The building blocks  of learning are literacy and basic math skills.  With these two mental tools our kids will be better able to use their curiosity about the world to help teach themselves and to figure out the connections around them!  Here are just a few of the learning activities we have amassed:

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Letter Recognition, Site Words and Early Phonetic Reading Activities:

Phonics Flip Chart

Making and Dipping our Letters

Ways to Practice Writing and Letter Recognition

Magnetic Site Words

Using Fortune Catcher to Make Words

Reading with Sticky Sticks

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Activities to Develop Early Arithmetic Skills:

Pattern Making & Cereal Bracelets

Learning to Measure with Gummy Worms

Learning to Graph with M&Ms

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Themes or Units of Activities  (like earth, water, air, animals, plants, germs, etc.)

Earthquakes: Cause and Effect Activity

Learning Body Parts Through Tracing

Science Experiment: Cleaning Money

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Curriculum Program Suggestions and Reviews:

Early Online Reading Curriculum

Free Printable Learn-to-read Books