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10 Books We Love for Preschoolers

These princess books are not the traditional Disney fairytale! They feature strong, independent, brave, smart girls who solve problems themselves. Great for toddlers, kids, and teens, these books are awesome and funny with beautiful illustrations and a strong life lesson for girls and boys alike.

10 Princess Books You’ll Want to Read Again & Again

10 Psalms for kids to memorize - These scripture passages are perfect for children to learn about God. The Lord says to hide his word in your heart, and these are perfect for memory verses and even memorizing entire passages.

10 Psalms for Children to Memorize

St. Patrick's Day Activities for Preschoolers

10 St. Patrick’s Day Activities for Preschoolers

10 Ways To Have Fun with a Preschooler at the Beach

101 Best Christmas Books for Kids

best books for elementary kids

101 Chapter Books to Read (or Hear) Before You Grow Up

101 Picture Books To Read Before You Grow Up

11 tips to teach telling time - Whether they are in kindergarten, first, 2nd, or 3rd grade, most early elementary kids are trying to figure out how to tell time. You will find activities, worksheets, and games for parents and teachers in this awesome post that includes how to tell time to the hour and minute. Teaching the clock has never been so easy or so much fun!

11 Tips To Teach Telling Time

12 iPad Apps You’ll Be Happy to See Your Kids Playing

How to get kids to read

20 Smart Ways to Raise a Reader

20 ways to get preschoolers excited about math

20 Ways to Get Preschoolers Excited About Math

Chinese New Year Activities for Kids

24 Chinese New Year Activities for Kids

28 Moon Books for Kids

Best books about St. Patrick's Day to read to your kids - Books for toddlers, preschoolers, kindergarten, first grade, second grade, and third grade. St. Patty's Day is fun and exciting when you learn about leprechauns and their pots of gold, green clovers and shamrocks, rainbows, and Ireland. Lots of fun books for children!

37 Best St. Patrick’s Day Books to Read to Your Kids

51 awesome Christian Christmas gifts for kids - Wondering what to get your kids for the holidays? This post is full of tips and ideas for buying Xmas gifts that bring children back to Jesus without lame presents.

51 Awesome Christian Christmas Gift Ideas for Kids

Determining Kids' Learning Styles

6 Tools to Determine Your Kids’ Learning Styles

good dress up games for ipad and iphone

7 Good Dress Up Games for iPad and iPhone

7 Tips for Helping Struggling Writers

8 Books for New Big Sisters

9 Smart Ways to Prevent Summer Learning Loss

A Big Announcement (For Me, Anyway)

A is for Crocodile

A Prayer for the Homeschooling Mom

rainbow scavenger hunt for preschoolers

A Rainbow Scavenger Hunt

Alphabet Crafts by No Time for Flash Cards – Giveaway

An Island Grows Book and Volcanic Island Craft

Apple Taste Test Activity: An Elementary Math & Science Lesson

7 Tools for Cultivating Your Child's Potential by Zan Tyler

At The Pelsers: Getting to Know Your Homeschool Student

Books for the 3-year-old Crowd

Bugsby Reading System

candy heart activities

Candy Heart Learning Activities

Cute Bird Ornament – DIY Christmas Craft for Kids

Do Homeschoolers Have to Teach Every Subject Every Day?

Kid Science: Do Seeds Need Soil & Light to Sprout?

Do Seeds Need Soil, Light, and Water to Sprout? – Easy Kids Science Experiment

dry erase activity book for preschoolers

Dry Erase Activity Book for Preschoolers

Frugal Easter Egg Sensory Bin

Easter Eggs Sensory Bin

Egg Drop – Easy Kids Science Experiment

Exploding Ivory Soap – An Easy Kids Science Experiment

Family Fire Safety Plan – Change Your Clocks, Change Your Batteries

Felt Cat Ornament – DIY Christmas Ornaments for Kids (Free Printable Pattern)

Fire Safety Resources for Homeschoolers

This free printable food tracker teaches kids healthy eating and healthy living concepts in a gentle way. Print and laminate and help them to complete it nightly to see how they can improve their food habits!

Free Printable For Kids To Track Healthy Eating

Fun for Kids at the Pennsylvania Farm Show

Giant Word Search for Early Readers

kid writing

Grace Has Written Her First Book

Grace’s Dry Erase Activity Book

kindergarten journal

Grace’s Kindergarten Journal

Hands-on Contractions Activity

Hands-On Contractions Activity – Learning Contractions with Scissors

Happy (Belated) Birthday, Eric Carle!

Homemade Ice Cream

Homeschool Planning

How Can a Monster Look Bigger Than It Really Is? – Optical Illusion for Kids

How Does Gravity Affect Seedlings? – An Easy Kids Science Experiment

how to grow a venus fly trap - The flytrap plant is an elusive plant that can be hard to care for. Find its history and instructions for caring successfully here along with science experiments and projects to discover how it grows and works. Awesome ideas and tips.

How to Grow a Venus Flytrap and Fly Trap Experiments – Science in the Garden

How to Grow Your Own Crystal Geodes - Cool Science Experiment for Kids

How to Grow Your Own Crystal Geodes – A Cool Science Experiment for Kids

How to Homeschool 1st Grade – 2017-2018 Curriculum Choices

How to Homeschool Fifth Grade – 2017-2018 Curriculum Choices

First Grade Homeschool Curriculum

How to Homeschool First Grade

How to Homeschool Fourth Grade – Curriculum Choices for 2016

Kindergarten Homeschool Curriculum

How to Homeschool Kindergarten

How to Homeschool Kindergarten Without a Formal Curriculum

How to Homeschool Preschool

How to Homeschool Second Grade

How To Homeschool Third Grade

How to Make a Geoboard

How to Make a Pitfall Bug Trap – Easy Kids Science Project

How to Make a Sensory Bin

How to Make a Yarn Doll in 15 Minutes

How to Make a Yarn Doll

How to Make Astronaut Pudding

How To Spend the Day with Small Kids in Washington DC

how to teach homeschool science

How to Teach Homeschool Science: Put Your Textbook Away

kindergarten journal

How To Use a Kindergarten Journal

How to Work Full Time and Homeschool

How to Make a Snow Cloud from Boiling Water

Instant Snow from Boiling Water – A Science Activity for a Cold, Cold Day

Jelly Bean Math

Jelly Bean Math & Other Activities

Kindergarten Crafts – Counting to 100

Logic of English review

Learning The Best Way

This is a simple activity to teach preschoolers the beginning skills to count money.

Learning to Count Money – Preschool Sorting Activity

playing learning to read

Learning to Read & Write by Playing

Learning Where I Live Elementary Geography Lesson

Learning Where I Live in this World – Elementary Geography Lesson

Activities for Little Cloud by Eric Carle

Little Cloud Activities for Preschoolers

Make A Color Board for Your Toddler

Making a Homemade Play Mailbox

Making Pictures with Baking Soda and Vinegar – A Cool Science Activity for Kids

More Books for the 3-year-old Crowd

Moses and the 10 Commandments Booklet and Activity

My Homeschool Conundrum

My Library Fine

Neck Pumpkin - Kindergarten Science

Neck Pumpkin Science – A Kindergarten Homeschool Lesson

10 kids books on grief

On Losing Your Grandma – 10 Kids Books on Grief

How I Organized Our Homeschool Supplies

Organizing Our Homeschool Supplies

Our Easy Scarecrow Craft – The Rest of the Story

Our Favorite Christmas Books and DVDs

Our First Sensory Tub

Is your family over-scheduled?

Overscheduled

Paper Airplane Science – An Experiment Designed and Tested by Your Kids

Paper Towers – Kids Science Project and S.T.E.M. Challenge

Play Dough Color Theory for Preschoolers

Playing Learning Games

Preparing for the New School Year – My Homeschool Planning & Organization Resources

Preschool Activity Book

Preschool Music Crafts – Guitar & Shaker

Printable Reading Log

Scavenger Hunt for Early Readers

Scavenger Hunt for Early Readers

Scissor Practice for 2-year-olds

Scissor Practice for 2-year-olds

Free printable learning games for kids - This fun Snakes and Ladders game can be used a variety of ways for teaching reading skills, numbers, counting, and more. Best for preschool and elementary, but fun for adults and older kids, too!

Snakes and Ladders – A Free Printable Learning Game for Kids

St. Patrick’s Day Sensory Bin

Sticker Matching Activity & Game for Preschoolers

Sticker Matching Activity & Game for Preschoolers

Summer Reading

We Teach Summertime Learning Contributor

Summertime Learning 2012 eBook (free download)

Super Science Summer – Free Summer Science Camp at Home

Super Science Summer – Summer Activities for Smart Kids

T-Shirt Chromatography – Art & Science Experiment for Kids

Teaching Children to Give featuring The King’s Christmas List

We Choose Virtues

Teaching Morals to a Kindergartener (featuring the We Choose Virtues Homeschool Kit)

sight words go fish

Teaching Reading Using Sight Words Go Fish

Teaching the Scientific Method & a Free Printable

The 10 Best iPhone Apps for Preschoolers

The 30 Best Audiobooks for Kids and Families

The art of strewing - This popular unschooling technique can benefit any homeschool by encouraging children to take an interest and ownership of their learning. Lots of ideas for learning activities!

The Art of Strewing and Our Brand of Unschooling Homeschool

The Best Educational Apps for iPad

The Best Educational Apps for iPad and iPhone

The Best Games for Elementary School Kids

The Best Games for Elementary School Kids

The Best Games for Preschoolers

The Book About the Smelly Dinosaur

The life saver in my purse

Activities for the book The Rainbow Fish by Marcus Pfister

The Rainbow Fish by Marcus Pfister – 37 Fishy Activities & Art Projects

Borax slime is fun for kids, and these activities will have your kids learning while they play. This post lists out 10+ different science topics - everything from polymers to non-Newtonian fluids - that will teach kids lots of great science concepts through play! Includes a recipe.

The Science of Slime – It’s Way More Than Polymers

The Sun – Elementary Science Unit Plan and Interactive Activities

The Uterus Book

Triangle Craft

Valentine Printables for Preschoolers

Visit Philadelphia in 2014

What Do Sugary Drinks Do to Your Teeth? – Kids Science Experiment

What is Honey?

rainbow writing and emerging writers

What is Rainbow Writing and How Does It Help Emerging Writers?

What Makes Up Black Ink? – Paper Chromatography Experiment for Kids

What Shape is Strongest? – Kids Science Experiment

What We’re Reading

what we're reading

What We’re Reading This Week

What We’re Reading This Week

what we're reading this week

What We’re Reading This Week

Why We Chose An Online Homeschooling Program

Writing a Letter {Preschool Activity}

butterfly DVD

Your Backyard: The Life & Journey of the Amazing Monarch Butterfly DVD Review