Do you have a little animal loving tweet-heart? Are animals your little one’s pup-of tea? If so, then I’m not lion when I tell you they will love Zoobooks! We recently received our first issue and we are toad-ally in love.
I love learning unfamiliar words and having my kids join in. We often choose a new word of the week and practice using it in various ways. My kids love pulling out the dictionary to find new intriguing words. I am a self-proclaimed word nerd and my kids are known to be little grammar police.
My daughter has recently started learning multiplication and division. I am happy to report that she loves it. She gets so excited and tells me how fun learning is. That is such a win!
Teaching your kids can and should be fun. This is not always easy, but teaching verbs makes it easy. So hop, skip, jump, run and swing. Go ahead, do it all and let your kids join in the fun.
Pokemon, Batman, Star Wars, and Wonder Woman. All of these are things that kids love. They all involve epic battles. Even shows like My Little Pony have feuds in them. It seems like the more conflict or action there is, the more kids love it. I’m thinking there could be a correlation between the two. You know what would be even better? If you could somehow incorporate this idea into learning, right?
I recently took a Facebook test to determine whether I am predominantly right or left brained. For me this test was a no brainer (ha-ha). I got 75% right brain and 25% left brain. I was not surprised at all. I rely on my creative side daily and always have. I use it for problem solving and it is how I chose my career. I was a minority among my adult friends. Most of them had a higher left brain score. My husband often says that one of the things he likes the most about me is my childlike spirit.
There is a cafe in our local library call Her Story. I love this cafe and its name. It reminds me that everyone and everything has a story. These stories are so important, even the ones we deplore, and have shaped the world that we live in.
It is no secret that we have been working on the parts of speech over here at Let’s Learn With Style. We have had a lot of fun and I feel like some great learning took place too. The challenge is making sure kids retain what they learn.
Spelling is one of those things that many people struggle with for years. My daughter is a first grader this year so we added a list of spelling words to her curriculum each week. She really loves learning the new words but she is always worried she won’t know them at the end of the week. Even though we reassure her, she still talks about her words throughout the week. I want her to learn the words without feeling the pressure of a test. I decided to integrate fun ways to learn the words and then test her throughout the week without her knowing by doing fun activities with the words. Here are a few of the fun activities that we have incorporated into our day for spelling.
In, on, under, behind, near, opposite, beside, beneath, inside, outside… Prepositions are function words. They have two main functions, connect the noun to the rest of the sentence and specify the position of the noun. Simple enough, right? Maybe not if you are little and just being introduced to the complicated world of grammar and all of the crazy rules that go with it.