Books, books, books. We love to read them and it is always fun to explore different genre’s. When I talked about 7 benefits of reading aloud to our kids, I mentioned the benefit of exposing our kids to a variety of literature genre’s. A favorite genre of children’s books in our home are wordless books. […]
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Popcorn in the Park
Week 4 of my Daily Outdoor Challenge is behind us and I believe we’ve finally hit our stride. Habit is beginning to take over and it is normal to head out nearly every morning and evening to explore, run and play WITH my kids. I’m embarrassed at how easily I had grown out of that […]
How to Cultivate Read-Aloud Time
So you want to read aloud to your kids more… You understand how important that can be… Where, oh where do you start with growing those precious times of reading aloud to your kids? Here are 6 ways to cultivate your read-aloud times!
Nature Painting and the Daily Outdoors, Week 3
Well, we just finished week 3 of the Daily Outdoors Challenge! Despite our soaring summer heat, it is my goal to spend at least 30 minutes outside WITH my children, playing and exploring God’s beautiful creation. Want to join in? Blog about your goals and weekly outdoor adventures and link up below. If you don’t […]
Would You Pray With Me?
I’ve mentioned my friend Amanda before here and here. We met through our blogs a little over a year ago and then realized that we lived a mere 15 minutes away from each other… Small world, isn’t it? For weeks, we have been trying to get together and map out our joint summer learning adventures. Today was to be that day. […]
Seven Benefits of Reading Aloud!
With summer here and summer reading programs starting up in full force soon, we get frequent reminders to read to our children. Reading together is such an intimate activity that we get to do with our children. But I’m a WHY person and sometimes it is good to have a reminder of WHY it is […]