Letters From the Homefront

Months ago, when I began making free printables for personal use and sharing on the blog, I made a few for Fall/Thanksgiving time.  Thanksgiving Puzzles Cornucopia (with miniature fruit pieces to cut and glue inside the 'horn of plenty') These can be found on my  FREE PRINTABLES  page. These have yet to be printed off, and may be something we use for Thanksgiving day while visiting family, so they can have something to keep their little hands busy while giving my husband and I a chance to enjoy ourselves as well :) One that I have printed off and put on the shelves so far, though, is our 'What's In The Pie?' printable! I have a fun, simple printable for you today!!!! These cards are approximately 5 1/2 inches in width, 3 1/2 inches in height.  I altered the way it looks for the post, but in actuality, it's going to print out like this: with four cards to a page.  The set contains six different types of p

Oh, I've been such a bad blogger! In truth, we have been very busy this past month.The last several weeks have seen a lot of work, some 'school' related, some 'life'. I've been leaning on my favorite term, life-school, here lately.  Bug working with the stereognostic bag. We have had many school days since my last post, and started some fun new things. Little Mama has *finally* begun to use the multiplication checkerboard that I made last year, and is working with five digit multiplicands, and  two digit multipliers. Due to her tendency to get overwhelmed, she generally tends to do only one equation when sitting down with that work, and I'm usually with her or close to her. She moves slowly with it, but I am glad, because she is seeing it work. Since she is already a second year/fifth grader, I wasted no time, and showed her how to use the board and how it looks to work it out abstractly on paper, all at the same time. I didn't push, but just