Hands-On Book Craft Activities, Literature Games for Summer Reading Enrichment

Parents, are you worried about whether your kids will retain what they learned in school through three months of summer vacation?  Homeschoolers, need cheap, homemade language arts lesson plans? Special needs teachers, want interactive reading games? Work at home parents, maybe you just need activities to keep kids occupied so you can work. Whatever your need, I've got the answer. Here are hands-on reading activities and book based craft and literature games.  I've created these and give you permission to print (just don't sell them, please). Use these activities for preschool to high school. They're cheap to make, using recycled materials. Lessons are based on HOTS (Higher-Order Thinking Skills): analysis, application, synthesis and evaluation. Perfect summer reading enrichment. Hands-On Homemade Reading Crafts, Book Activities, Literature Games

Free Printable Halloween Word Games, Word Search, Word Scrambles, Puzzles

Little ones look forward to Halloween, but so do big kids. And sometimes it's hard to keep anxious kids, young or old, productively occupied while waiting. Got some big kids that need activities to keep them busy till trick-or-treat? Maybe you're a teacher or home school parent that needs activities to keep kids on task? Here are free printable Halloween and trick or treat word puzzles, games and word searches. Games are educational too! Use these free printable word games, word searches and puzzles for classroom lesson plans.   Free Printable Halloween Word Games, Word Search, Word Scrambles and Puzzles 

Montessori mom: At-home preschool practical life learning center

I'm a certified special needs teacher and a former home school parent. I also taught in a Montessori school. Both Montessori and special education follow a learning center-based classroom model. Learning centers (also called areas or stations), engage children in hands-on, multi-sensory tasks. Each center focuses on different activities: reading, math, science, building, gross motor, art, dramatic play and practical life. When I taught our kids at home, I brought the learning center concept into our home. If you've got preschool kids or are a home school parent, why not try the learning center approach? Here's how this Montessori mom set up a practical life learning area. Montessori mom: At-home preschool practical life learning center