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Easy Way for Your Preschoolers to Put on Their Coats by Themselves

February 20, 2017 by Mama Carmody Leave a Comment

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Easy Way for Your Preschoolers to Put on Their Coats by Themselves




Easy Way for Your Preschooler to Put on His/Her Coat
Easy Way to Put on Coat

Here is a simple way for your child to put on his/her coat. Helping your preschooler or toddler become more independent is a benefit to you and your child.

Your child simply lays their jacket in the floor and stands at the top, near the hood or collar. They then bend over placing their hands into the sleeves. Once both hands are in the sleeves they lift the coat up over their heads while pushing their arms into the sleeves. In one easy movement their coat is in place and they have a boost in their self confidence.

I used this method with my children and now my grandchildren do it. I have also used this with a classroom full of preschoolers. The children are so proud of themselves. So give your child’s self-esteem a boost and teach them this easy way to put on their own coat.

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Early Years Ebook Bundle

August 2, 2016 by Mama Carmody Leave a Comment

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My blog is all about fun learning experiences for kids; and although I don’t usually post things like this, I had to share about this wonderful Early Years Ebook bundle. There are a couple of reasons that I’m excited about this bundle. One is that it’s an awesome deal. You are going to receive 52 titles at a 92% savings. The other reason I’m so excited is because I am a co-author of one of the books.

Although it’s called a “Back to School Bundle”, it could also be called a “Learn at Home” or “Let’s Have Fun” Bundle. There are tons of great things to do with children, as early as one year old, or as old as the 2nd grade. You won’t want to miss any of these fun learning activities.

Early Years ebook Bundle
Early Years ebook Bundle

The whole bundle of 52 titles will only cost $29.95. You will be receiving $400 worth of product. This is an amazing deal.

What Are You Getting in this Pack?

Over 3800 pages of resources

13 ebooks – examples: 99 Fine Motor ideas, Learn with play: 150 activities for year-round fun and learning, 50 Alphabet Crafts for little kids, LEARN: Hands on Learning Plans for your preschooler & more

31 Educational Printable packs – examples: My first calendar, ABC workbook, Pom pom mats, Shapes games, Dinosaur unit syllabus, Ultimate preschool literacy bundle, Counting printable pack & more

10 additional resources – examples: Yoga for kids, Crunch! Put a stop to picky eating and help your kids love veggies, Homeschooling with ADHD, Family Systems, Potty train in a weekend & more.

I will list, below, the titles of the ebooks that are included in the bundle. Take a look a little further down to find descriptions of each of the ebooks.

All ready know you want to purchase this great deal? Then simply click here:

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If you would like more information keep reading.

Titles:

ebooks:

50 Alphabet Crafts for Little Kids
99 Fine Motor Ideas for Ages 1 to 5
Learn with Play: 150+ Activities for Year-round Fun & Learning
Sensory Bins
Basic Shapes for Beginners
Kaleidoscope: Hands On Explorations in Colour (and Color!) For Kids
82 Questions to Ask About Art
Art Around the World in 30 Days eBook
The Undeniable Power of Play
LEARN: Hands On Learning Plans for Your Preschooler
Read, Create & Share: A Year of Growing with Young Children
Therapy at Home Camp: Beach Week
Crafty Critters: Crafts to Go

Educational Printable:

My First Calendar for Home or School
Africa A-Z: Montessori Style Activities
Letter Tile Spelling Mats (Seasons and Celebrations)
ABC Workbook
All About Leaves Printable Pack
Farm animal families Montessori 3-part cards
5 Materials for learning about Seasons and Months
Artist and his Painting Montessori-inspired Cards
First Grade Math Facts Clip Cards 1-10: Strawberry Theme
Montessori-inspired Dinosaur Unit Syllabus
Nursery Rhyme Concepts of Print Pack
Printable Dinosaur Pom Pom Mats
Alphabet Sound Mazes
Goldfish Crackers Math & Literacy Pack
CVC Word & Picture Tracing Cards
Alphabet Formation Rhymes
Shape games
A to Z Español: A Spanish Alphabet Super Pack!
Autumn Printables for Toddlers and Young Preschoolers
Space Printables Pack
Learn the Alphabet Mega Pack
Beginning, Middle, and End Story Writing PDF Lesson
Grade 2 Editable Writing Through the Year Illustrated Writing Pages and Rubrics
Ocean Animals Theme for Preschool and Kindergarten
Hello Sunshine! Counting Printable Pack
The Ultimate Preschool Literacy Bundle
Kindergarten Ladybug Unit
Visual Perception, Tangrams, & Handwriting Workbook
Back to School – Summer Recap & Social Activities
Back To School Teacher’s Pack
The Ultimate Reading Challenge

Life & Guidance:

Family Systems
Crunch! Put A Stop To Picky Eating and Help Your Kids Love Veggies
Growing Up Centsible
Homeschooling with ADHD
Yoga For Kids
The Quick Guide to Choosing a Homeschool Curriculum
Sensory Processing Disorder Brochure for Care Givers
Rachel’s Day in the Garden
Merry Memories: Holiday Traditions to Start with Your Family
Potty Train in a Weekend

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If you are interested in even more information, below is a description of each of the books.

Detailed information of each Title

Early Years Ebook Bundle: Back to School Teacher's Pack
Early Years Ebook Bundle: Back to School Teacher’s Pack

Back To School Teacher’s Pack
Grade 1-3, grade 1-6
Back To School Teacher’s Pack contains of:
– Banner to decorating your classroom
– Bookmark to give to your students
– Student’s name tag
– Student information card
– Student’s note for their new school year
– Calendar
– Volunteer card
– Individual lesson plan
– Bulletin board ideas, include: Student of the month, class announcement, class assignment
– Ice breaker, include: word scramble, trading card

All designed with nature theme chevron as background and cute boy, girl, and owl. Colorful!

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Crunch! Put A Stop To Picky Eating and Help Your Kids Love Veggies
Early Years Ebook Bundle – “Crunch! Put a Stop to Picky Eating and Help your Kids Love Veggies!”

Crunch! Put A Stop To Picky Eating and Help Your Kids Love Veggies
Toddler, Preschool, Kids in general
If you are struggling with a picky eater, fussy toddler or just don’t know what “healthy” is. Crunch! has everything you need to teach your kids to eat and enjoy a healthy diet. It is based on current research (shared in the book) plus personal accounts of true stories. Written by a pediatric doctor and mother of 4 young children.

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Early Years Ebook Bundle - "Read, Create, Share"
Early Years Ebook Bundle – “Read, Create, Share”

Read, Create & Share: A Year of Growing with Young Children
Toddler, Preschool
Read, Create & Share: A Year of Growing with Young Children is a step by step guide how the author spent a year reading, creating and sharing with others. After reading a themed book, there is a creative project to complete. Sometimes you might be cooking a yummy treat. Other times you might be making a piece of art. The last and most important component is the sharing piece. Each month your kids will take their creation that was made in the create step to a local group, charity or person in need. The ebook includes free colored printables.

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Early Years Ebook Bundle - "50 Alphabet Crafts"
Early Years Ebook Bundle – “50 Alphabet Crafts”

50 Alphabet Crafts for Little Kids
Toddler, Preschool
50 Alphabet Crafts for Little Kids includes crafts for letter recognition, letter formation and word recognition. It also features a fun and engaging craft for every letter of the alphabet! Easy step-by-step instructions are provided for each simple craft, with helpful color photographs to guide you through every project. Make learning fun with your little one and get crafting with your child today!

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Early Years Ebook Bundle - "The Art Curator for Kids - 82 Questions to Ask About Art"
Early Years Ebook Bundle – “The Art Curator for Kids – 82 Questions to Ask About Art”

82 Questions to Ask About Art
Kids in general
Not sure how to talk about art with kids? Use this list of 82 questions to spark your conversation! From looking questions to telling stories, you will have tons of ideas on how to approach works of art with your students. This PDF include a list of questions as well as printable notecards.

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Early Years Ebook Bundle – “The Art Curator for Kids – Art Around the World in 30 Days-eBook”

Art Around the World in 30 Days eBook
Kids in general
Information, lesson ideas, and discussion questions about 30 artworks from around the world!

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Early Years Ebook Bundle - "Sensory Bins Cover"
Early Years Ebook Bundle – “Sensory Bins Cover”

Sensory Bins
Toddler, Preschool, Kids in general, Grade 1-3
Sensory bins are a simple and inexpensive learning tool that can benefit all children. Whether you are interested in incorporating sensory bins into your home, classroom, preschool, Day Care, or homeschool, this guide will provide you the necessary knowledge and ideas to get started.

It includes idea lists, storage and money saving tips, information on using sensory bins with Sensory Processing Disorder, and helpful recipes.

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Early Years Ebook Bundle - "Africa A-Z"
Early Years Ebook Bundle – “Africa A-Z”

Africa A-Z: Montessori Style Activities
Preschool, Grade 1-3
This is a collection of 7 Montessori activities to enhance your unit on Africa. It features photos and descriptions of things found in Africa that start with every letter of the alphabet.. yes, even X and Q! It also includes 3-part cards, a phonetic reading activity, living and non-living sorting, plant and animal sorting, parts of lion 3-part cards and booklet, and photos of the biomes of Africa.

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Early Years Ebook Bundle - "The Ultimate Reading Challenge"
Early Years Ebook Bundle – “The Ultimate Reading Challenge”

The Ultimate Reading Challenge
Kids in general, Grade 1-3, Grade 4-6
The Ultimate Reading Challenge will challenge students to read a variety of texts over the school year. Since it is editable, it is adaptable to a wide variety of ages! There are two versions: Level 1 and Level 2. The differences are the number of books and categories suggested. Level 1 suggests 25 books and 5 categories (plus your choice). Level 2 suggests 42 books and 9 categories (plus your choice). Each category is EDITABLE, so YOU get to choose the suggested categories or genres! Suggestions are typed in, but you can delete and edit as you please! You can even get creative with it- instead of genres, type in ANY type of category you would like!

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Letter Tile Spelling Mats (Seasons and Celebrations)
Preschool, Kids in general, Kindergarten
The Letter Tile Spelling Mats {Seasons & Celebrations} Bundle is a year full of letter tile fun for emergent readers. This Letter Tile Spelling Mat bundle is designed to expose young learners to theme vocabulary words, letter matching, beginning sounds, and spelling practice. Includes 80+ pages containing letter tile spelling mats for 14 themes around the year.

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ABC Workbook
Preschool
Do you have a preschooler learning the alphabet? No need to jump from one blog to the next to get different printables. Get all the printables you need to work with your child right here. You’ll get handwriting pages, dot coloring pages, play dough mats, and ABC flash cards for games. Have fun learning the alphabet together.

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All About Leaves Printable Pack

All About Leaves Printable Pack
K-4
Learn about fall leaves with our All About Leaves Printable Pack! This unit has 30 pages of activities, including:
– An activity on why leaves change color
– A discussion and quiz about deciduous and evergreen trees
– A Leaf Symmetry activity
– Our Leaf Identification Flashcards
– And Leaf Coloring Pages!
– An answer key is also provided.

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Homeschooling with ADHD
Parents
Are you homeschooling a child with ADHD? Are you considering homeschooling for your ADHD kids? Then this ebook is for you!

Written by an ADD mom to three kids with ADHD, this ebook is just what you need to decide if homeschooling is right for your kids and how you can make a success of it.

Homeschooling kids with ADHD can be tough, but it is so rewarding. Let the advice in this book help you love your homeschooling journey!

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farm animals families montessori 3-part cards printables by I believe in montessori

Farm animal families Montessori 3-part cards
Toddler, Preschool
These 3-part cards will help your child to know more about different farm animals families. He will learn the names of males, females and young. Also the child can sort the cards by categories, such as mother, father, child, family, male, female, young, group.

The material consists of:
– 45 name and picture cards
– 45 picture cards
– 45 name cards
– 8 labels of categories

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5 Montessori materials for learning about seaosons and months printables by I Believe in Montessori

5 Materials for learning about Seasons and Months
Toddler, Preschool
This is a set of several materials for learning about seasons and month in Montessori way.
The colors correspond to Montessori color coding of seasons.

Activity 1. Introduction to seasons
Activity 2. Circle of months (with color grades)
Activity 3. Circle of months complicated
Activity 4. Seasons words classification
Activity 5. Months puzzle

There are two versions of the material inside for Southern and Northern Hemisphere.

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Artist and his Painting matching cards printables by I Believe in Montessori

Artist and his Painting Montessori-inspired Cards
Toddler, Preschool
These cards will help Children to remember artist and one of his artworks. Cards are made in a bingo-like style where you need to match colorful cards to black and white ones.

I made this material in a form that one card has one painter and one painting on it. This will help the Child to be concentrated on the couple artist+painting more and he will form a more strong connection between them. Another addition is learning names of artists and their works.

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Visual Perception, Tangrams, & Handwriting Workbook
Grade 1-3, Kindergarten
This activity workbook has information on all of the visual perceptual areas necessary for written work. Included in the workbook are creative tangram puzzles, tangram drawing activities, and tangram building challenges that will work on all of the skills needed for improving line awareness, letter formation, and neatness in written work.

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Basic Shapes for Beginners
Toddler, Preschool
A hands-on approach to pre-writing strokes for preschoolers. Designed for ages 2-5 to be completed in 6 weeks. Includes resource list, items needed organized by week, and printables for designated activities.

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My First Calendar for Home or School
Preschool, Grade 1-3
Learning about the calendar during circle time can be developmentally appropriate for young children with this calendar set this has been designed especially for students aged 2 – 7 and others who benefit from visual cues.

It includes these components:
1. Month Headers (with seasonal/U.S. holiday graphics AND plain)
2. Days of the Week
3. Today/Yesterday/Tomorrow headers
4. Attendance chart
5. School Schedule – 20 visual cards
6. Home Schedule – picture cards for special days, every day events and holidays.
7. Traditional calendar pieces – 14 sets of numbers (1-31)

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Yoga For Kids
Toddler, Preschool, Grade 1-3
A fun set of 20 yoga poses that are on cards with a description as well as a full sheet printable of the pose. Real kids are used in these yoga poses. They are perfect to use at home, educational setting, or for a celebration. Poses included in this set are Lotus, Bow, Cobra, Butterfly, Forward Fold, Airplane, Bear Walk, Frog, Bicycle, Child’s, Resting, Turtle, Seated Fold, Happy Baby, Bridge, Chair, Boat, Star, Lion, and Downward Dog.

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Therapy at Home Camp: Beach Week
Kids in general
A beach themed autism therapy at home camp pack that includes 12 speech activities and printables, 12 social skills activities and printables, and 24 sensory activities to do at home or at the beach.

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First Grade Math Facts Clip Cards 1-10: Strawberry Theme
Grade 1-3
50 pages of clip cards with all addition and subtraction facts from 0-10.

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LEARN: Hands On Learning Plans for Your Preschooler
Preschool
Preschoolers can have lots of fun learning their ABCs, 123s, shapes, colors and so much more! LEARN is packed full of learning activities with a hands on (no worksheet) approach. (Digital PDF eBook)

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Nursery Rhyme Concepts of Print Pack
Preschool, Kindergarten, first grade
Children need to understand basic concepts of print before they can learn to read. Since children love nursery rhymes, these classic poems are the perfect text for teaching concepts of print. This file contains 280 pages of printable activities featuring ten different nursery rhymes. The file includes instructions for how to teach concept of word, voice to print matching, and more.

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Montessori-inspired Dinosaur Unit Syllabus
Preschool, Grade 1-3
Montessori-inspired dinosaur themed unit study for children ages 3-6, complete with directions, materials, and printables.

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Rachel’s Day in the Garden
Toddler, Preschool
Act out a day in the garden with Rachel in this yoga book for kids! Join Rachel as she and her adorable puppy look for signs of spring in the garden. Crawl like a caterpillar, buzz like a bee, and flutter like a butterfly. Discover spring, explore movement, and learn the colors of the rainbow! IPNE Book of the Year 2015 and Winner of Children’s Book Category 2015. Age group: Toddlers and Preschoolers, ages 2-5.

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The Quick Guide to Choosing a Homeschool Curriculum
Kids in general
10 tips to help guiding people through the process of choosing a homeschool curriculum.

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Printable Dinosaur Pom Pom Mats
Preschool, Kids in general
This Pom-Pom Color Match Game is a simple way for young children to develop fine motor skills and learn about colors. 6 sheets with 6 dinosaurs. Full color.

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Alphabet Sound Mazes
Kids in general, Grade 1-3
Ready to print alphabet sound mazes for every letter of the alphabet. Perfect way for young children to practice initial sounds in words to find their way through the letter mazes.

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Goldfish Math Literacy Pack

Goldfish Crackers Math & Literacy Pack
Toddler, Preschool, kindergarten
Early learning printable pack featuring 20 hands-on math and literacy activities specifically designed to be used with Goldfish crackers. There are over 50 pages in this pack with no prep required – just print & play! Great for toddlers, preschoolers and kindergartners who love Goldfish crackers.

Spending 5-10 minutes each day during snack time with these activities will teach and reinforce many early learning concepts, such as counting, number recognition, shapes, colors, patterns, measurement, graphing, simple addition, alphabet recognition, letter sounds, letter cases, sight words and more!

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CVC Word & Picture Tracing Cards
Preschool, Grade 1-3, kindergarten
These CVC Word & Picture Tracing Cards are designed for preschoolers and kindergartners to practice reading a word, tracing it, writing it, then tracing and coloring the corresponding picture. Kids will practice reading, handwriting and fine motor skills at the same time!

The set includes 36 cards featuring 36 short-vowel CVC words & pictures. It comes in 2 versions so you can choose the best one for your child’s skill level. One version has larger letters to trace while the other version has smaller letters and there is blank space for children to write the word on their own. These cards are a great way to encourage and motivate young readers!

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Alphabet Formation Rhymes
Preschool, Kindergarten
Teach little ones how to write uppercase alphabet letters with these formation rhymes! This set of printables explains how to write the uppercase letters with a fun little rhyme. These can be used as posters around a room, tracing with a finger, or tracing with a writing utensil.

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Shape games
Toddler, Preschool
10 games for toddlers and preschoolers to explore and learn about shapes!

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A to Z Español: A Spanish Alphabet Super Pack!
Kids in general
Help kids learn the Spanish alphabet from A to Z with this 79-page printable pack! Kids can learn a word for each of the 29 letters in the alphabet and use the included pronunciation guide and flashcards for practice!

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Autumn Printables for Toddlers and Young Preschoolers
Toddler, Preschool
Fun, learning activities for children to broaden their vocabulary, develop fine-motor skills and ability to discriminate according to different characteristics, like colour and size. These are great for the Montessori classroom as individual quiet activities.

Autumn Printables for Toddlers and Young Preschoolers contain:
– photo cards for sorting colours
– autumn vocabulary photo cards (includes American and British versions)
– autumn shapes match – up activity
– cards for practising counting 0 -5 (using pegs)
– size sorting
– puzzels
– dot-a-dot worksheets
– puzzles for colouring in
– handwriting practise activity
– living/non-living cards for sorting
– matroyshka doll strips for cutting

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Family Systems
Kids in general
The kids are screaming, the house is a mess, and you have no idea what you will making for dinner. But I have learned a secret that will completely transform how you get through your days!

The secret is systematizing your routine. When you create a system for each part of your day you can break free from the turmoil that defines your day. You will become calmer and freer because you will know what comes next instead of winging it all of the time.

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Space Printables Pack
Toddler, Preschool, Grade 1-3
Whether your child dreams of being an astronaut, loves looking at the stars, or hopes to visit the moon one day, you’ll find something they’ll enjoy in this Space Printables Pack. This pack features 75 printable space-themed educational activities for kids ages 2-7. The activities in this pack cover a range of skills, including shapes and sizes, colors, patterning, puzzles, fine motor, mazes, math (number identification, counting, addition, subtraction), and literacy (letter identification, alphabetic order, phonemic awareness, word searches). Many of the activities have multiple versions so you can tailor the activity to the developmental level of your children.

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Growing Up Centsible: a no nonsense guide to helping kids become financially responsible adults
Preschool, Grade 1-3
This guide includes parenting ideas and kid activities with one goal in mind: teaching kids about to be financially smart.

Along with over 30 pack filled pages, you receive bonuses including a Teaching Kids about Money activities pack and a promo code for my Montessori materials store.

Filled with simple and tangible ways for you to bring positive money ideals to your family’s life, this guide covers mindset, preparing yourself, ideas for the family, parenting ideas around teaching money sense, and includes loads of resources for your journey.

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Learn the Alphabet Mega Pack
Toddler, Preschool
Learning the alphabet is easier than ever! With this 230 page pack, you can help your preschooler learn their letters while practicing early phonics skills, coloring, fine motor skills, handwriting, and more! Best of all, the activities included in this pack require either minimal prep or none at all!

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Beginning, Middle, and End Story Writing PDF Lesson
Grade 1-3
Beginning, Middle, and End: Story Writing, 250 PDF pages including interactive notebook pages and a kindergarten printable. This lesson reviews the beginning, middle, and end of some familiar stories. Sequencing of sentences is also covered. Students practice drawing a story using a graphic organizer for the three parts of beginning, middle, and end of their own story . . . later writing the paper on pages designed for each story component. There are five different story planning pages are included, two versions of the basic three page story, and two “chapter book” printable writing frames.

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Grade 2 Editable Writing Through the Year Illustrated Writing Pages and Rubrics
Grade 1-3
This PDF has a variety of illustrated writing pages with school year themes, writing rubrics, and student work covers. All of these pages are generic and are designed to be used with any books. For instance, if there is a farm story, the farm writing page could be used. If there is a construction story, one of the construction pages could be used.

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Sensory Processing Disorder Brochure for Care Givers
Toddler, Preschool, Kids in general, Grade 1-3
A customizable, printable, brochure to introduce coaches, babysitters, and other adults about your child’s unique sensory needs. Covers what SPD is, the different ways it can effect various senses, and what that means for YOUR child. Never again worry about your child being with someone who doesn’t understand their needs.

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Ocean Animals Theme for Preschool and Kindergarten
Preschool, Kindergarten
The Ocean and Ocean Animals Thematic Unit is a 189 (total) page unit for use in Preschool and Kindergarten. If you plan to use the theme to accompany core studies for one week only, you will have many activities left for a “new” unit the following year. This theme includes playful learning activities for math, science, and literacy as well as numerous songs, poems, art and crafts activities, gross motor ideas, food/food crafts, dramatic play, and book suggestions. A 42 page instructional manual serves as a guide with detailed instructions/photos for games, projects, and activities. There are 10 Power Point presentations and 35 activity files (some with numerous pages for differentiated learning) that are ready to download and print. Suggestions for younger or slightly older children are given where possible.

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Back to School – Summer Recap & Social Activities
Grade 1-3
This is a back to school unit that contains 23 printables that will help you get to know your class, and help them getting to know each other. It works well with both students you are familiar and unfamiliar with. All the printables are explained in the teacher’s guide. The tasks are set up / phrased in a manner that enables all children to participate comfortably, regardless of social background. No expensive holidays, traveling abroad etc, is mentioned. Everyone will be able to complete the tasks, having been at home the entire summer, or been on the road.

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The Ultimate Preschool Literacy Bundle
Preschool
This preschool literacy bundle includes a full year of lesson plans for teaching oral language, phonological awareness, and phonics. This bundle includes over 400 activities and included printable images.

Hello Sunshine! Counting Printable Pack

Hello Sunshine! Counting Printable Pack
Toddler, Preschool
The Hello Sunshine! Counting Printable Pack includes 10 different printable activities that focus on counting up to 10:
– Play dough mats.
– Clip cards
– I Spy games
– 2-piece puzzles.
– Line-up puzzles with 5, 6 or 10 pieces.
– Roll and Cover games.
– Grid game.
– Sun counters 1-10.
– Introduction to the number line.
– Write the missing number.

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The Undeniable Power of Play
Baby, Toddler, Preschool
Rooted in research, The Undeniable Power of Play is an ebook of 101+ tips, activities, recipes, and insights to teach your child through play at home or in a classroom

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Kindergarten Ladybug Unit
Preschool, Grade 1-3, Kindergarten or 4-7 year olds
Awesome ladybug unit for 4-7 year olds! Includes a unit planner, activity instructions, science background, printables, and more! Each day in the week-long suggested plan includes a math, language arts, and science/other learning activity. Hands on and fun!

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Merry Memories: Holiday Traditions to Start with Your Family
Kids in general
Holiday recipes, crafts, and activities to start new traditions with your family.

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Kaleidoscope: Hands On Explorations in Colour (and Color!) For Kids
Preschool, Grade 1-3
Kaleidoscope includes 25 AWE-INSPIRING projects all about COLOUR! Projects include jello printmaking, Skittle science, spinning tops, more than a little rainbow magic, a rainbow code breaker, artwork inspired by renowned artists Klee, Kandinsky, Warhol and Giacometti, writing and poetry prompts, a photography hunt and instructions to make your own kaleidoscope (of course!)…and that is not even half of the great value ideas included. Each and everyone has been chosen for it’s unique approach to the study of and experimentation with COLOUR!

Designed to be used with kids aged 5 to 55, each project includes a supplies list, step by step instructions, full colour photographs and ideas for extending learning. Plus we’ve made sure that the activities only require materials that you already have in your home or classroom. Perfect for teachers, parents, camp organisers, youth and community group leaders, homeschoolers, after school care educators, this is STEM, art and literacy like you’ve never seen it before – dressed up in all the colours of the rainbow!

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Potty Train in a Weekend
Baby, Toddler, Preschool
Have your child potty trained in three days! It is the only complete guide to potty training that you will need. In this book, you will learn the secret to potty training in three days, how to deal with hurdles such as: ‘They won’t poop on the potty!” or “They were using the potty, but now they are having accidents all of the time!” (regression).

You will not be going back and forth between diapers, pull-ups and underwear anymore. You child will be completely trained in a weekend. Parents all over the world are having success with this system and now you can, too!

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Crafty Critters: Crafts to Go
Kids in general
100 of our easy Crafts for kids, each printable on one page with supply list and step by step instructions.

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99 Fine Motor Ideas for Ages 1 to 5
Toddler, Preschool, Kindergarten
The Hands Have It!
Squeezing Play Dough, Fastening Buttons, Snipping with Scissors, and So Much More

99 Fine Motor Activities presents fun, engaging ideas to involve the fine motor muscles in your child’s hands, fingers, and wrists. Ten talented moms come together to share the most successful, creative, and inspiring invitations to play that they set up for their own kids to get those little hands working!

Your child’s hands develop and change so much in the first years of life. From chubby newborn fists that can barely open to infants reaching for your face as they coo to toddlers self feeding and stacking blocks, soon you will have a preschooler learning to cut, write, and turn the pages of a book!

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Learn with Play: 150+ Activities for Year-round Fun & Learning
Toddler, Preschool, Kindergarten
A GIANT COLLECTION OF HANDS-ON KIDS ACTIVITIES.
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The Santa Claus Debate

December 9, 2015 by Mama Carmody 42 Comments

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The Santa Claus Debate




Santa Claus or Not

Whether to let your child believe in Santa Claus or not has been a big discussion among the Christian community for quite a while and thus started the Santa Debate.

I grew up in a Christian home, went to a Bible teaching church and a Christian high school. I ran into a lot of people that didn’t want their children believing in Santa Claus. The household I grew up in, and the household I raised my children in, were not among the Santa unbelievers.

Center of Christmas Celebration

As a Christian, I believe that the main emphasis of the Christmas season should be honoring and celebrating the birth of our Lord Jesus Christ. I believe that the important lesson from the season is the lesson of giving. During this time of the year, we should be finding ways to give of ourselves, expecting nothing in return. Much like God did when He gave us His precious Son, Jesus.

Jesus was the center of our Christmas season but we also believed in Santa Claus. Children believe in a lot of things when they are young that they will eventually out grow. They believe in monsters under their beds, that they will never ever want to leave home, and little girls believe they will grow up and marry their daddies. I do not believe it is harmful to let children believe in these things when they are young, but how you handle it when they start asking questions can be the tricky part.

When the Questions Come

I appreciate the way my mother handled the questions. She wouldn’t lie to us, but rather ask us questions to find out what we believed (and probably more importantly, what we wanted to believe).

When we would go to her and ask, “Is Santa real?” She would ask us, “What do you think?” Then we would have a discussion about it. Once your child gets old enough to look you in the face and ask if you are Santa, then its time to tell the truth. Of course, if you think they are still too young to tell them the truth about Santa you can try a few questions first like, “What do you think?” If they say they don’t believe you could be Santa, they will probably give you reasons like, “You couldn’t be Santa because you don’t have a sleigh.” If they give you an answer like that, then they probably aren’t ready to give up the idea of Santa but if they say something more like, “I think you are Santa because I saw some of the same toys that Santa brought in the back of your closet.” Then the jig is up and you should tell them the truth.

When I Found Out

I was somewhere around seven or eight years old when I had to face the realization that my parents were Santa Claus. My mom thinks that I had all ready figured it out but I was enjoying the fantasy. It was my younger sister that brought the fantasy to an end. She was between three and four years old. She went to our mom, looked her in the eyes and said, “Tell me the truth! Are you and daddy Santa Claus?” Well, with a straightforward question like that mom had no choice but to tell her. Mom says that based on the reaction I had towards my little sister, I must have all ready suspected that they were acting as Santa Claus. I took my sister back to our bedroom and with tears running down my face I said, “Now you ruined it!”

My Reaction to the Truth

I may have been upset at my sister for blowing Christmas and Santa for me, but I was quite impressed and thankful for all that my parents had done for us and given us, without any recognition. For all those years, the love and gratitude for most of the presents had gone to Santa Claus. Now I was realizing that it was mom and dad that had spent all that money and had stayed up most of the night putting together toys and setting them around the Christmas tree.

Our Updated Santa Claus Visits

My parents were wonderful in the fact that even though we now knew the truth as to who Santa really was, he still came to visit as long as we wanted to “believe”. We did the same thing for our children. “Santa” wasn’t quite as extravagant in the years after the truth was revealed, but he still brought a few things and filled stockings.

Right now “Santa” only brings a few things for my husband and my stocking since the children are now grown and gone. Yes, I still believe in Santa Claus and I still enjoy being Santa Claus. I’m sure that I always will.

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Mama Carmody and “Love to Laugh and Learn” are Relocating

November 4, 2015 by Mama Carmody 18 Comments


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Mama Carmody and “Love to Laugh and Learn” are Relocating

Mama Carmody and “Love to Laugh and Learn” are relocating, from Indiana, to Texas next week. I’m sorry that my posts have been erratic this year but I have had a lot going on.

Mama Carmody is Relocating: Texas Bound
Mama Carmody is Relocating: Texas Bound

My daughter and grandson came to Indiana for an extended period of time, starting this past May. My son-in-law serves in the army and has been deployed for several months. From the time my grandson was born I have tried to convince myself that I could be a long distance grandparent. I grew up in Indiana and my grandparents lived in Florida and West Virginia and I loved them dearly. I knew I could have a good relationship with my grandson, even with the distance…a lot of grandparents do. Then my daughter found out she was pregnant with my second grandchild. After spending several months with my grandson and daughter, then finding out I have a granddaughter on the way, I knew I didn’t want to be a long distant grandparent. So my husband and I have made the decision to head to Texas.

I will still be blogging, it just may take a little bit for us to get settled. As I stated in my very first post, “Learning Should Be Fun”, I have wanted to share fun learning activities and family friendly events to enjoy with your family. Now I will be able to continue with one of my original visions. I will be adding Family Friendly Events for the Killeen/Fort Hood/Austin area. I plan to continue to post the Indianapolis Family Friendly Events too, so don’t anyone give up on me.

I will also continue to add different learning activities for your family’s enjoyment. I look forward to this new adventure and am glad to have you along for the ride.

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Love to Laugh and Learn Turns 4 Years Old!

October 7, 2015 by Mama Carmody 8 Comments


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Love to Laugh and Learn Turns 4 Years Old!

Love to Laugh and Learn Turns 4 Years Old
Love to Laugh and Learn Turns 4 Years Old




I’m celebrating my blogs 4th year in existence. It’s been a rough year. Last year, at this time, I was so excited that my blog had gone from 1000 followers to 5000. Earlier this year, I found out I had been spammed and I didn’t have near the following I thought I did.

Thank goodness I have followed the suggestions of Bob Lotich, from Christian Personal Finance, and Jonathan Milligan, from Blogging Your Passion. They both said that you should choose a topic, for your blog, that you are passionate about. It should be something that you love even if you never make a penny from it. I do love sharing ways to have fun with your children while sneaking in a little learning in the process.

If you have followed be for any length of time, you have seen me put these ideas into action. I don’t simply tell you about these activities but I document them as I enjoy them with my grandson and great-nephew. Here are my little helpers:

My Little Inspirations
My Little Inspirations

Many thanks go out to their mommies for sharing them with me and sometimes accompanying me on our adventures.

As I take a look back at my very first post, “Learning Should Be Fun”, I hope that I have fulfilled my original goal. “My real vision for this blog is that it can help families have fun learning together…”

I would love to hear from each of you. Have you found value in the activities I have shared? Which ones have you tried? I would love to hear about the successes and the failures. If you have suggestions of activities you would like to see me blog about, please share those too.

Thanks to each and everyone of you for your follows and your support. May God richly bless each of your households.

Most Sincerely,

~ Mama Carmody

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