Inside: Your kids can impress their friends and show love/friendship/appreciation without traditional hearts. Our valentines demonstrate that math is not just mindless worksheets. Math is in everything we do. Do your kids want to make really fabulous valentines this year that will stand out? Or maybe hearts are just aren’t their thing? Or maybe they’ve…
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Star Wars Game to Practice Doubles and Near Doubles
Inside: this Star Wars game makes practicing doubles and near doubles so much fun your kids will beg you to print out more game pages When I tell my homeschooling friends that I follow Common Core State Standards, they gasp in horror. Isn’t the main reason to homeschool to get away from that despicable…
Pirates of the Caribbean Math: 2-digit addition and subtraction with regrouping
You try to make math fun for your homeschooled kids. You try. And try. Some nights you spend more time thinking about their math curriculum than sleeping. Is it just me? One of the reasons I wanted to homeschool my kids was my desire to create learning experiences that nurture a love…
Blindfold Sorting
Are you looking for fun and free learning resources to use this summer with your kids? Education.com offers a wide range of worksheets, games, workbook, activities, lesson plans, songs, and even guided lessons for many ages. I’m thrilled to feature their Blindfold Sorting activity in a guest post today. I tried it with two of…
Star Wars Math: seven-day math challenge
“I don’t like math anymore,” announced my 8-year old son taking another plate out of the dishwasher and carrying it to the pantry. “Where does this come from?” I spun around in surprise, “You said you liked math!” It was such an unexpected revelation I forgot that I was measuring ingredients into a bread…
Five reasons for choosing CTCMath (Online Math Curriculum Review)
If you are still looking for a perfect online math curriculum, this review of CTCMath is for you. I received a complimentary one-year Homeschool Membership for review purposes and I’m happy to share our experience. CTCMath CTC Math is an online subscription math program, created by Patrick Murray, a math teacher and a…
Giraffe Science, Math and Measurement
The International Giraffe Day is coming up. It’s on June 21. It’s only appropriate that on the longest day of the year (or the longest night depending on your hemisphere) we celebrate the tallest animal in the world. On this day many schools, organizations, and of course, zoos around the world hold events that provide…
A+ Interactive Math Review
The best way to guarantee success in math is to make it exciting. You start with bright and interactive materials, concentrate on laying the foundation for conceptual understanding with simple and clear instructions, and offer enough opportunity to practice in a playful and strategically designed manner until the understanding is complete. Repeat with the next…
Irish Luck - St. Patrick's Day Counting Game
St. Patrick’s Day gives us an excuse for a month-long celebration. We decorate our house in green, design Leprechaun traps, paint rainbows, make green pancakes and host a small St. Patrick’s Day party. And no, we are not Irish. We just use any excuse to make March, typically known in Chicago as Nope-no-Spring-in-sight month, more…
