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Letter B Activities for Tot-School

November 10, 2015 By Heather Greutman

We are moving on to our letter B activities for tot-school, part of our letter of the week tot-school theme for the year. I had a lot of fun coming up with the activities for this week, so many ideas to choose from. For each week of tot-school that I plan with the letter of […]

Letter M Activities for Tot-School

October 14, 2015 By Heather Greutman

It’s time for the letter M activities for our letter of the week tot-school series here on the blog. We also dealt with my daughter’s first ear infection right in the middle of this week so the activities were light and not as involved as I had planned. I am including some resources at the […]

Letter of the Week Tot-School Activities

September 17, 2015 By Heather Greutman

This year we are going to be doing a letter of the week theme with our tot-school activities here at home. I am going to be sharing all our activities once a week on Tuesdays here on the blog and they will all be linked up below once we finish each week. All of these […]

10 Crossing Midline Activities for Toddlers

September 15, 2015 By Heather Greutman

Toddlerhood is full of hands-on fun and exploring. Crossing midline activities are a great way to incorporate an important skill for development, as well as having lots of fun. Here are some fun ways to include crossing midline activities for toddlers. What is crossing midline? Imagine a line going down the middle of your body. […]

Handwriting Warm Up Activities for Kids

September 10, 2015 By Heather Greutman

Many kids struggle in the area of handwriting for various reasons. They don’t enjoy the process or they tire easily, fine motor skills are not developed like they should be for handwriting, and a variety of other reasons. Doing some fun handwriting warm up activities can help them to prepare for writing, not only mentally […]

5 Ways to Improve Gross Motor Skills Over the Summer

June 25, 2015 By Heather Greutman

Summer is here and with it means warmer temperatures and kids hopefully being outside and active more. Summer is a great time to work on improving gross motor skills, especially core and strengthening activities that can benefit your child for the coming school months. Today I am going to share some fun and easy ways […]