I Can Read: Baby Animals

As a Experience Early Learning (EEL) Blogger, I receive the EEL Preschool Curriculum in exchange for my honest opinions and authentic stories about our experiences using the curriculum. All opinions and thoughts are completely my own When I thought about what my family would be like before even becoming a mother, I always imagined reading aloud. I could see myself and my little one cuddled...

Bird Activities for Little Learners

Hi! I'm Leslie- a homeschooling momma to a 5 year old girl and 21 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 blog... ha! #keepinitreal"Momma, can we learn about...

I Can Read: -ad Words

My girl is book obsessed.Has been since she was less than one.If you sit on a floor, she will make a beeline for your empty lap.  With a book in her hands, she will fill your lap with her tooshy, and ask for you to read to her.Lately, she has become quite interested in words. She knows all her letters, capital and lowercase, and all their sounds, and she recognizes that all words "say"...

Literacy with Mother Goose Time

This is my 100th post about our Mother Goose Time adventures!We have loved our Ocean Commotion unit from Mother Goose Time!Each month we receive 20 discovery bags about our unit, and each bag is filled with items to make art, crafts, games for math, and literary devices and games.Here are some of our favorite literary tools they send us each month.BOOKSWe receive 2 books each month.  One is...

I Can Read: Creating Sentences

My girl loves to read.If you decide to sit on the floor, she will find you, crawl into your lap and ask to read a book.Each month we get one of these I Can Read books from Mother Goose Time.I have been trying to find more ways to use it than just for reading, though.MGT sends arrows and rectangles with the sight words on it along with 6 pictures of real images of certain things discussed in the...

I Can Read: Interactive Sight Words

Yall, Sweet Pea is getting into words and language so much more lately!It's like an explosion has happened, and I am so excited to be able to witness and take part in this journey with her.We love our I Can Read books from Mother Goose Time. In the past, she has always considered this book "a game" as she uses the sight word arrows to point to the matching words in the book.  I, on the...