Spelling City

Spelling city is a cool site that helps kids learn thier spelling words. My daughter Morgan is in 2nd grade and her teacher uses it each week to make learning fun.

Some teachers upload the weekly list into the site or you do have an option to put the words in yourself. It's also good for younger kids just learning to recognize words as you can create your own list at home!

Once you have your practice list, you have the option to play numerous games. The games are kid oriented so some are rather simple, but fun! My daughters use this website everyday! Check it out (link in the sidebar) your kids will have no problems getting homework done this way!

Kids and Cold

I know I hate getting out of bed when it's cold out, but my kids are horrible. This is the one thing I hate about the winter. We are ALWAYS running late!

Mara is usually a morning person, but if she's cold in the morning she turns into a terror. This morning we argued over what she was going to wear. I wanted her to wear sweats so she was warm. However, she through a fit wanting to wear a skirt so I allowed it with a long sleeve shirt and jacket. She's happy for now. Until we are running at least 10 minutes late and walk outside!

I don't know about you but it seems the colder it is the harder the mornings are and with a 5 year old and a 7 year old, no matter how early we get up we are always LATE! If it's not one of them it's the other!

Morgan and her "Ollergies"

One thing that sucks about living in Ohio is that your allergies and sinuses are horrible this time of year. Morgan has a sinus infection now that is driving her crazy!

Yesterday when I picked the girls up, Morgan starts telling me this story about how her teacher sent her to the nurse earlier. She says, "and mommy, the nurse says my ollergies are being bad, they don't listen!" (This is wear my brain clicked in and I was really listening) I said, "What?" So she tells me again and I catch on. I said, "Morgan, did the nurse say your allergies are acting up?" and she says "That's it mommy, how'd you know?" I just had to laugh. I told her "Mommys, ollergies don't listen either sweetie."

The way kid's interpret things always makes me laugh! 

Making Education Hands On

My daughter, Mara, started Kindergarten this year and her teacher has her own unique way of teaching. She is young and this is only her second year at the school, but I have to say I really like her approach.

She is a very laid back teacher. The kids do not have assigned seats and they do not do the normal school issued homework papers. As a matter a fact, she sent the whole years worth home for us to practice with!

She does unique projects with the kids and makes learning fun. I think Mara has learned so much more from her very hands on way of teaching and we as a family have learned a lot on teaching the kids in a fun way.

We now make up games we can play to learn and silly songs and dances. Mara is on her way to reading and while we do sound words out we also point to each word as we are reading to her and have her point to them and repeat them back.

Educating children is very important, I'm sure every parent feels the same. So make it fun and see how much more your children learn. You may be surprised at how much fun you have too!