Valentine’s Day is a great opportunity to share God’s love with children! We’ve got some fantastic Preschool resources for you to use this year, and now we’ve got a few activities for you your older kiddos as well. Today I wanted to highlight how to use one of our new Valentine’s Day resources: This little printable craft would be a …Read the Rest
Update: This Giveaway is now Closed! We have Two Winners: Comment #128 was Marcie who said, “I really like that primary, manuscript, and wide ruled are offered. As a parent of a 2nd grade reluctant writer (who is also still learning to form letters), I like that I have options for him as well as my 4th grader.” Comment # …Read the Rest
Today I just wanted to take a quick second to share something that has been working for us. If you follow me on facebook you saw I posted these Parts of Speech printables last week. Well, here is just a QUICK little tip for how to use them. First I simply put them back to back in a page protector, …Read the Rest
This week we’re studying the life of Moses. Using The Mystery of History as our guide, and reading directly from our family bible, we have spent our afternoons immersed in the life of this interesting, and very human man named Moses. My children (and I) have been enraptured by the way God revealed himself to Moses, and the amazing miracles …Read the Rest
This week I have a very special (read: exclusive) homeschool freebie to share with you! Currclick.com and A Journey Through Learning have joined up to offer this fantastic download free of charge for this week only! Bible ABC Pocket Games Lapbook Retail: $13.00 Your Price: Free!! This is an unadvertised, exclusive freebie just for you! and You’ll need to hurry …Read the Rest
Thanks to our November Sponsors: Speekee offers a Free Trial of their online Spanish program for kids! Did you know that Speekee won the 2011 TOS Homeschool Crew Blue Ribbon Award. Homeschool Mom’s simply LOVE this program. Pssst…. Like them on Facebook for a chance to win a TWO FREE Months! Hearts at Home Curriculum will solve your curriculum gaps! …Read the Rest
This post has been a long time coming. You might already know that we’re using The Mystery of History this year, (you might be annoyed of all my posts about the program), but the program is amazing and has quickly become the CORE of our homeschool days. It’s that good. I quickly found myself scheduling art projects, crafts, and even …Read the Rest
We’re continuing on with our Human Anatomy science lessons. If you haven’t already seen our activities for SKIN you can check out this post here. These past couple of weeks we’ve been learning about THE BRAIN! We made these amazing brain hats from EllenjMcHenry.com We made our own brain puzzle to learn about the different lobes of the brain. We …Read the Rest
Have you solved the Mystery of His-Story? We’re knee deep in our new History curriculum, and loving every minute of it. It’s The Mystery of History! And it’s one of my favorite purchases this year, and it was really worth every penny. Before I got this curriculum I was a bit skeptical, the price is what really stopped me, but …Read the Rest
We are officially ending our second week of school, and I never updated my Curriculum post to share what we finally decided on for Science. It actually took me quite a while to decide on what to do for science. And I still don’t know what we’ll be doing for the ENTIRE year, but I’ve finally got a good handle …Read the Rest
Did you know that I started blogging/websites when my daughter was a preschooler? In fact, my first website was dedicated to this age: (ChristianPreschoolPrintables) Psssst….Wanna see what CPP looked like when I first started out in 2006? Pretty Rockin’ eh? Ha! Now it’s 2011 and my Sissy is entering 3rd grade. My Bubba is entering 1st grade. And my Monkey …Read the Rest
Oh, golly. This is one of those posts that has been sitting in my “draft” box, patiently waiting to be published. It was meant for May. (of 2011….so not too bad, but still) Do you ever do that? Get a post half finished then forget about it. For months. I do. (obviously.) However this time I think I lucked out, …Read the Rest
I’ve been meaning to make these for a while now. Tonight I finally scratched the itch and whipped them up…Just in time for the school year! I plan on using these with Sissy (Gr.3) and Bubba (Gr.1) in hopes that they will learn the necessary steps to execute a “Scientific” science experiment. I haven’t yet decided on the different projects …Read the Rest
Today I’m joining up with the Not-Back-to-School Blog Hop in order to share what we’ll be using in our classroom for the upcoming 2011-2012 school year. I will be homeschooling a 3rd Grader, and a First Grader next year, and I’m going to do my best to OVERLAP learning where ever possible. In order to prepare for our school year …Read the Rest
Are you busy planning for the Fourth of July? Here is a quick list of some of helpful resources: Preschool Fourth of July Bible Printables K-5 Fourth of July Bible Printables Fourth of July Bible Treat Printables Fourth of July Lapbook Fourth of July File Folder Game Patriotic Crafts & Activities Additionally, here are some more resources from around the …Read the Rest
This week, in addition to multiplication, we’ve been really working hard on learning and understanding Place Value. A few years back I picked up a set of Base Ten Blocks, which really made it easy for my children to visualize what I was talking about with all this “Hundred, Tens, Ones” talk. But it’s due time to to branch out …Read the Rest
I’ve been Ooogling Mama Jenn’s Puff Ball Magnets for MONTHS (Remember Mama Jenn is the genius behind Education Cubes) Well she also has TONS of fantastic learning game ideas throughout her blog too….puff ball magnets being just one of many! They look so colorful and fun, and best of all Hands-On, but I never made them because I was waiting …Read the Rest
We have completed a couple more of our Famous Artist crafts this time we learned about Vincent Van Gogh and Henri Matisse. We are continuing to use the “Getting to Know the World’s Greatest Artists” series For Van Gogh we turned this: Into this: And for Matisse we used these: To make these: All instructions are up on the main …Read the Rest
We are wrapping up our studies on the Inuit tribes of North America with a fun sugar cube igloo: For this project we watched this dated, but informative video on “How to build an igloo” and paired our craft with this fantastic early reader: A Look Inside an Igloo The kids had a blast with this project, as we added …Read the Rest
Last week I set up this Rocks and Minerals Discovery table for the kids to explore with! Let me tell you that they L-O-V-E-D it, and it was hard to wrap it up and move on to the next thing. (Don’t you just hate when you have to pry them away from learning in order to get them to eat …Read the Rest
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