I love this time of year. Really, I just love holidays. They are so festive, fun and provide an excellent learning opportunity for my boys! In keeping with the spirit and because planning can be so helpful in preparing our children for any holiday, I thought I would post links to past Thanksgiving learning projects we’ve done! […]
Holidays
Labor Day Learning Fun
{whistle while you work} I hope you all are having a fabulous Labor Day weekend. My boys are so very excited to have their daddy home for an extra day this weekend… As we enjoy time together as a family, we also plan to take some time to learn about the origins of Labor Day and […]
Preparing for Pentecost!
I ended up caving and making my kids that yummy jello treat when we celebrated the Ascension last Thursday. My grocery store didn’t have any blue jello, so we fudged and I made juice sweetened jello (with white grape juice and blue food dye). It was a hit and something we’ll definitely do again next […]
From Rising to Rising…
As you may remember, I like to take time to meditate on and build up to Easter with my family. But we don’t stop there. It just seemed to be a natural progression to continue on and celebrate the Ascension (that occured 40 days after the Resurrection) and then Pentecost (10 days after Jesus ascended)… […]
Why Easter: A Heart Lesson
I am so very excited to share this idea with you all since I’ve seen so much sweet fruit from it in just the last 30 hours! We’ve been reading our favorite books, acting out the story and doing a craft here and there from my archives of ideas on Easter as we prepare our hearts […]
{LOVE} these ideas right now
I’ve never been a big Valentine’s Day kind of person, but we did have fun with it last year. I sort of feel bad that I didn’t plan better this year. But hey, there’s still time, right?!?!? If you are still looking for inspiration, check out these ideas: Last year, we read about the real […]