alphabet

“I want to learn my letters!” That has been my 3 year old’s mantra since her first day of preschool. Her quest has increased ten-fold since my 5 year old has gone from pre-reader to early reader over the last couple of weeks. And while she can sing her ABCs, we…

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Happy Friday, y’all!  It’s time for another edition of We Love Weekends – a chance for all our favorite family-friendly bloggers to share their great ideas with you for inspiration to help you and your family love the weekend too.  This week, we are our featured favorites from last week’s…

I recently received an amazing set of books from Hands-On-Prints.  Stay tuned for my full review next week, but one of the books immediately became Big M’s favorite.  Around the World from A to Z, by Christinia Cheung and Han Tran, is a beautifully illustrated alphabet book.  Inspired by Montessori…

The Ms love to participate in the kitchen – it’s an easy place to keep them occupied, involved, and there is so much to learn!  Big M has known all her letters for awhile but is just beginning to learn to write them, while Lil’ M is just learning them…

How many conversation hearts did your child get in their Valentine box this week?  Instead of consuming all those little sugar bombs, you can make a great learning experience with them.  Big M has enjoyed two great activities this month using two different types of candy hearts: Graphing with Sweethearts Conversation…