When our school year is over, we have a break from the regular routine. This means that our regular family scripture study is disturbed as well! I feel that it is super important to keep reading throughout the summer. I want my kids to join our fun summer reading programs, but I also want to
I’m starting my twelfth year of homeschooling, and we’ve always done scripture study or devotional of some kind every day. With my youngest two kids this year, I’ve felt the need to do more formal faith-based values lessons in our home (especially for a particular child!) to better encourage generosity and compassion. As I’ve worked
Here’s something to add to your Christmas sensory activities list for your toddler! Gather the textures of the first nativity in a basket, as based on a favorite Christmas Carol. My daughter loves sensory activities and this Nativity textures activity encourages exploration, as well as developing a growing understanding of the story of the first
I wanted to make something simple for friends and family, and so I turned to my massive clip art collection and my jar of Mod Podge! These simple DIY Christmas ornaments were such a nice thing to give to friends this holiday season. Scroll down to find out how I put them together and to
I have loved learning about the Jesse Tree tradition. Have you heard of this? You study the prophets in the days leading up to Christmas to help remember the true meaning of the season. I found Jesse Tree images set on TeachersPayTeachers. This year I was eager to make our own set of Jesse Tree
Recently, I talked to one of my friends about the hardest part of teaching our young children. We decided that the hardest part of teaching our children is that we are still learning ourselves. Our children see our mistakes and follow our own bad examples. It is so hard to teach our kids what they need
It’s never easy to get a my resistant child to practice speaking in a foreign language, so one thing I like to do is move Spanish-language speaking into our familiar, daily use with getting in the habit of using certain words and phrases. Learning to pray in Spanish is one way we can put that practice into our
