Check out These Math Picture Books For Home Schooling

Reading stories about subjects is a great way to learn that doesn’t feel like learning as much as memorizing facts or using a workbook.

And when kids are first learning their numbers and basic math concepts, engaging stories are a great way to get them started. This collection of math picture books from Imagination Soup is a great one to get you started introducing numbers and math to your little one, or to slip into their reading basket for them to discover.

A lot of these are great to read with related activities, such as making black dots to go with 10 Black Dots by Donald Crews or finding your own 100 things to count with one of the 100th-day books.

While many of these are for younger kids, there are also books that include addition, subtraction, multiplication, sorting, division, geometry, money and telling time, among other concepts that will be enjoyed by elementary-aged kids as well.

Do you use stories to teach about numbers and math? Of these, my daughter loved Mouse Shapes and Mouse Count the most (so far). Which ones have your kids loved?

[Photo via Imagination Soup.]

Looking for more resources? Check out these board games for learning Math and Multiplication?

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Summer Reading Printables and Tips for Parents

I’m in deep denial about the fact that new year is almost upon us again! It’s been the fastest and the longest year at the same time, and I can look back and see some good things as well as some things I wish had gone differently.

Doing a year in review with your kids — whether in the classroom or at home — is a good way to capture some of their memories and the things they really liked about the year gone by.

There are a lot of different printable year in review worksheets you can use if you want to make this super easy. Here are links to a few (often part of larger posts about NYE celebrations with kids that are worth a read, too):

Teach Beside Me has lots of fun printables fro the end of the year, including a year in review that covers favorite memory, funniest memory and the best book they read, among other topics.
NurtureStore‘s version has space for a self-portrait and prompts like favorite toy, best day out this year and future dream job.
Remember favorites, their “best idea” of the year and have room for setting goals for next year with this one from The Keele Deal.
The year in review from Yes We Made This has room for drawing or writing and includes things like something they learned, a memory they made and a place they visited.

Of course you could pretty easily make your own year in review for the whole family to do that asks questions based on what you most want to remember. (Favorite video game? Best friend? Favorite family memory?)

And if after the year in review you’re ready to look ahead a bit, Mrs. Merry has new year’s resolution printables to inspired kids to look ahead and set goals for things they want to try. You can totally fill this one out as a grownup, too.

[Photo: Mrs. Merry]

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