Playing with Books: Resourcefulness

I love learning through books. Charlotte Mason's method to education is totally my jam. That is one thing about this toddler curriculum from Experience Early Learning that I totally love! It's not only theme based, but it's also literature based. Each week has come with a book (that came in our tot box!) and all our toddler activities have revolved around that weekly book. This week we read the...

Preschool: Car Wash Activities

Hi! I'm Leslie- a homeschooling momma to an almost 5 year old girl (seriously can't believe I just typed that) and 17 month old boy.  The 2 are as different as night and day.  I share our adventures here to both inspire learning at home and chronicle our lives, because honestly, I never started the baby books and my kids will just have to look back on their childhood through this...

Preschool: Exploring Waterfalls

Hi! I'm Leslie- a homeschooling momma to an almost 5 year old girl (seriously can't believe I just typed that) and 17 month old boy.  The 2 are as different as night and day.  I share our adventures here to both inspire learning at home and chronicle our lives, because honestly, I never started the baby books and my kids will just have to look back on their childhood through this...

Preschool STEAM Station: Pounding Colors

Last week we began our Orchard Harvest unit from Mother Goose Time, and it had an awesome STEAM Station involving flowers.  STEAM stations are learning stations that revolve around Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, or Math.  In this case, the STEAM station is focused mainly on Science, but I would also say Art. So last week, my 10 month old son decided he was not going to...

Preschool Nature Study

Nature Detectives.That is what we have been this month- up close and personal with nature.Pretty fitting that our Mother Goose Time curriculum sent us a book called My Close to Nature! book.Our MGT activity suggested to take some up close and personal pictures of the nature items around us and then write about them.   I taught her how to use the camera on my phone and had her snap...

Pine Cone Bird Feeder

 We are Nature Detectives for the month of July.Our preschool curriculum from Mother Goose Time had a whole week devoted to trees: Climbing Tress, Building with Trees, Painting Trees, Counting in Trees, and Writing with Trees.On our Building with Trees day, we built a bird feeder from a tree part- a pine cone!We've made pine cone bird feeders before, but this one was the best one...

Rainbow Dinosaur Birthday Party

My girl turned 4 yesterday, yall.F.O.U.R.I seriously can not believe it.  It has gone by entirely too fast.When she turned one, we had a You Are My Sunshine theme for her birthday party.When she turned two, we did a Fiesta Before You Siesta taco/outdoor play party.When she turned three, we had an outdoor bubble party theme.All of those were chosen by me.But this year I asked my girl what she...

Detectives Need Magnifying Glasses

Nature Detective.Our newest preschool theme, and I am smitten.Our newest Mother Goose Time box had this awesome magnifying glass, and it has made being a detective so much fun!My girl took the magnifying glass outside as soon as we took it out of the package.She went all around the driveway inspecting things.She found this bee sleeping on our zinnia! He didn't move at all for quite some...

Preschool Moon Rock Math

Finally, we have seen the sun!  After weeks of gloom and rain, the most glorious days have arrived and we are soaking as much time outdoors as we can. So when our Mother Goose Time suggested a game called "Counting Moon Rocks" during our Space Unit, I tweaked it to be outdoors and it was perfect!  In fact, this game kept my girl busy for 45 minutes straight!Here's what we...

Camping Indoors

Rain, rain, go away.... come again some other day!It's been raining just about every afternoon 'round here, but that's not stopping us from camping out with our Mother Goose Time!  In fact, rainy days are the perfect days to build tents indoors, which is just what we did on Tent Day.A queen sized sheet, dining room chair, and old high chair were the perfect supplies to build our tent before...