A rare homeschooling moment

One of the biggest challenges with homeschooling is keeping all the kids on task at the same time, especially when you have little ones who aren't really schooling yet, or younger ones who need/want all your time and attention. Disclaimer: This is a very rare moment in our household. And it didn't last long, but it sure was nice for the brief moment it did last!

Noah doing some Domino Parking.  Really easy activity to prep and he seemed to enjoy it.  You can find the worksheet here, as well as other domino activities (free).

Andrew doing Ray's Arithmetic (free).  He also does Xtra math every day too (free).

Joel was doing some fine motor skills development with some wooden beads I got at a garage sale today.  He likes to do school with his big brothers.

Oh, and Aaron was in the pack n play.  :-)

Goldfish Math (graphing)

I found this idea on Pinterest too, but I had to search for the printable.  Here's the link.

 This was really too easy for Andrew, but he had fun doing it and got to practice making a picture graph.

 Noah LOVED this activity, since fish crackers are his favorite snack!  He did a great job matching the fish to the right column too.

Joel did excellent too!  He doesn't really know the names of the colors but he can match them up right.

PS  If anyone wants an invite to Pinterest, let me know.  But be warned, it can be addicting!

Pattern Block Activity

Last week Andrew did a math page working with pattern blocks.  If you don't know what they are, these are pattern blocks.

Andrew really enjoyed working with them and has been asking me if he could do more, so today I printed out some patterns for him to fill in.  I googled 'pattern block activity' and printed out some patterns from here on card stock (click on 'Pattern Blocks Activity Card').  Then I laminated the pages since I do have 4 hooligans boys. 

Here are Andrew and Noah with their patterns.












Here is a link to more pattern block cards, some fun animal prints.  These would be great to use with younger kids since you can also print them in color.