Prewriting Skills

What are the pre-writing skills?
They are hand skills that refer to the how well we can handle small objects in our hands. Our Hand skills depend on how we use the small muscles of our hands.

Pre-writing activities and hand strengthening activities
Here is some information about hand strengthening activities and pre-writing skills:

You can use the following activities
playdough, pushing stuff

Our Ladybug Lapbooks

Pictured on the left is my toddler Turtle's lap book and on the right is my older son's lap book that were started on Friday and finished up on Saturday. These were the first lap books we made!


In Turtle's (age 3 1/2 ) lap book, we have on the left panel his ABC's ladybug cards from Homeschool Share, and some clipart I found online.

In the large middle panel, we have his Mini Letter Book that

L is for Ladybug (Part 2)

This was our second week on the Letter L and Ladybugs theme.
We still did not have our ladybug books since our library branch did not open until Tuesday. My hubby picked up our books in the evening so that we'd have them for the week.

We are reading the following books this week:
Are you a Ladybug? by Judy Allen
Ladybug. Ladybug by Ruth Brown
The Grouchy Ladybug by Eric Carle

Monday was a light

Window Crayons and Marker Fun

On Wednesday the boys tried out some new art supplies that Hubby and I purchased Tuesday evening after dinner. It is the first time I have seen these products. Crayola Window Crayons and Crayola Window Markers. You can draw with the Window crayons on glass surfaces such as windows and picture frames. When the crayon wears down a bit you can twist the bottom of it for more crayon. The crayons

L is for LadyBug (Part 1)

This past week we officially started homeschooling my youngest son Turtle, age 3. He has been observing me homeschool his older brother and enjoys doing art with us. We have done some things such toddler activities and preschool science with him. I felt it was time for him to begin Homeschool Preschool or "TOT school" at home four days a week for now.

Rather than start at the beginning with the

Craft shopping for our Letter of the Week

Today, my family and I went to purchase some craft supplies. We are doing our letter of the the week (Letter L) and the boys I wanted to make some ladybug and lollipop crafts. I am also restocking on some supplies for our art center.We went to Hobby Lobby with our printed coupon for 40% off. They had 30% off the foam sheets and tempera paint. The boys helped pick out the materials to make our

Our Summer plans, what are yours?

Summer is coming and with that many homeschooolers like myself have the option of taking a summer break along with our public school counterparts or continue homeschooling year round with some short breaks in between.

We homeschool year round with my oldest son, age 9 and we are just starting Homeschool Preschool with my youngest, age 3 1/2 years. I want to cover some stuff this summer with him.