Hazel learned her colors over a year ago, but I’m just now getting around posting how we went about it. I love this simple and easy way of learning colors, and I especially love how versatile it is to use. Find a colorful mixture of things; sometimes we used fruitloops, sometimes we used m&ms, and other times we used those colorful bears. I liked mixing it up for Hazel and getting her excited about this first introduction to learning. For me, colors were the gateway to learning and teaching her. It was one of the first… Read More

Sometimes it’s hard learning that Uppercase and Lowercase letters are the same letters. It’s like learning two sets of the alphabet, but some letters look the same, and some look completely different. I have been teaching Hazel a bit about these letters lately -well as much as I can. But because we always like a good game I thought it would be more fun to make a game out of it. For this game, we like to take turns finding the correct matching letter -she goes first and then I take a turn. Sometimes we even… Read More