Posted by Unknown | 5:05 AM

The Star Wars Story Dice activity was such a hit with my son that I figured it was time to create a new story starter activity to get him w...

0 comments Labels: Free Printables, Writing

Posted by Unknown | 4:51 AM

What can you make with colored Goldfish crackers, peanut butter, and pretzels sticks? A snack AND a math game, that’s what. First I had my s...

0 comments Labels: Counting, Free Printables, Reading, Sorting, Subtraction

Posted by Unknown | 5:28 AM

If you’re teaching your son/daughter about rain or the rainforest, making a rain stick is a great craft to complement the lesson. I’d seen t...

0 comments Labels: Crafts, Science, Weather

Posted by Unknown | 4:59 AM

Give a kid a grid of 36 words and two dice – one manipulated with the letters A through F – and let the fun begin! That’s what Melissa over ...

0 comments Labels: Free Printables, Map skills, Reading, Sorting

Posted by Unknown | 5:16 AM

We waited forever to put our son in swimming lessons, so long that I worried his fears would stifle his progress. Thankfully, that wasn’t th...

0 comments Labels: Addition, Counting, Free Printables, Measuring, Reading

Posted by Unknown | 4:56 AM

When I asked my son what he wanted to learn about, I don’t know what I was expecting him to say. But “jellyfish” certainly wasn’t it. Our lo...

0 comments Labels: Art, Free Printables, Plants/Animals, Reading, Science, Writing

Posted by Unknown | 5:04 AM

In the second book of the Dinosaur Cove series, author Rex Stone’s main characters, Jamie and Tom venture back to Dino World on a mission to...

0 comments Labels: Counting, Free Printables, Measuring, Plants/Animals, Reading

Posted by Unknown | 5:04 AM

My daughter's dance recital was this past weekend. The kids & staff did a fantastic job! All the care, creativity & hours of pre...

0 comments Labels: Adaptive Yoga, character education, children's Yoga, Dance

Posted by Unknown | 5:09 AM

This activity was inspired by a game on the back of a kid’s meal menu. No joke.   I used a book my son picked out earlier this year at the s...

0 comments Labels: Counting, Free Printables, Puzzles, Reading, Right/Left, Science, Writing

Posted by Unknown | 5:19 AM

Hello! I’m Lisa and I share learning activities for kids on my SMMART ideas blog ( S cience, M ath, M usic, A rt, R eading and T ime-out fo...

0 comments Labels: Addition, Counting, Subtraction

Posted by Unknown | 5:56 AM

I talk to parents & educators alot about hydrating children-especially on these high heat days that we will be experiencing for the rest...

0 comments Labels: children's activities, Children's health, hydration

Posted by Unknown | 5:17 AM

Unscrambling words is a fun activity for kids of any age. To make it easy for my son to move the letters around and try different sequences ...

0 comments Labels: Free Printables, Reading, Spelling

Posted by Unknown | 6:11 AM

I woke up this morning and noticed my ankles were sore. I asked myself :  "What the heck did I do yesterday?".  As I started movin...

0 comments Labels: adaptive sports, Adaptive Yoga, autism, children's Yoga, Dance, gratitude, Sports conditioning

Posted by Unknown | 5:05 AM

Volcanoes are one of the coolest natural wonders; just ask any 5-year old. My son knew a little about their eruptions, but when I started to...

0 comments Labels: Reading, Science, Writing

Posted by Unknown | 5:13 AM

Curse those darn lower case letters that look similar; they’re always tripping my son up. He’s mastered ‘p’ and ‘q,’ but ‘b’ and ‘d’ are a d...

0 comments Labels: Free Printables, Spelling