Seasonal & Holidays
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Journey to Easter Unit Study Overview
Journey to Easter with this Family Devotional and Unit Study! Get ready for the most exciting Easter ever! The Easter holiday is a perfect time to try a unit study! If you are looking for a “gentle” couple of weeks of schooling that will emphasize the Biblical celebration of Easter, this might be exactly the balance of what you’ve been looking for! Homeschooling during holidays presents us with such a great opportunity to LIVE, LOVE, and LEARN TOGETHER! You can read a full post about Homeschooling Through the Holidays HERE! To begin… What is the story of Easter? If you answered that it is the story of Jesus’ death and resurrection,…
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Spring Science Friday Favorites
~Spring Science Activities~ As much as I love the cozy days of winter, I’m kind of ready for a new season. Ready for all the browns to be replaced with greens, for flowers to bloom, and the breezes to be warm. Bring on the spring! There’s just something about the change of seasons that always energizes me….and err….it seems to have been genetic. My kids tend to get that same “energy”. Yep. Spring Fever ! So, this week’s Friday Favorites are just a few fun Spring Science Activities to change things up a bit and get the spring fever wiggles out. 🙂 *Note: I know I usually post history resources, but Spring just brings…
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Artistic Ways to Say ‘I Love You’
Creative ways to say “I love you!”… “I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people” ~Vincent Van Gogh I love you! Easy peasy to say, right? Well it was easy for me to type that to the web world … and even to mean it! We say these words about a lot of things. I love my kids. I love pizza. I love my dog. I love reading. It’s kind of sad that in English we only have one word for “love”… it leaves a lot of ambiguity! And so, over time, these precious words can get quite watered down. They can lose a…
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Valentine’s Day Unit Study Book List
Looking for Books, Movies, or Activity ideas for Valentine’s Day? Valentine’s Day is coming up soon! And LOVE is definitely something to celebrate! I’ve updated and republished a super fun FREE Valentine’s Day Unit Study this week, and wanted to add this list of great books, movies, hands-on activity guides, and other resources to go along with the unit. This holiday is the perfect time to try a mini Unit Study (just one week) if you haven’t tried one before! Valentine’s Day is packed full of history, stories of great courage and true love, literature, geography, and even MATH & SCIENCE!! If you’re working through the Free Valentine’s…
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All You Need Is …
All You Need Is…Love ? It’s February after all. And you know what that means. A day when we try to show how much we LOVE each other. There are cards to say I love you. There are sweet treats to show we care. There are dates, and dinners, and gifts, and flowers… And of course there are songs to say I love you. All you need is ______ ! Fill in the blank. Go ahead, it’s super easy, right? (And you’ll be singing it all day 🙂 You’re welcome!) All you need is LOVE! Why do we want to make things so hard? Today I’m feeling like the world…
