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Our Spring Break- 2014

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Spring Break

Last week was Spring Break in our area. We were all ready to have break for our school routine. It was a time for cleaning and purging. It was a time to play and explore. It was a time to visit with friends and family. I started  the cleaning part of the week by cleaning out every cabinet and closet except the one in JDaniel’s room. (It is hard Continue Reading

Amazing Earth Day Activities For Kids

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Amazing Earth Day Activities for Kids

Here is a collection of amazing Earth Day activities for kids that I have created for this blog and for several others. These crafts, science tools, and activities feature items that have been recycled and reused.  Wait! There are a few Earth Day themed snacks and one or two activities that are not recycled. They were too much fun to leave out of Continue Reading

Earth Day Craft for Kids- Coffee Filter Earths

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Earth Day Craft

     This Earth Day craft for kids helps illustrate that the effect doing something to or for the Earth in a big or small way can spread quickly. One small drop of consideration will bleed into the lives of others and our planet. Okay maybe this is giving a simple Earth Day craft too much power. Maybe not. Children  seem understand on the need Continue Reading

Fun Activities with Chicks and Eggs

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Fun Activities with Chicks and Eggs

This is the time of year for fun activities that feature chicks and eggs. Easter is part of the reason, but it is also the season that many birds give birth during.  (We can hear the baby birds chirping outside our front windows.) A number of big and little chicks along with their eggs have been featured in posts on this blog. Let me share twenty Continue Reading

{Dolch Sight Words} Unscrambling Egg Letters

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Dolch sight words unscrambled egg letters forming the word come.

  You just never know what you are going to find when you open up a plastic egg. You might even find a  Dolch sight words game. That is exactly what my son found when he opened the plastic eggs in the brown basket above. While not the jelly beans he might have hoped to find in the plastic eggs, the letter cards that built sight words were Continue Reading

Easter Coloring Pages with Math and Reading Skills

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Easter Coloring Page with Math and Reading Skills

Easter coloring pages can be more than just filling in various objects with color. They can as you will see in this post be Easter coloring pages with learning skills. Combining both coloring and learning engages children and sneaks in concept learning and review. I created two Easter coloring pages that review a skill that my son and I have been Continue Reading

{What is Easter?} Easter Ideas and Craft for Kids

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What is Easter? Easter Ideas for Kids

  Beyond Easter baskets filled with treats and egg hunts what is Easter? Let's look at Easter ideas and crafts that focus on true meaning of Easter. There are so many wonderful ways to share the true meaning of Easter. I am going to share some Easter ideas we have done along with several really wonderful ideas from other blogs. Each of Continue Reading

Fun Craft For Kids- Torn Paper Easter Chick

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Fun Craft- Torn Paper Easter Chick

Easter crafts are fun to make and send to friend and family. We recently sat down at the kitchen table and created this fun craft creates a fun torn paper Easter chick. One of the best things about torn paper crafts is that there isn’t a wrong way to tear paper. There are times when you try to tear the paper in a shape as we did for the chicks Continue Reading

Update Letter on My Family

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Update Letter on Family

      Dear Readers, Almost every Wednesday since I started this blog, I have written an essay about something JDaniel or I has learned, an activity we have done or what is currently going on at our house. Recently I haven’t been posting those essays. I plan for them, sit down to write them, and they just don’t come. It isn’t that things Continue Reading

Easter Craft for Kids- Bunny Themed Treat Bags

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Easter Craft- Bunny Themed Treat Bags

      Bunny bags are a fun Easter craft! We created bunny bags to contain some special treats for JDaniel’s teachers at school. They are really wonderful and we decide to send some yummy treasures their way. This fun Easter craft was super easy to create using materials we had at home. JDaniel’s  rabbits fun facial features made his teachers super Continue Reading

Cool Math for Kids- Easter Egg Learning

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Cool Math for Kids- Easter Egg Learning

      Simply adding shapes to a  paper egg  can open the door for exploring several math concepts. That is why this post is called Cool Math for Kids- Easter Egg Learning. We actually covered several math skills in this crafty math activity. It all started with a cutting a simple egg shape from construction paper. I selected a bold blue color Continue Reading

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