Seasonal & Holidays
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Valentine’s Day Mini Unit Study- Fields of Daisies
Valentine’s Day is a fantastic time to try a unit study ! Unit studies are a great way to learn! Whether you are looking for a better way to teach multiple aged children all at once, you want more freedom, JOY or creativity in your learning, or you just want to dig a little deeper into a topic, a unit study might be just the answer you’re looking for! Valentine’s Day is packed full of history, inspiring stories of real love and determination, and believe it or not, even some pretty SWEET science! You can cover all your subject areas this week AND have FUN learning! Also, don’t miss the…
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A Pioneer Christmas- Hands On History Unit
What was Christmas like for the Pioneers? It’s 1854… many children have traveled miles and miles with their families to settle the wide open prairies on the American plains. Kirsten is one of these children. Her family came all the way across the ocean from Sweden to start a new life! She wonders if Christmas in America will be much different than the Christmases in Sweden that she remembers. Would there be warm, cinnamon bread? And presents? And cheerful Christmas decorations to hang in their new home? What do you think? Let’s find out together what Christmas in Pioneer America might have looked like! If you want to add…
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5 Simple Steps to a Summertime Neighborhood Movie Night
*5 SIMPLE STEPS TO A SUMMER NEIGHBORHOOD MOVIE NIGHT* Someone once said, “A perfect summer day is when the sun is shining, the breeze is blowing, the birds are singing, and the lawn mower is broken”. YES ! THOSE are the kinds of days I’m looking forward to! The lazy days of summer somehow seem more acceptable. People sit on their front porches. Kids play across the yards. Neighbors seem to have time to stop and chat. There’s just something about this season that draws people outside. Recently, over a long weekend, my neighbors put together a Neighborhood Movie Night. It wasn’t anything fancy or over the top. Invites were sent…
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Thanksgiving History- History and the Holidays
History and the Holidays- Thanksgiving Through History Do you know when and where our celebration of Thanksgiving began? Did you guess that the first Thanksgiving happened in 1621? Did a picture of a group of Wampanoag Indians gathered together with some of the Pilgrim settlers from Plymouth for a feast giving thanks for the fall harvest pop into your head? If it did, you aren’t wrong… But was that really the FIRST Thanksgiving?
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A Family Journey To Easter Devotional
To begin… What is the story of Easter? If you answered that it is the story of Jesus’ death and resurrection, you are right! BUT you might be surprised to know that this is only part of the story, and NOT where the story begins at all! The Easter story actually starts a very, very long time before that, thousands of years before Jesus’ crucifixion and the day He rose from the dead, and is still unfolding! This exploration of Easter will take us on a journey from the beginning of the story, all the way up to how it is unfolding today! How can we understand the whole story?…
