Little Passports Announces Early Explorers Subscription for Preschoolers

Little Passports Announces Early Explorers Subscription for Preschoolers
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Little Passports has a wonderful new program for preschoolers, called Early Explorers. Children ages 3 to 5 can experience the joy of learning about new cultures.

Each month, your child will be introduced to a new theme like animals, music, and landmarks. Early Explorers is designed with preschoolers in mind and provides fun and educational activities, souvenirs and stickers. During the first month, a Traveler's Kit arrives in a fun orange suitcase. It holds everything a child needs to start learning about the world:

• An activity book introducing new characters Max, Mia, and their dog Toby.
• A wall-sized world map
• Stickers and a wall decal
• A luggage tag

After the first month, a monthly World Theme Kit arrives, which contains:

• An activity booklet
• Souvenirs
• Flashlight Adventures
• Stickers and wall decals

Early Explorers makes a unique holiday gift for children ages 3 to 5. Learn more about Early Explorers from Little Passports.

Little Passports : Mardi Gras Arts & Crafts Fun with Your Kids!

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Little Passports : Mardi Gras Arts & Crafts Fun with Your Kids!
 
Mardi Gras is here and people all over the USA (not just in Louisiana) are celebrating with parades and parties. The celebrations don't stop until Tuesday, March 4th, so there is plenty of time for you to join in the fun! To get you in the spirit, Sam and Sofia have sent you a Mardi Gras Float to build. (Click on the link to get this wonderful arts and crafts printout!) Maybe you could even gather a few friends and have a Little Passports parade of your own!

How to Create, Assemble, and Organize a Homeschool Convention Binder

My husband and I are attending the Great Homeschool Convention next month. This will be our first time attending a homeschool conference and I have a lot of ground to cover while there so I decided to assemble a Homeschool convention Binder to keep me organized and on task during the conference.
In this video I show how to assemble and organize a binder to take to your next Homeschool Conference. It also includes a "tour" of my Homeschool Convention Binder and shows how I plan on using it.

{GIVEAWAY!} Review of Little Keepers of the Home/Little Contenders of the Faith

*Keepers of the Faith provided me with a copy of each book mentioned so I could have a full understanding of their program.

Keepers of the Faith provides a program for children that is similar to Scouts. The wonderful thing about this program is that it can be used individually or in a group setting, such as a church or parent formed association.  Keepers programs are Bible-based, Christ Centered, and incorporate Christian principles as part of their teaching and learning process.
Little Keepers at Home is a hands-on program that is written for Girls 4-6 years of age. For those with older girls or boys, Keepers offers “Keepers of the Faith” for girls 7-14 years old and a Contender version for the Boys. Their website also sells all the items that are needed for setting up a club (sashes, badges, etc).

We have recently started “Little Keepers at Home” on our home but I am contemplating the idea of forming a club for Azilee and 5-6 or her friends. There are a few topics that Azilee is a little too old for at 6 years old (memorizing ABC’s for example) but most are still very age appropriate so I feel it covers that age range very well.

The table of contents is broken down into 4 main topics; Goldy Childhood, Basic Skills, Homemaking, and Nature. Under each main topic there are several lessons and skills that are taught such as bible memory, manners, how to be a prayer warrior, Card making, how to press flowers, cleaning, simple sewing, and lots more.

Prices for this program:
Little Keepers at Home $7.95

Keepers at Home $15.95

Little Contenders at Home $7.95

Contenders at Home $15.95

Keepers were kind enough to send me a copy of “Little Keepers of the Home” and a copy of “Little Contenders of the Home” to giveaway.


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Organizing our Homeschool: Daily Work and Calenders

Ive gotten several requests in the past to see how we organize the items that are needed for our homeschool. This video shows where we store our calenders, daily work, and a few fun extras. I plan on doing another video showing our "curriculum" for Preschool.

Little Passports Fundraising For Your School!

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Planning a fundraiser at your child's school? Little Passports is the perfect partner, with an award-winning educational product that kids and parents love.

Here's how it works: your community shops at Little Passports and we donate 15% back to your school. They even have a flyer to help you spread the word. Get more information here: www.littlepassports.com/schools

{Free} Valentines Day Themed Printable Activity Pack

Love is in the air and Valentines Day will be here before we know it. This free printable will be the perfect activity pack for the occasion.
Click the picture below to download the Printable Pack.

 

What are your plans for Valentines Day? 

Snow Themed FREE Printable Activities

We finally saw snow in NC this week so I decided to design a few Snow themed activity pages for my daughter.
You can download the pack by clicking on the picture below.

This was the first snow that we have experienced at home as a family of Five so we enjoyed a relaxing Snow day at home together. We spent time outdoors throwing snowball and enjoyed puzzles, hot chocolate, and movies inside.

Did you get a Snow day this week?

Mummy Addition FREE Printable

Our read aloud for the week is the third book in the Magic Tree House series, "Mummies in the Morning". I found a few Halloween themed worksheets, but nothing specific to Mummies or Egypt, so I decided to make an addition worksheet to match the theme of the book .
Later in the week I will post a subtraction worksheet so make sure to sign up as a follower to receive a notification when it is posted.

 Click picture to Download

Wooly Worm Leafy

 

Wooly Worm.

She named him Leafy.

Old Timers Tale- The thicker the Brown Ring, the milder the winter.
Solid Black means we will receive more Snow.

Ours is Black on the ends with a wide Brown ring.
Everyone else has found Solid Black ones.

Later that day, we researched how to keep them, what to feed them, and how they transform into a Moth in the Spring.

Rainbow Craft #1

 We are learning about Weather this week and I came across this quick idea for a cute and easy Rainbow craft. This entire project took less than 5 minutes to prep and finish so its a great idea for those little ones with shorter attention spans.

I started by cutting out a cloud shape for each child along with strips of construction paper that coordinated with ROYGIV and I added a large pile of cotton balls.

Azilee is working on gluing down the colors of her rainbow and the pieces of her cloud

Finished project!

Science: Baking Soda & Vinegar Fun

We decided to do a quick and simple chemistry project with Azilee over the weekend. I had pinned this Baking Soda and Vinegar project a while back and decided to try it out. The pin originally stated it would blow the bag in the air like a rocket which I thought would be neat since our theme this week is stars, planets, and outer space. Our packets did not blow up in the air but it was still a neat reaction to watch and experience.

Homeschool Q&A Answers pt 1

A few weeks ago on my YouTube page I posted a video asking for any questions that subscribers might have about homeschooling. The questions could be general information, specifics about our journey or decisions, and/or questions about curriculum's. I had several great questions and broke the answers down into 10 minutes segments. Here is Part 1. If you have any questions to add then feel free to comment below and I will address them in a future video.

Simply Play: Brown Paper Bags

This week we used a brown paper bag to make a Bear puppet. While we were doing this I thought of all the fun activities I did with basic paper bags while growing up and decided to share some of these with you and later with the kids.
You can use them for puppets, a paper kite, you can let the kids draw on the brown paper and use it to wrap gifts or packages, make a paper bag book, and you can use them for sensory play. For sensory play you can allow the child to rip, fold, or crinkle the paper.
There are lots of simple activities to entertain children of all ages.

Earth Day 2012 Activities

Holmes State Forest "Field Trip" & Picnic

A few weekends ago we took a day to explore the Holmes State Forest which is an Educational Teaching Forest. We had a great time there while enjoying a picnic and the beautiful surroundings. The video below is full of clips from our day.

Our current Pre-K curriculum 2011-2012

This video is a quick overview of our current curriculum. Some things are changing as we will officially be starting Kindergarten soon and I will do an updated video then.

"The Very Hungry Caterpillar" Unit Study, Activities and Pinterest Board

Our K4 curriculum

These are some of our basic books that we are using for our PreK curriculum this year. We started out using the lesson plans from Heart of Dakota Little Hands to Heaven but have since decided to follow our own schedule. We do a lot of loose unit studies, read numerous books a week and take "field trips" whenever possible.
We are also supplementing Math, Science and Social Studies activities from several PreK workbooks that we bought. Social Studies & Science are also talked about a lot during our weekly units.


My Bible Coloring Book: A Fun Way for Kids to Color Through the Bible

My Mother in Law gave Azilee this book around Christmas of last year but
she was not very interested in coloring at the time. I am so thankful that I kept
it back because it goes along with lots of the lessons that we are reading and
it is helping her to tie lessons together with a hands on Art experience.


My ABC Bible Verses: Hiding God's Word in Little Hearts






 
   The Singing Bible (Focus on the Family)
4 CDs. The songs go along with the lessons in our HOD Little Hands to Heaven.





The Reading Lesson: Teach Your Child to Read in 20 Easy Lessons

Unit Study: Zoo (Field Trip!)

Elephants (Animals in Danger)
Lions Up Close (Zoom in on Animals!)
Gorillas (Animals in Danger)

One of our favorite books.
We will be doing a unit based on this book.

Watching Turtle with 

Lemur

 

 

Snapshot with the Giraffe

Comparing hands

 

 

Such a wonderful Playground. This pic shows 1/2

 

She was so exhausted and upset when we had to leave the playground

We ended the wonderful day with a trip to Pizza Inn.
I used the slices to discuss factions with Princess.