After much thinking and your emails, I am changing the letter order on the 4 Year Curriculum. I am also adding the uppercase letters to the 3 Year Curriculum. Let me explain. When I original set up the curriculum, I decided to use a "phonic" order for the 4 Year Curriculum - using letters that are most used in basic ...
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Week 25
Week 25 - Only 11 weeks left in the ABCJLM curriculum! This is Valentine's Week so have fun creating Valentine's and spreading God's love. 3 Year Curriculum - Prodigal Son Don't forget to do the Book of the Week - The Little Mouse, the Red Ripe Strawberry and the Big Hungry Bear 4 Year Curriculum - Wise Man and the ...
Book of the Week Added
While getting ready to make the ABCJLM curriculum into an ebook and hard-copy, I felt like a major hole was in the 3 Year Curriculum. Books! Yes, a book of the week! So, I come to you with suggestions of your favorite preschool books. The tried and true best. Did the titles come in! I enjoyed so much reading the ...
Drawings
Bubs has never liked to draw. Up until a couple of days ago, if you asked him to draw something, he scribbled. I looked in the magazines that we receive and saw these great pictures that kids Bubs' age drew. I knew that the problem stemmed back to his fine motor skills but we had to turn the tide. Along with the Visual Perception Activities ...
Book: Zuzu’s Wishing Cake
Zuzu's Wishing Cake We happened to find this book written by Linda Michelin at the library. I was pleasantly surprised by the lessons taught in this book. A new boy moves in next door to Zuzu. She notices that he doesn't smile or come outside to play. Zuzu tries to make several things for the boy before finally giving him a cake. Upon receiving ...
Review Week 24 at ABCJLM
This week is a review week - do some of the activities that you weren't able to do these past few weeks. The review week also gives you time to focus on concepts that your child is struggling on. Enjoy playing games and drawing "My Family". 3 Year Curriculum Week 24 4 Year Curriculum Week 24 Don't forget about the Week 24 Review ...
Making Paper Snowflakes
We are continuing our Ricky the Raccoon story "Let is Snow!" from our current Ranger Rick Jr. magazine by doing the same activities that the animals did - Making Paper Snowflakes! The kids really enjoyed this activity and several were made to hang on our back door. Snowflake Learning So much learning occurred in this project. ...
Week 23
This week is #23 at ABCJLM 3 Year Curriculum - Learn About Jesus Calming the Storm 4 Year Curriculum - Learn About Goodness and the Good Samaritan Have some ideas to share? We'd love to hear them. ...
Fruit of the Spirit
As a child, I was puzzled over the "fruit" of the Spirit. Why fruit? Character education, based on some of the fruit of the Spirit, is the core of the 4 Year Curriculum at ABCJLM. But do you really understand this "fruit" thing? In the January 2010 issue of Clubhouse JR, Christian Elden does a wonderful job of putting it into ...
Review: God, I Need To Talk to You
Click to read an update on the God, I Need to Talk to You About... series.Because of the 4 Year Curriculum's focus on character education, I was immediately drawn to the titles of these books. I was thankful when Concordia Publishing House allowed me to review a few of them. There are 16 God, I Need to Talk to You books by Dan ...