They sell them for pennies. And if you attend just one Easter Egg hunt you come home with 25+ of them. Plastic Easter eggs. A waste or fabulous teaching tools? Easter eggs can bring fun to almost any learning objective any time of the year. Here are some ideas to help get you started. Math - Basic hide and seek. Then have the child ...
Impressing on Children
Guest Post: 20 Resurrection Eggs for Easter
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Review: Lily’s Easter Party: The Story of the Resurrection Eggs
Click here to view the updated post: Resurrection Eggs Discover a plethora of FREE Easter activities for the whole family on the ABCJesusLovesMe website! Thank you to Zonderkidz for allowing me to review this book. ...
Making Learning Part of the Day
Pin It Have you check out the ABCJLM Facebook Group lately? If not, you are missing out on a lot of wisdom! "Tina" shared some fabulous ways to incorporate the objectives of the ABCJLM Curriculum into a day with her grandson. I wanted to share her ideas because the suggestions are so simple yet so profound. Below are some of her main points. I ...
How to Organize Your Home Library
Yesterday I explained the importance of building a home library. Today I will show you how I organize ours! I organize just for the sake of organizing sometimes. While this mad-obsession has cooled down due to a lack of time, the teacher in me still likes everything cataloged and systematic. So when I got the hair-brained idea to organize our ...
How to Build a Home Library
The research is unanimous - children should be read to and read to often. And there are a multitude of toddler and preschool-aged books from which to choose. The sad truth is that you can't trust the fact that a book is published that it is a good one! (If you don't believe me, visit your local library!) I think it is mucho importante to build a ...
Visual Perception Workbook Now Available!!!!
UPDATE: The Visual Perception Workbook, 2nd Edition is now available. Completely remodeled with exclusive, how-to videos, your child or student will enjoy the fun activities. Once again, you asked for a book and we have produced it! Now available is the Visual Perception Workbook. You no longer have to take the time and ...
Guest Post: Forgiveness Soap
Forgiveness can be a difficult concept to explain to young children. Tauna shared that she used a bar of soap to help children understand. Read what she shared: To illustrate the point, I drew a child on a whiteboard. Then we discussed how sin is something that can cloud our hearts and separate us from God. The kids provided examples of ...
Fun Christmas Activities
Pin It Here are crafts and activities that are fun for your family to do during this month. I have no ideas why this image is upside down! This is a fun craft using dyed noodles to create a shape - star, tree, manger, etc. Applesauce Cinnamon Ornaments are one of our favorite gifts to create. They ...
Create a Christmas Countdown Chain
A Christmas Countdown Chain is a fun activity to do with your kiddos for very little expense or effort. The kids love to tear off a chain each day and you can refer to the chain every time you hear the "How many days 'til Christmas?" comment. This activity would also work with the Christmas Countdown Activity shared this week. What You ...