration from the ideas we use.
Thrift shop finds can sometimes be the most exciting purchases. I mean, who doesn’t just love finding something that should cost them like $50 for just a couple of bucks?! My love of thrift shops made me want to figure out how to make busy bags from awesome thrift store finds. Now to pass on…
Movement is a life-long activity; therefore it is important to teach our toddlers and preschoolers about sports, fitness, and movement. This is a fun week of open-ended play, watching and playing sports, and exploring how our bodies actually move and work. For us, this also correlated with the start of football season, so what better…
Teaching fine arts to young kids is a fun way to get them interested in a variety of activities and expand their interests. In fact, that is one of the main reasons that we personally love learning by theme because it exposes my toddler to the vast world that we live in and expands her appreciation…
My daughter is a dirt girl at heart and I have grown to love the Earth in so many ways. So one week is by no means long enough for us to fully cover all that we would love to do regarding land and Earth, but it’s a great time to focus on the details…
With a drastic shift in weather, it is a wonderful time to enjoy more mild temperatures outdoors with your toddlers and preschoolers. There is so much open-ended play, lots of beautiful colors and changes happening, and a variety of activities to do even during chilly and rainy days. We could all use some time collecting…
I admit it, I love organization. However, I also admit that since becoming a parent, my days are chaotic, my house is a mess, and I am just not organized. In the end, this means that for tot school to be successful for our family, we approach learning by theme. Not only does it help…
Because we just recently finished our measurement unit, understanding temperature a little better was a natural extension to our home learning adventures. Also, since my daughter is now a little more active and pushing boundaries every day, learning about hot and cold has become an important safety conversation. While we started working on using both…
As we are just a few weeks away from the official start of fall here and a “summer” theme in tot school was still on our list, we decided to make it a “say goodbye to Summer play bash”! I know, sounds like fun, right? Well it most definitely has been a joy just enjoying…
Many parents would love to engage their toddlers in meaningful play and activities even very early in life; however, so many just do not even know where to start. Once a child moves beyond the true baby milestones, tot school can be a reality for many families. It does not have to be a day…
Being so far behind in our tot school learning theme adventures, this was the perfect time to combine several learning themes. So for us, this week we explored fish, water, bodies of water, and the ocean! And what a fun time we had understand what sinking and floating meant, talking about types of fish, and…
As a part of my nesting process, I have been working on the organization of our tot school room. While I have had it pretty organized for quite awhile, we have been downsizing in our entire house, so our game room now has more concealed storage space. I thought that you might want to take…
Exploring different types of measurements is a fun way to engage young learners. It is especially fun for toddlers to start understanding the world around them and the differences between objects, but it’s also an important life tooll and can grow with a child’s learning. This means preschoolers can get a little more precise in…