A Mom with a Lesson Plan : Spotlight

Are you organized and have a lesson plan? I don't.
But, thankfully, Jill from A Mom with a Lesson Plan does!

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There's Lesson Plans for every theme imaginable and it keeps growing! Just last week, Jill added a Money theme and before that a Camping theme lesson plan! But my favorite theme that I've seen has to be her Mud theme, with a lesson with Mud Math as well as some Mud Painting!
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Raising Kids is Tough : Ask the Experts

 

Raising a Kid is Tough.

Teaching your children to become responsible adults is a lot of pressure for teachers and parents. To lend a helping hand, experts are here to lend you an ear along with their advice.

The Raising Kids is Tough Series is a series of posts dedicated to help take the tough out of raising kids. Each month your questions on a specific topic will be answered by the Hands on Experts!

Who are the Hands on Experts?

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11 Preschooler Clean Ups

Cleaning is a part of life, unfortunately.

Why not start at a young age?

I like to include clean up as part of the activity we're doing. 

Making it fun makes it seem more like something we get to do, rather than have to.

Henry usually goes with my ideas and generally loves the clean up better than the activity itself.

I think it makes him feel important and that's he's doing hard work.

All the better!

A life lesson and my preschooler feels good about himself, all while having a good time!

[and plus the house gets cleaned!]

You may be impressed, but Henry can help out a lot around here.

1. Cleaning Windows is one of my least favorite jobs, and frankly, it rarely gets done. 

Henry to the rescue.

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Art : Homemade Window Paint Take 2

I love when Henry chooses the activity for the day.

This time he wanted really, really badly to paint the big window again!

When we made window paint last time, it was super sticky and goopy.

This time, I looked up a new window paint recipe from Home Spun Threads.

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Baby Play : No Batteries Required

Awhile back, I posted about a cause and effect activity for some learning baby play, while knocking over block towers.

This time, George made some noise!

I got out the pots and pans and a few utensils.

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