A huge benefit of practicing fine motor skills is improving handwriting. Who doesn’t want to help their kiddo learn to write their letters and develop from that to writing full sentences with beautifully clear writing skills? I have three boys, and handwriting is “not their favorite” which is their polite way of saying that they […]
Before having kids, my knowledge of fine motor skills was pretty basic. I mean, kids learned handwriting around preschool or kindergarten, what else was there to know? It turns out, there’s a lot to know about fine motor skills at all stages of development! From babies learning their pincer grasp to preschoolers learning to hold […]
It’s almost Shark Week, and I was inspired to put together a quick unit study for my shark-loving boys! We’re going to visit the sharks at our local zoo, do some really fun shark activities, work through our Shark Week Printable Learning Pack, and of course, we’re going to read some super fun shark books […]
One thing that most large families have in common is that there’s almost always a lot of littles in the house. For the sake of this post, “littles” in this post will be kids that aren’t homeschooling yet while “bigs” are kids who are homeschooling. Going into this school year we’ll have two “bigs” and […]
(Inside: 20+ Super-Fun Camping Books for Kids This Summer You’ve got to check out this list of more than 20 fun and kid-friendly camping books!) As we head into summer, my family is thinking about braving our very first real camping trip! Miss S is a year and a half, and I’m not due until the […]
This post was sponsored by Boys & Girls Clubs of America as part of an Influencer Activation for Influence Central and all opinions expressed in my post are my own. We have four kids, so when sickness hits one, it hits us all. Sometimes it feels like our entire family just takes turns with colds […]
