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Tag Archives: learning at home

Season Sensory Bottles

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Season Sensory Bottles | Mama Papa Bubba

With Grae and Sam being 5 years apart in age, you’d think that they’d be into completely different things, but I’m actually realizing that there are many projects and activities that we can do and tweak just slightly so that both munchkins enjoy them.  These season sensory bottles are so much fun and definitely one of those projects that both kiddos got something out of.  {Not to mention that they look super pretty sitting on a playroom shelf or window sill.} 

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Practicing Sight Words With a Salt Tray

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Now that Miss G is in First Grade {first grade!!} she’s given a new list of sight words to take home each week.  At the moment, the expectation is that she’s able to read them aloud, but since she’s already quite advanced with her reading, we’ve been practicing spelling them too.  She loves sitting down with mama to do her ‘homework’, but it goes without saying that we keep it lighthearted, hands-on, and FUN.  One of our very favourite ways to do so?  Practicing sight words with a salt tray!

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Play Dough Apple Tree Life Cycle

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If you know us well, you know we loooove play dough.  We almost always have 3 or 4 play dough kits on hand and for the past several years, they’ve been something Miss G has regularly taken out and played with.  That being said, we’ve sort of been on a play dough break recently…  Miss G has other things she’s super passionate about at the moment {mainly ‘inventing’ and reading – always reading} and with her being in school full days this year, I honestly just find that there’s not a lot of extra time in our days {*insert sad face here*}.  That being said, we’ve recently been all about apples and apple trees, and when Miss G asked about when the different stages of an apple tree’s life cycle occur, I figured it would be fun to explore the different seasons with some play dough and simple play dough mats.

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Make Ten {an easy card game for kids}

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Miss G loves playing all sorts of card games, so when I came across Make Ten, a simple game that focuses math skills and uses just a generic deck of cards, I knew it would be a total hit.

UPDATE: Since sharing this game and our Make Ten printable play mat, I’ve had countless requests for play mats using larger numbers…  Well, I’m so happy to say that I’ve finally gotten around to creating a couple of options and best of all – they’re customizable and can be used with any larger number you choose!  Scroll to the very bottom of this post to find them.

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Rhyming Pairs Matching Game

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Rhyming Pairs Matching Game | Mama Papa Bubba

One thing I’ve been trying my best to do since Sam’s come home is making a little time each day for Grae and I to do something fun together.  Just the two of us, with her having my full attention.  It’s not always easy as baby brother tends to be the type of baby who doesn’t love being put down, but so far we’ve been making it work.  By request of Miss G, we’ve done mini manicures, we’ve cooked up some yummy treats, we’ve taken our babies for a walk outside {okay, so that one involved Mr. Sam, but by her choice}, and we’ve done some art.  

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Autumn-Themed Writing Tray

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Autumn Themed Writing Tray | Mama Papa Bubba

Without a doubt, one of my most used resources in my Kindergarten and Grade One classes was the stack of coloured plastic plates filled with salt that I kept in my teacher’s cupboard.  They were the simplest thing ever – literally plastic plates in a bright colour {aqua and gold always seemed to be the favourites} filled with a very thin layer of salt I’d bought at the dollar store.  Despite their simplicity, we used them constantly…  When practicing letter and number formation, when learning to draw shapes, when learning about different types of lines used in art, and when doing literacy and math centres… The list could go on.  

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Fill Your Cup {A Simple Addition Game}

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Fill Your Cup  a simple addition game | Mama Papa Bubba

Numbers are currently HUGE in our house.  Writing numbers, counting, skip counting, subtraction, dividing things into equal groups, addition… You name it, Grae loves it. {And of course I love that she loves it. ☺}

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Exploring Symmetry With LEGO

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Exploring Symmetry With LEGO Butterflies | Mama Papa Bubba

As you may or may not already know, this week Miss G and I are participating in a fun-filled ‘LEGO Week’ with a bunch of other blogging friends, which basically means that we’re dedicating the week to sharing activities and projects inspired by LEGO!

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LEGO Play Dough Imprint Matching Game

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LEGO Play Dough Imprint Matching Game | Mama Papa Bubba

LEGO.  Miss G’s been into it in a big way for sometime now, so when some blogging friends made mention of an entire week dedicated to LEGO-inspired fun, I jumped aboard as quickly as I could.  

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Broken Hearts Number Matching Activity

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Broken Hearts Number Matching Activity | Mama Papa Bubba

While I usually tutor four afternoons / evenings a week, I took this week off and it’s been lovely.  More than anything, it’s allowed Grae and I some quality time at home in the afternoons, which has been really nice.  As a result, we’ve been doing all sorts of fun little spur of the moment activities and projects, which is exactly what this broken hearts number matching activity is.  

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Berry Bush Snack Subtraction

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Berry Bush Snack Subtraction | Mama Papa Bubba

After seeing what a hit our recent play dough subtraction smash activity was, I immediately starting thinking of other fun, hands-on activities I could provide Miss G with to foster her love of exploring numbers {and subtraction in particular}. I’m fairly certain the play dough activity was so well-liked because of the smashing aspect, so I wanted something just as unique and fun.  Simply taking manipulatives away from a pile was not going to cut it.  {Well, not for me at least.}  I racked my brain for interesting ways to take things away, until I thought of eating!  G loves all sorts of healthy foods and is pretty much constantly hungry currently {hello, growth spurt!}, so snack subtraction of some sort was a perfect fit.

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Arrow Addition Matching Game

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Addition Arrows Matching Game | Mama Papa Bubba

After the success of last week’s play dough subtraction smash, I decided that we’d focus on another playful math activity this week, and since Miss G’s been all about getting going with Valentine’s Day stuff since we took down our Christmas tree, I thought we’d incorporate that too.  While hearts were {of course} the first thing that popped into my mind, I wanted to switch things up a little, so an arrow addition matching game it was.

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Simple Egg Carton Letter Sound Sort

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Simple Egg Carton Letter Sound Sort | Mama Papa Bubba

Since a home recycling service doesn’t exist here in Kuwait, I save all sorts of food packing items, hoping to find them some sort of second purpose before they end up in the bin.  My hoarding usually serves me well and I’m almost always able to help out when fellow community members put out calls for recyclables to use in their classrooms, but sometimes my stash just gets out of control.  Such is the current situation with my egg carton stash.  It’s out of control, which means that there will most likely be many egg carton projects and activities in our near future, the first of which is a super simple egg carton letter sound sort. 

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Play Dough Subtraction Smash

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Play Dough Subtraction Smash | Mama Papa Bubba

This morning when we woke up to a miserable windy, dusty, trash-floating-through-the-air sort of day, Miss G and I opted to stay in and have a quiet day at home.  We made a big pot of oatmeal, read stacks of books, played some games, built puzzles, and then played this super fun and simple play dough subtraction smash game I came up with a few days ago.

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Simple LEGO Addition Tray

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Simple LEGO Addition Tray | Mama Papa BubbaEarly this morning Miss G asked me if we could play an adding game {the girl loves addition currently}.  Not having anything prepared, I quickly scanned the room for something that could be turned into a math game without much fuss.  Our ever-growing LEGO collection caught my attention first and I knew it had potential.  I grabbed several bricks as well as a couple of just-purchased wooden dice {in coordinating colours, obviously ☺}.  I figured we could use the dice to generate our addition questions and the LEGO bricks as counters, then added in the plastic serving tray just to give the game a defined playing area and surface.

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