Sticker Tracing

This is fun, and it gets them looking at & thinking about (& therefore remembering) the shapes of numbers, shapes, & letters.


You can find links to number and shape tracing pages that you can print at Confessions of a Homeschooler.

Planning Forms

I found some great planning forms this week and wanted to share them with you. I have learned that it is easiest to be sucessful at doing activities with Talia each day if I plan ahead, and know what I'm going to do each day, and know that I have the materials needed (a lot like cooking dinner, for me).

So, here are a few good, printable forms I've found:

Tot School Planning Form from Homeschool Creations.

Tot School Forms from 1+1+1=1

My goal right now is just to do one planned activity each weekday with Talia, so I've been using this notepad I found at Michaels for about a dollar:

Printable Schedule

A few months ago, I made a visual schedule for Talia to post on the wall in the hallway upstairs. It shows her all of the steps she needs to take in the morning.
(I mentioned it in the last Monday Moments ;)


I also made one for each of the bathrooms (go potty, wipe, flush, wash hands).

I found a great website with pictures to use but of course I cannot find it now! If anyone recognizes the pictures, please let me know! Or if you know of other websites with similar pictures, please share them in the comments.

Go Fish Feelings Game

Chasing Cheerios posted recently about an animal groups file folder game from File Folder Fun.

I had never tried "File Folder Games" although the name seemed familiar, so I checked out the website. I found some cool games there that I know Talia will love. We started right away by printing off the "Go Fish Feelings" game.

Talia loved watching the pages come out of the printer :) I cut the cards out (she put her hand on mine to "help me" cut them out, and then I laminated them.

Then we played & played! She "got" the rules of the game and caught on quickly, learning the names of the individual fish.

When we were finished, she even started making up her own card game with the cards! (If you don't get a match, you put the poppy on them- we got a poppy in the mail for Remembrance Day).

This was a definite success & I'm sure we'll enjoy the game many more times! I'm looking forward to exploring the File Folder website to see what else we might be able to use!