Ten Frames to the Rescue! Mastering Early Addition & Subtraction

Ten Frames to the Rescue! Mastering Early Addition & Subtraction

Put some fun back in your math practice with these giant ten frames!

Free Digital Resources: Teaching Fractions, Decimals, & Percents

Free Digital Resources: Teaching Fractions, Decimals, & Percents

Fear the fraction no longer! These high-quality, FREE digital resources are just what you’re looking for.

Mother’s Education

Mother’s Education

Charlotte Mason educators often refer to the importance of “mother’s education,” a phrase that typically encompasses a mother’s training in child-rearing, her study of child psychology and educational best practices, and for many moms, her personal spiritual growth through Bible

Teaching Econ

economics for kids

Here’s a great new resource for teaching your kids economics. The Tuttle Twins and the Miraculous Pencil follows Ethan and Emily Tuttle on a class field trip to a pencil factory. They learn about how products we consider simple, everyday objects are

Construct a Hexagon

Construct a Hexagon

The construction for a regular hexagon is a favorite of my students every year and the one most of them choose as a basis for their geometric design project.  We are simply going to begin with a line and use

Counting to 100

Counting to 100

We recently observed that sacred school holiday: the 100th day of school. My three-year-old is working on counting to 100, and he has been using a 10 x 10 matrix.  Ours is just a print-out in a dry erase sheet, but

Snake Eyes!

Snake Eyes!

Working with dice enhances number sense in young children by training them to look at a group of objects (the dots on the dice) and recognize how many are there without counting.  As children grow familiar with these common arrangements, they