After doing our Five Speckled Frogs song and activity, I left the frogs and log on the easel. One morning, I watched Sweet Pea play with the frogs as I was getting ready to start school. Watching her gave me the idea to use the frogs and log to work on spatial concepts. (Spatial concepts are taught in the ...
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Review: Super Star Speech
When Bubs was three we started speech. Holy cow, I had no idea the cost for a thirty minute session of speech. (I really wondered why I got a teaching degree for a moment!) On top of that, our speech pathologist wanted to see him several times a week and felt it would take several years to correct his problems. I was ...
DIY “Paint with Water” Pages
The very clever Jenae at I Can Teach My Child! came up with a way to make homemade Paint with Water pages. You may remember these from when you were a kid. Although you can still find them now, it is a tough search. Super for the toddler age kiddos. Definitely going to have to give this a try! I can teach my child!: DIY "Paint with Water" ...
Only One Color at a Time
A friend called me on the phone a couple of years ago excited about a new art book she had just found. I loved the review she gave it and picked it up myself. Since my art ability and understanding is incredibly poor, I was excited to drink up the knowledge. As an elementary art teacher, Susan Striker has a wealth of ...
Updated Letter of the Week Activities
A little over a month ago, I asked for your thoughts and suggestions on the ABCJLM website and curriculum. I was so excited to see the comments pour in. Once again, I have completed a request of yours. You asked for more Letter of the Week Activities and pictures ideas. I set out to oblige. While it is a ...
How Old for Sitdown Time?
An ABCJLM user posted this question on my Facebook page: How old should my kids be before I really start doing ''school time'?" What a great question! A good teacher knows that if one person has this question, probably others do to! :-) While creating the ABC Jesus Loves Me preschool curriculum, I tried to make as much of the ...
Run, Sun, They Both Say “Un”
A year ago, I wrote a blog about Bubs struggling with rhyming words. Fearing he would begin kindergarten still not hearing the rhyming sounds, we intentionally worked with fun words to help him hear the sounds. I was thrilled when Bubs' kindergarten teacher taught him a little rhyme to help. ____, _____ They both say _____. (clap) Here is ...
Writting 101
Little Man wants to write his name so badly. "Mommy, Mommy please let me write my name." He does a few scribblings and smiles as though he just signed the Declaration of Independence. Now he wants more. Yesterday during school time, I gave it a whirl. Starting with the first letter of his name we got down to ...
Review: Kids’ Train Ket Set 2 & 3
In February I introduced you to Kids' Express Train KET sets. KET stands for Kid's Express Train. These sets of CD's help children with speech and language. Today, I am going to specifically cover KET Sets 2 and 3. Each set contains two music CDs of at least 24 songs, a 12 page manual, and CD-Rom that contains 100's of pictures in color and black ...
Inexpensive Worksheets
A while back, I received this great idea from Rachel, a website user: I thought you might be interested in something that I have begun to do for my 3 yr old daughter. She absolutely loves doing worksheets and begs for them on a daily basis - I have to talk her into letting me have the weekends off :-). Since printer ink could get rather expensive ...