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There are lots of free Springtime and Easter Units out on the web with activities for tots, PreK, K and beyond. I thought I would highlight a few freebies I have come across: 3 Dinosaurs has a Free Easter Pack Easter Pre-K Pack from Over the Moon There are tons of great printables for ages 2-6 over at a Gift of Curiosity: Easter Printable Pack Our Little Monkeys has an free Easter...
Kindergarten Math / Math General Posts / Math-Money
by Liesl - Homeschool Den · Published April 3, 2014 · Last modified March 9, 2016
ED has been working on coins for math. To be honest, sometimes things just don’t get accomplished unless I’ve taken some time before-hand to get things ready. Here are some activities I got together for her. I grabbed our coin bowl and made pre-made ziploc bags of coins for her to match. There is one extra card for each packet. I placed five small ziploc bags with pre-counted amounts of coins...
Holiday: St. Patrick's Day / Kindergarten / Kindergarten Math / Math General Posts
by Liesl - Homeschool Den · Published March 13, 2014 · Last modified February 17, 2016
ED is working on number words this week. These are some St. Patrick’s Day sheets I made for her. I thought I would share them with you. Just click on the link below: St Patricks Day Numeral and Number Words Activities There are four pages. The first sheet is a numeral-word matching page. The second is skip-counting page. The other two sheets are board games. ED rolled a number and...
Ages 2-6: Preschool (Age 4) / Ages 2-6: Preschool and Toddler Activities / Ages 2-6: Toddler/Preschool Activities / Holiday: St. Patrick's Day
by Liesl - Homeschool Den · Published March 11, 2014 · Last modified March 1, 2016
There are such wonderful resources out there for those of you planning to do some St. Patrick’s Day activities with your kids. Here are some of the free St. Patrick’s Day units and printables I’ve come across: 2 Teaching Mommies: St. Patrick’s Day Preschool Pack; St. Patrick’s Day Kindergarten Extension Pack St. Patrick’s Day Play dough Activities at Living Montessori Now: Irish-themed letters (lower and upper case), numbers (0-20) and phonics cards...
Freebies / Holiday: St. Patrick's Day / Math--Division
by Liesl - Homeschool Den · Published March 9, 2014 · Last modified March 1, 2017
I made this division board game for my older two to review their math facts. They saw the addition games I made for ED and wanted one of their own! I thought I would share that here for anyone else might be interested in playing this with their kids! St. Patrick’s Day is Monday, March 17 this year. Download the free St. Patrick’s Day Division Board Game: Other Free St....
Freebies / Holiday: St. Patrick's Day / Math General Posts / Math--Multiplication
by Liesl - Homeschool Den · Published March 8, 2014 · Last modified March 1, 2017
Here are some multiplication pages I made for DD when she was working on memorizing her multiplication facts last year. I put together a number of different practice pages. There are 8 pages. As always, it is free to download. St Patricks Day Multiplication Pack Other Free St. Patrick’s Day Materials: St. Patrick’s Day Addition Game Boards St. Patrick’s Day Multiplication Pack St. Patrick’s Day Division Game Board and Division...
Ages 2-6: Preschool (Age 4) / Ages 2-6: Preschool and Toddler Activities / Ages 2-6: Preschool for ED - Fall 2011 (age 3 1/2) / Freebies / Homeschool Den / Montessori (general info) / Science: Vertebrates - Invertebrates
by Liesl - Homeschool Den · Published March 5, 2014 · Last modified July 3, 2020
It is animal week for my youngest daughter. We’ve been touching on vertebrates and invertebrates since the kids were little, but I wanted to go back and make sure ED really knew the characteristics of these groups and how animals are classified. First, we went over the difference between Vertebrates and Invertebrates again. We brought out our model frog skeleton again for a closer look! Then she went over the...
Ages 2-6: Preschool (Age 4) / Ages 2-6: Preschool and Toddler Activities / Holiday: Valentine's Day / Kindergarten
by Liesl - Homeschool Den · Published February 11, 2014 · Last modified January 22, 2015
I wanted to share this printable I made for ED a couple of years ago. Below you’ll find the link to print out and make your own activity. It took a bit of cutting, pasting and laminating, but ED loved this activity!! Anyway, here is the post from a couple of years ago with various Valentine’s Day activities and links: Make Your Own: Valentine’s Day Clothes Pin Word Match-a-words ED...
Ages 2-6: Preschool (Age 4) / Ages 2-6: Preschool and Toddler Activities / Ages 2-6: Preschool for ED - Fall 2011 (age 3 1/2) / Holiday: Valentine's Day / Homeschool Den
by Liesl - Homeschool Den · Published February 2, 2014 · Last modified February 8, 2019
There are so many wonderful free Valentine’s Day resources for preschoolers out there. I thought I’d highlight a few in case you’re planning to pull some Valentine’s activities out for the kids in the next couple of weeks: This Reading Mama: Matching letters and sounds, math grid game, maze and more Over the Big Moon: Prewriting Practice Sheets, Cutting Practice, Which one is different, Finish the Pattern Sheet, Size Sequencing Sheet, Valentine Strip Puzzle, 4-piece Puzzles,...
by Liesl - Homeschool Den · Published January 31, 2014 · Last modified April 30, 2016
When I was creating the post about practicing time, I remembered the Counting Kitties activity sheets I made for ED when she was 3 or so. I thought I would share them again. I had ED count the number of kitties and then color in the corresponding number of squares below. It helps them learn one-to-one correspondence. At the time, it was a little on the easy side for my daughter,...
Freebies / Math General Posts / Math--Multiplication
by Liesl - Homeschool Den · Published January 25, 2014 · Last modified January 8, 2017
I made some winter-themed multiplication pages for my daughter. They are similar the addition pages I shared a few days ago. There are eight pages. The first few pages only have multiplication problems up through the 4s and 5s. The later pages have problems all the way to the 8s and 9s (8×6, 9×9). They are free to download: Free Winter Themed Multiplication Practice Worksheets We also have some free...
Freebies / Kindergarten Math / Math General Posts / Math--Multiplication / Must Read
by Liesl - Homeschool Den · Published January 23, 2014 · Last modified January 5, 2020
I made another set of skip counting pages for my daughter. She’s working a lot with the 5s (because she is also working on telling time by 5 minute intervals) so there are a couple of extra pages of those. The packet is 9 pages total. These are free to download if your child (or student) can use them! Just please link back to this page if you want to...
Freebies / Holiday: Christmas Activities / Homeschool Den / Kindergarten Math / Math--Addition
by Liesl - Homeschool Den · Published January 21, 2014 · Last modified January 5, 2020
I made these free addition worksheets for my daughter for this next week. I thought I’d share them in case anyone else can find them of use. These pages are pretty simple addition and doubling. Free Winter-Themed Addition Pages You might also enjoy the Montessori-Style Winter Addition Pages You might want to check out our Addition and Subtraction Pet Pack which is in our K-2 Math BUNDLE (which includes 20...
Homeschool Den / Homeschool: Our Homeschool (what our day is like, curriculum choices, etc.) / Homeschool: Planning and Preparation / Must Read
by Liesl - Homeschool Den · Published January 2, 2014
Over the holidays I spent a lot of time away from the computer (blogging, that is), but I did pull together plans for the new semester. Here’s what’s on the agenda: Science: We’ll be starting an earth science unit on weather, wind and water. We’ll be starting with an overview of the Earth’s 4 systems and then will learn about the atmosphere before continuing on to wind, weather, etc. daily...
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