Christmas Preschool PDF

Made a Christmas Counting and Color-By-Number For Zoriah … its super cute…Feel free to steal it if you want…. Just don’t try to sell it… that’d be bad and mean. [pdf-embedder url=”http://karen.richardmatthews.me/wp-content/uploads/sites/20/2016/12/Zoriah-Counting-Worksheets.pdf” title=”zoriah-counting-worksheets”] download PDF  

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Robot Week!!!

This week was, again, inspired by my daughters OBSESSION with Curious George.  We watched an episode where George builds a robot costume and they talk about all the cool things some robots can do.  Zachary thought this was awesome! So we started to explore robots.  Got books, did some worksheets, and LOTS of fun crafts.  (My…

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Teach Your Kids about Otters

A few weeks ago my son wanted to learn about otters.  So we did…. unfortunately then I got sick, and life happened so I haven’t had time to write about it….. blargh.  So, this is a bit late, but since no one is really reading my blog yet, I guess that doesn’t matter too much.…

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10 Books to Introduce Your Kids to Art

We did a slow-down week this week.  Our schedule was messed up by memorial day and Zachary caught a cold from somewhere so we needed something that wasn’t too intense. THANKFULLY it was INTRODUCTION TO CLASSIC ART week!  It probably would have been more fun with a NON-Sick kid, but it was still pretty awesome anyway,…

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How to Teach Your Kids about Geckos

This week we studied geckos.  And went to the zoo and had some major playdates so there wasn’t as much FORMAL schooling. INSTEAD we had a TON of fun and read some awesome books and learned a lot about geckos without worrying about the Math and Writing bits so much.    Gecko Math Worksheets We…

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HomeSchool Routine

I know that there are several ways to go about scheduling your day, teaching your kids, running your classroom, and creating or buying your curriculum.  I’m NOT trying to say that my way is the RIGHT way to do it.  I’m just saying what works well for us right now.  This is what we do.…

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Happy Mother’s Day!

OK, So I’m a little late, Chalk it up to having a lot to do. But we had a LOVELY mother’s day anyway. First off, we were in Illinois at my Mother’s house for the weekend.  The basics happened: My bro-in-law brought the whiskey and tried to get Richard to drink too much (not possible…

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