Literacy

Some children are kinetic learners, they learn best while moving. Here is a fun rhyming game especially for those children.
If you don’t have an indoor area big enough for all participating children to run, this activity will need to be done outdoors.

Mark a line with masking tape, chalk or any other suitable way.
Mark a designated [...]

Teaching your children poems is a great literary activity. Jack Frost is a fun winter poem that would be great for young children to draw pictures to go along with the poem. Make it into a booklet for them!

Jack Frost
The door was shut, as doors should be,
Before you went to bed last night;
Yet Jack Frost [...]

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Here is a great poem to get children moving to:
I Can
Like a bunny I can hop.
I can spin like a top.
I can reach way up high.
And I almost touch the sky.
In a boat I row and row.
Sometimes fast and sometimes slow.
Now a bouncing jumping jack.
I pop up and then go back.
Then sway gently in the [...]

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While at Walgreens yesterday I bought the School Zone Same or Different workbook for 75 cents!
The book tells children to circle the picture that is the same or different but instead I ask my 3 year old to tell me which picture is the same or which one is different.
There is no writing or drawing [...]