• Ten Timid Ghosts: Halloween Reading Extension and Story Play Ideas

    Looking for some more Halloween themed learning? This is one of our newest Halloween additions this year. My kids LOVE this story and it’s perfect to inspire lots of homeschooling/quarantine activity ideas. The fact that it’s less than $5 at the time of writing this doesn’t hurt either! One of our new favorite games is finding a book we’ve never read before and without even talking about the title looking through the pictures to think about what is happening. Sometimes we make up our own story about a picture or sometimes we just try to guess what will happen on a couple of pages before we start reading, but either…

  • Stone Soup

    We just happened to have this book/cd set out from the library when everything around us got shut down. So in trying to think of something to entertain the kids we decided to use it! Audio books are quite new for them so it was kind of a treat to all sit together and listen to the book. After listening to the book we took out our witches cauldrons/ pots of gold/ soup pots (so multipurpose) and decided to make our own Stone Soup. We asked if they could remember how many stones were added in the story and counted out three rocks to add to each of their pots.…