5 Cheap and Easy Ways to Find Homeschool and Evening School Curriculum Content for Your Preschooler

This is an exclusive post for any parents who are interested in educating their child at home. From stay-at-home parents who have the option to educate their school by adopting a home school curriculum to parents who work outside the home have the option to adopt an evening school curriculum, educating your child at home does not have to be a difficult or expensive process!

Tip #1 - Purchase Gently Used School Supplies for Your Curriculum

We purchase puzzles from our local Just Between Friends sale. These are neat, gently used items that are great for little ones.

Tip #2 - Purchase Preschool/Kindergarten Workbooks from the Dollar Tree

We purchase preschool/kindergarten workbooks for our little one to complete each day when we arrive home from preschool and work. These books are only $1.00 each at the Dollar Tree and they sell out FAST! Remember to grab these whenever you see them.


Tip #2 - Provide Low-Cost Incentives for Your Children When They Complete Tasks

We always add a check plus and a sticker on the sheet of paper when our little one completes her tasks for the day. Another incentive for her is to have iPad time upon completion of her evening curriculum.

I love this certificate of completion! What a neat incentive at the back of the workbook!

This is a separate sticker book for my little one. We keep it in her folder (which she uses every day)!

Tip #3 - Purchase Cheap Arts and Craft Supplies When They Are Super Cheap (90% off)

This item was purchased from Walgreens when it was 90% off (around $.15 cents WITH paint and a brush)

Tip #4 - Incorporate CHEAP Science Experiments

When you see EASY science experiments, purchase them for later. We purchased a lizard and we filled a Dollar Tree bin with water to demonstrate absorption for my little one. She checked the lizard every day for two weeks to see if the toy increased or decreased in size. Great activity!

This lizard was very small when we began the experiment!

It grew over time by absorbing water!

This was the original packaging from the Dollar Tree! Quick, easy, and effective!

Tip #5 - Talk about Nature

Simple items like flowers and leaves are wonderful foundations for a great conversation about science and nature (think about pollination, identification of the parts of the flower, seasonal changes, etc.).

Please let us know if you have any questions about the five CHEAP and EASY ways to find home school and preschool curriculum content! We are happy to help...especially if it involves the dollar tree.

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Begin Your After School Conversations with Plum Mash-Ups! & A Back to School Giveaway!

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As we begin our journey to the beginning of the fall semester of school, I worry about key items that I need to have in my car at the end of each day to guide my conversation with my little one as we commute home.

Our commute usually includes pretzels or chips, but I found a new healthier addition to our preschool commute conversations. Our new conversation staple will include apple sauce, fruits, and vegetables! Sounds too good to be true? All of these can be accomplished with Plum Mashups!

We received four Organic Plum Mash-ups to review from BzzAgent! include the following flavors: Beetbox Berry, Berry, Blueberry Blitz, and Carroty Chop!

Beetbox Blitz - This flavor only has 50 calories, 5 mg of sodium, 105 mg of potassium, 13 carbs, and 9 grams of sugar!

Berry - This flavor only has 45 calories, 100 mg of potassium, 12 carbs, and 9 grams of sugar!

Blueberry Blitz - This flavor only has 50 calories, 10 mg of sodium, 105 mg of potassium, 13 carbs, and 9 grams of sugar!

Carroty Chop - This flavor only has 50 calories, 5 mg of sodium, 115 mg of potassium, 13 carbs, and 9 grams of sugar!

We loved Plum foods when my little one transitioned to food as a baby and we've been incorporating new Plum foods for the past few years as snack foods! Now, these are amazing! Our favorite one as the Blue Berry Blitz flavor!

This week, I will mail two of these coupons and a back to school pack to TWO READERS! Write a comment in the box below with the flavor that you are most interested in trying for a back to school conversation. This contest ends on Friday, August 19th at midnight. 

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Using iBotta Saves Our Family $30+ a Week on Our Kroger Grocery Bill

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This post contains affiliate links to help you build your shopping list and travel list for your family. We are passionate about the product and the experiences listed in this post, but we also wanted to provide easy links you can click to purchase products for your busy lifestyle.

This week, we wanted to highlight our weekend shopping list for our local Texas Kroger Store! (planned by iBotta deals)!

Our Weekend Painting Adventure with the Dino Embossed Paint Set from Store for Knowledge (@Store4Knowledge)

As a millennial family, we always have to find activities that work for us and our busy lifestyles! So, we ordered a neat kit art set from "Store for Knowledge" in December and we FINALLY had a chance to do an arts and crafts experience with my little one (yes, today was the FIRST time that we've painted with our two-year old)!

Why We are Choosing to Make Our Weekends Count! - From a Millennial Family

We are excited about creating this new blog about our BUSY lives as a millennial family and how we are incorporating CREATIVE ways to make the most of our weekends!

During the weekend, we usually...
- complete our shopping
- finish activities around the house
- make our own mulch!
- play in the dirt (we try to be a self-sustaining household
- visit a hotel (for a quick getaway with the baby)
- complete any "to do's" from the week before
- plan the next week

We try to make the weekend time, our family's togetherness time and to disconnect from our digital devices around 20 percent less that we would normally. <- This does not happen all the time. :(

We are open to suggestions and to additional activities!

Sincerely,

@WeekendsCount