How To Make Erupting Soap

soap weight collage

If you think those eruptions caused by baking soda and vinegar are cool, then you’re going to love this one! What you need: A bar of Ivory soap (no substitutions allowed) A microwave safe plate A microwave Yep, that’s it! I first asked my son what he thought might happen if we put a bar [...]

Kinetic Sight Word Activity… With a Beach Ball

Sight Word activity Ball

Have I told you about our Fridays? We are homeschooling our oldest two kiddos and Fridays are our fun learning day! We count with legos, we have “PE at the park”, and we play sight word ball. Even our two and one year old kiddos join in the fun!. . . What do you need [...]

How to Make Butter

homemade butter

Recently we made homemade butter. Stuart looked at me funny when I told him what we had done that day. He said, “You did what?” Yep, homemade butter. I talked to Nicholas a little bit about how butter is made. I explained that basically you start with heavy cream and mix it up until it [...]

Consonant Vowel Consonant (CVC) Reading Wheel

learn to read wheel

I love homemade learn-to-read resources.  This is a throw-back from my teaching days.  I had seen wheels like this in our reading curriculum (don’t ask me what it was – it was over a decade ago).  Basically, the concept of the wheel is that one letter is stationary and your child can rotate the wheels [...]

Story + Art = stART, check it out!

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We are looking forward to the fall and beginning to homeschool our oldest. I love the sounds of this meme, stART. Michelle is a former elementary school teacher who created weekly activities for her kids mixing literature (stories) and art projects. They look like a ton of fun! Here was one of the projects that [...]