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{Christmas Math} Candy Cane Counting

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Candy canes and Christmas just seem to go together. Construction paper candy canes created for counting and number matching made a wonderful Christmas math activity. Constructing the Christmas Math Game Each candy cane counting creation was given a different number of stripes. It was a little bit of a challenge to get ten stripes on the final Continue Reading

{Christmas Math Activity} Number Tally Match

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  JDaniel's school is focusing the Common Core. One the Common core math skills he has been working on recognizing numbers via tally marks. Since gingerbread cookies are favorites at my house around the holidays, we recently worked on a  Christmas math activity that has us matching numbers on  pretend gingerbread cookies. How to Put Continue Reading

Homemade Christmas Cards- Old Card Stencils

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The holidays can be a crazy and busy time of year. There just doesn’t seem to be the time to enjoy small family moments. We have to plan many of them in advance or create a Christmas bucket list of them so they won’t be forgotten. Knowing when we will put up our Christmas tree and work on homemade Christmas cards actually seems to help my family Continue Reading

Displaying Restaurant Manners

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Displaying Restaurant Manners

  Two weekends ago I went a friend’s birthday party at a very nice restaurant not far from my house. I don’t go to very nice restaurants very often so, I was excited about getting dressed up to go out. Our group was set to sit in a section of the restaurant that had room for large tables. Just to in front of our long table sat a family Continue Reading

Christmas Activity – Balancing Pom-Pom Tree

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  Green colored craft sticks of various lengths glued symmetrically onto a green craft stick make a wonderful Christmas tree craft and a science experiment. Yes, a science experiment. We could have simply glued the stick together and then glued pom-poms on the trees branches. We could have, but we didn’t. What I did ask JDaniel to do Continue Reading

Sight Word Christmas Tree

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  Being able to build a sight word what you have learned to read is important to building an understanding of the word’s sounds and letters. Recently JDaniel and I sat down to build a sight word Christmas tree. We started by cutting out the trunk and four tiered levels of green for the Christmas tree with green and brown paper. The tree Continue Reading

Thankfulness and Joy

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When the Indians taught the Pilgrims how to grow maize and live the new land they had moved to, I believe the Pilgrims were filled with thankfulness and joy. Recently JDaniel and I went to Roper Mountain Science Center's colonial garden.  The weather was warm and sunny probably nothing like the November the Pilgrims had. The master gardeners were Continue Reading

Science Kids- Exploring Turkey Basters

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  Playing with kitchen tools and water has been a favorite activity at my house for years. JDaniel used to play with a tub of water while I made dinner when he was little. Now that he has started school there hasn't been as much time for it. Science is something we can talk and learn about while playing with water. Just last week JDaniel Continue Reading

Science Kids: Dyeing Corn Experiment

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  We wondered if we dyed popcorn on the outside if the popcorn would be the same color as the outside of the kernel was or would it be white? We also wondered if the dye would seep into the inside of the kernel. These seemed like great questions to find answers to right before Thanksgiving. The pilgrims and Indians are said to have had corn at Continue Reading

Advent Calendar Ideas – 25 Blessings

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  Every year my sister Shell sends my son an Advent calendar with chocolate pieces tuck behind its tiny doors. He loves it. JDaniel looks forward to hearing scripture verse behind each door while he is enjoying a piece of milk chocolate every morning. Why not come up with something special for us to do in the evening each night during Continue Reading

{Five Little Turkeys} Stick Puppets and Rhyme

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Have you ever sung the song the Five Little Turkeys with hand print turkey puppets? If you haven’t you, really should. It really is a lot of fun.  We did it recently at our house. We put this activity together, because JDaniel loves the Halloween book Five Little Pumpkins .When I clear out the stuffed animals on his bed, I usually find the Five Continue Reading

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