Fun, Friends and the Holidays
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Our homeschooling group loves to get together during the holiday season for special celebrations. Over the years, we’ve enjoyed many uniquely fun times together. I hope you are inspired by one or two of these ideas for holiday group gatherings and enjoy sweet fellowship with your homeschooling group this season. Ornament...
Unit Study: American Girl
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We all probably know one girl in our lives (our own daughters and their friends or another relative) who has an American Girl dollIn our homeschool, we’ve done a lot with the American Girl dolls (from the Pleasant Company). My daughter has quite a collection and she still loves them as much as ever at eleven years old....
Symmetrical Painted Butterfly Craft
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With summer upon us, I am looking for more fun activities to entertain my kids! One of our favorite crafts is making symmetrical painted butterflies! Supplies: All that you need for this fun, colorful craft is some cardstock, tempra paints, pipe cleaners, and scissors. Instructions: First, cut the cardstock in half. Then fold...
I Spy…New Beginnings, Students, and Inspiration
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Hello dear friends! It’s time again to share a taste of what’s going on in the blogosphere these days. This week, the web is full of relevant, interesting articles all about starting the new year off right and ideas to make this year your best year yet! Are you excited? Because I sure am, so let’s get this party...
Encourage Your Children to Express their Creative Side
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Oh how I love art and crafting. Although all my kids have their own favorite activities, I am a watercolor fan. I truly wish I had a bit more time to develop my drawing and painting skills. When I lived up north I would take the littletons to art museums often. The true beginning of this activity began for me the first time I...
Two Quick and Easy 3D Presentation Ideas
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Need something unique for tomorrow’s lesson? Here are two easy to assemble, stand-up papercrafts that can be adapted for most any homeschool topic. Project 1 –Tower with Flaps This first one, a tower with flaps, is perfect for material that can be divided into four parts (or three parts plus a title...
Laying a Foundation for Preschoolers
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Something I am learning about having preschoolers in the house is this: I am laying the foundation for them now. This is a season of habit training, not just academics and fun creativity {although that is important as well}. Laying the foundations of habit training now will save much time and energy later. One of my favorite...
At the Forum: Giving Thanks 2009
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When I was little, my family would travel to my granny’s house for Thanksgiving. I loved this time of the year when our family would spend time together. And on Thanksgiving, we would all gather at the table, stare in awe of the Great Bird and all the fixings. We would start the meal off with a prayer and then start...
Fall Into This Idea for Art (Part 1)
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Fall is one of the most perfect seasons as far as I am concerned; I only wish it lasted longer. I love to breathe in the scent of warm soil, slowly decaying leaves, and the myriad of spices begging to be added to purees of pumpkin, squash or apple. How can one spend any amount of time outside and not be inspired to at least...
Passports for Missions
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Have you considered traveling internationally, or taking a family mission trip? When Hudson Taylor was only five years old he said, “When I’m a man, I mean to be a missionary and go to China.” This mission call grew, until as a young adult Hudson Taylor exclaimed, “I feel I cannot go on living unless I do something for...
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