Hands on Kids Activities for Hands on Moms.
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Recognizing & Building with Letter Blocks

With this letter block activity, I built on George’s current knowledge of letters and stuck them into something he always loves! Blocks!

Last week for the Summer Reading Series with A Mom with a Lesson Plan [she’s sharing a book report

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Magic Letter Learning!

As part of the Summer Reading program I’m doing alongside A Mom with a Lesson Plan and Creative with Kids, I’m going to work through the areas of learning that needs to be learned before actually reading.

First on

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Summer Reading with Quiet Reading too!

Today is the start of something big, and something really important for our kids… but, its also something I don’t normally share about here.

Reading.

We’ve always been big into reading here… but its never been on the forefront of my mind of sharing

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Spot the Sight Word

A new thing for us. Henry’s learning sight words! This has been such a treat to practice with him. I set up a simple ‘assignment’ [wow, am I the homework mom now?] to begin learning sight words.

Henry mastered his

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12 Best Interactive Books for Kids

Interactive books are great for really getting the kids involved in what they’re reading.
What Do We Do All Day? is generously sharing 12 of the best interactive books for kids!
Get the kids interactive by reading books on the iPad too!

I’m so

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A Library of Books for your iPad

Bookboard is an iPad app for reading children’s books that keeps track of books read and unlocks new books to read. A library of books, right on your iPad, for the kids to read!

While I can literally see our

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A ‘Counting Up’ Countdown to Back to School

Henry’s getting pretty excited to get back to school in a few days. We had a preschool open house the other night, so Henry got to check out his new classroom and officially meet the teacher and her aide [though he already