Do you want to build a snowman? This activity, a cut and paste activity, is one of my favorites!! Cutting and coloring are great things for children to to do to practice their fine motor skills. When a child starts kindergarten, you want them to be able to cut on their own without assistance. This […]
Reading Readiness Worksheet Fun
My team made it to the Elite 8 in basketball! That’s right – the Fighting Irish Men’s Basketball team moved forward to the Elite 8. (Hopefully our women will move forward tonight too!). To celebrate, I decided to make some reading readiness worksheets with a basketball theme! I of course had to make a color […]
Reading Readiness Free Cutting Skills Worksheets
We have another free worksheet for you! It is another reading readiness worksheet too! You may remember that a week or so ago we had a free reading readiness worksheet to help with fine motor skills and tracing. Today we have a free reading readiness worksheet that helps with fine motor cutting skills! When your […]
Practice Writing Name Worksheets: Making Placecards
We have been working hard at helping your little ones on name writing practice! Today we have another fun activity to practice writing names… we are going to make placecards for the Christmas table! You may remember we did this just before Thanksgiving. These worksheets are actually the same set as the ones for Thanksgiving […]
Christmas Place Card Template
My children know how to party. We are very fortunate to live very close to Grandma (Mrs. Karle’s) house. We also live close to my sister. We also live close to Notre Dame… all of these things contribute to a lot of family dinners and parties. We watch football games together, we have birthdays together, […]
What is concept of book?
Concept of book is a very important concept to pay attention to when you are trying to decide whether your student is ready to read. Concept of book is a type of concept of print. Several of the questions we ask on our free reading readiness test assesses a student’s concept of book and concept […]
When is my child ready to read?
Many times I am asked the question, “When is my child ready to read and start your program?”. One way to determine if a child is ready to read is through a reading readiness test – (find a free reading readiness test here). Today,though, I thought I would give a candid answer from my […]