Books about Road Trips
Summer is the time for road trips. Hearing these two simple words together could elicit a wide variety of emotions, ranging from wonderful memories in the car as a family to a bit of anxiety as you remember listening…
Alphabet Parking Lot: Matching Capital and Lowercase Letters
One of the boys’ favorite things to play with is cars. They spend hours playing with their assortment of Hot Wheels and Matchbox cars. Little Brother used to be the only car lover, but he has now passed along his love…
Books for Brand New Readers
Finding books with engaging content for brand new readers is tough. If you regularly read high-quality picture books aloud to your child, she can easily become frustrated with the simple storylines in easy readers that she reads herself. But…
Outdoor Alphabet Track
It is finally feeling like spring around here so we decided to have some fun outside! This activity was so simple and both boys enjoyed it far longer than I expected. It was especially great for my little “mover and shaker”,…
Hide-and-Seek Alphabet Puzzle
I’ve had this bean tub in our closet for over 2 years now. Big Brother used to love playing with it, and still does on occasion. Little Brother had not had a chance to play with it yet…until now…
S is for Snake: Alphabet Craft
Little Brother and I created this Striped Snake for our Letter “S” Craft. We conveniently used a sponge to create our stripes all while Little Brother was wearing his striped sweater (Repeat the last 2 sentences 3 times as quick as you can…go!). Actually,…
Consonant Digraph Garden
Part of learning to read is learning to recognize the various graphemes within a word. A grapheme is the visual representation of a phoneme (the smallest unit of sound). Although we stress learning individual letter sounds, we often forget…
Alphabet Craft: Easter Egg Stamping on the Letter “E”
Slowly but surely Little Brother is learning to recognize the letters of the alphabet. For those of you who might be astounded and severely disappointed at the fact that my 3-year old still doesn’t know all the letters of the alphabet,…
Books We’re Currently Reading
I don’t often post what books we’re reading. I always love a good book recommendation, so I thought I would share our current reading list for both the boys and for myself! Reading-Aloud to the Boys We read…
Introducing Long Vowel Sounds with the What’s Your Name? E (free printable)
Once your child has learned letter sounds and can decode short consonant-vowel-consonant words, he/she might be ready to learn about the “What’s Your Name? E”. This special “e” occurs when it is split from another vowel with a consonant…
There’s a Wocket in My Pocket: Environmental Print with a Twist
Continuing our celebration of Dr. Seuss’s beloved books, we read There’s a Wocket in My Pocket yesterday and did a fun rhyming activity afterwards. Both of the boys were absolutely tickled with this activity and wanted to leave all the labels on…
A Language Rich Environment
Guest Post by Pamela Talbot, Speech Pathologist and Co-Founder of Language Launchers Most parents clearly delight in hearing their baby say his/her first words. However, few parents continue to consciously work at language development beyond those early words. Often…
“H is for Heart” Alphabet Craft
This “H is for Heart” alphabet craft was a collaborative effort for the boys–Big Brother (5) cut out the hearts (which he worked for about 20 minutes to accomplish) and Little Brother (3) glued the hearts on the Letter H….
Golf Tee Painting on Styrofoam
Yesterday I shared with you how we used our pieces of styrofoam for two activities. One was the Letter & Sight Word Pounding activity. The second activity was a bit more creative…we made golf tee and styrofoam paintings! The…
Sight Word and Letter Pounding
As I shared on my Facebook page, we are in the midst of a renovation project at our house converting our small, barely used office into a mudroom. I have been doing a lot of reorganizing over the last several…
3 of the Best Language Games for Little Kids
Guest Post by Kathryn of Kids Games for Speech Therapy As parents, we know strong communication skills are one of the most important foundation skills that we give our kids. So much is riding on language in later…
Floor Tape Letters
Both of my boys are active (to say the least), but Little Brother is definitely my kinesthetic learner. He has to be moving and touching in order to learn…and a lot of times I don’t even know if he is…
9 Books that Say “I Love You”
Books are one of my favorite gifts to give my children–especially books that tell them just how much I love them. What better gift could there be to give this Valentines Day than a book that says “I love…