Halloween always provides so many fun opportunities for themed activities, but finding challenging but appropriate things for my little guy...

A couple of weeks ago, my mom asked for a video of Archer reading. While he can read a lot of words and often reads sentences/pages of ...

Way back when Xander was a toddler, I did a 1500 Book Reading Challenge .  The idea was to read 1500 books with him over the course of t...

Lately, Archer has been a little obsessed with apples.  He wants to eat them constantly and loves pointing them out.  He also LOVES sight w...

I'm currently working on teaching my second baby to read. I recently posted about how he has shown he can read some words and have gott...

Archer is 14.5 months It happened!  My baby can read!! Ok, I should back up a bit.  I've posted several times about teaching ...

Archer LOVES his Your Baby Can Read flashcards!  He knows where we keep them and will randomly bring me a set.  When we finish, he will go ...

I'm currently reading The Book Whisperer (which I am reading for my 12 in 2014 and absolutely love) and it has had me thinking of eve...

Even though Xander can read, he struggles a bit with understanding words that rhyme.  I designed this word family activity to give him ...

I realized that I haven't updated on what we're doing for reading since we finished the 1500 Book Challenge  in December.  I r...

Recently I taught a lesson on subatomic particles to some 9th graders.  As part of the lesson I made a bunch of mats to represent...

Teaching Xander to read vocabulary words was super fun and easy (mostly through Little Reader).  Sight words are much less fun.  I still fl...

I FINALLY caught Xander reading on camera!  I have been wanting to for a while, but he isn't always cooperative when a camera is out.  ...

I shot this video this morning.  It is Xander playing one of his favorite games, matching up his 3 part cards.  This was his first time see...

As anyone who has been following the blog for a while knows, I used to use Little Reader with Xander.  Little Reader is a fantastic pr...

Back in April I decided to join in a book challenge with Xander.  Many Mommy bloggers are doing a 1500 book challenge with their little ones...

Since we try to make learning fun, I am always trying new ways of presenting things or turning them into games.  I love reading the ideas ...