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Welcome to our school’s journal and witness to the miraculous journeys, discoveries, and adventures that come with a year in the life of our excited, energetic, eager & extremely motivated little family of big learners!!! These big learners are highly intelligent, extremely inquisitive, curiously talented, beyond hilarious, magnetically outgoing, amazingly energetic, brightly shining, bursting vibrantly with good health and cheer, enthusiastically demonstrative and creatively clever, ingenious, artistic, crafty, innately creative, imaginative, skilled, and adorably precious, most loving and loved, sweetest and tenderly thoughtful, kindest and giving kiddos & we are so very blessed and honored to be able to participate in the experience of watching these awesome, amazing, & wonderful beings continue unfolding and fulfilling their destinies!!! These are the days of our school year 2010-2013...

Wednesday, December 29, 2010

WatchKnow - Videos for kids to learn from. Organized. | Diigo

WatchKnow - Videos for kids to learn from. Organized. | Diigo
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Sunday, December 12, 2010

Christmas Links for Your Family!

Christmas Links for Your Family!: "

Over the years I have accumulated quite a list of holiday links. I would like to share them with you…maybe there is something here that will bless you this holiday? Enjoy!


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Online Christmas Lessons


Over the years I have found some neat unit studies and activities online and would like to share the links with you! There are some wonderful units listed below ~ and they are all FREE! Enjoy!


http://www.aholyexperience.com/2010/11/free-jesse-tree-advent-devotional-book/

A Jesus Advent Celebration by Ann Voskamp (Free Download) Ann Voskamp finished up rewriting these wonderful Jesse Tree devotions…and she is making them available as a free download on her blog! HIGHLY recommended!


http://www.jesustreedecorations.com

Make a Jesus Tree! You can download a PDF file with the Jesus Tree Ornaments and lessons to go along with each ornament!


http://www.easyfunschool.com/article1679.html – Original Unit Study

http://www.easyfunschool.com/NamesofJesus.html – Expanded Unit Study

Names of Jesus Unit Study


http://www.easyfunschool.com/Blessed.pdf

A Blessed Christmas: A Unit Study Approach to Studying the Symbols of Christmas

This unit study is EXCELLENT! This link will take you to the PDF file. You can save the PDF file to your hard drive and then print it out for use over and over!


http://www.easyfunschool.com/article1680.html

Good Christian Men Rejoice Unit Study

This unit study covers some of the favorite Christmas Hymns!


http://www.easyfunschool.com/IndexChristmas.html

This is EasyFunSchool’s Christmas page! There are so many great ideas here! Take a look!


http://www.cresourcei.org/jesse.html

Make a Jesse Tree! This site will give you complete directions!


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Sheri’s List of Holiday Links:


Christmas Gift Tag Designer Software

Design your very own gift tags and print them out for all your gifts!

http://www.akidsheart.com/holidays/christms/cgifttags.htm



All kinds of recipes for gift giving, including gifts in a jar and more!

This is a beautiful website with a TON of recipes! She has all kinds of holiday recipes, gifts in a jar (some recipes include the gift tags to print with the baking directions!)…you HAVE to take a look! Why not get your kids involved and make up a bunch of these recipes for neighbors, friends, etc.

http://www.razzledazzlerecipes.com/


MAKE BEAUTIFUL SNOWFLAKES!

Go to these web pages to print out and make some beautiful paper snowflakes! These are so pretty and so easy to make! Do a bunch for your tree and to hang in the window! Once you have cut them out, press between two sheets of paper with an iron on the LOW setting. Beautiful!!!

http://www.daves-snowflakes.com/patterns.html

http://www.marcels-kid-crafts.com/snowflake-pattern.html


An Easy Christmas Tree Ornament to Make!

http://www.amazingmoms.com/htm/christmas_crafts_3.htm


Tons of Great Christmas Activities, Projects, and Unit Studies!

http://www.easyfunschool.com/IndexChristmas.html


Christmas Activities from Eclectic Homeschool Online

http://www.eclectichomeschool.org/christmas/christmasunitstudy.asp


More Homeschool Christmas Resources

http://www.thehomeschoolmom.com/schoolroom/christmas.php


Christmas Worksheets & Puzzles

http://www.kidsdomain.com/holiday/xmas/holidaycrosswords/Luke2ChristmasWorksheets.pdf


Nativity Bookmarks

These lovely bookmarks would make great stocking stuffers for your children!

http://www.teacherhelp.org/pdf/chrisbkmkniv.pdf


Printable Nativity Scene

This would be a fun activity for your children – make their very own nativity scene!

http://ngfl.northumberland.gov.uk/christmas/nativityalbum/index.htm


Nativity Lapbook

Create a neat nativity lapbook with your children!

http://www.scribd.com/word/download/525730?extension=pdf


Christmas Nativity Felt Board Patterns

You can use these patterns for a felt board, for puppets, or decorations for your home!

http://www.dltk-holidays.com/xmas/felt/index.htm


Online Advent Calendar

This looks like a neat advent calendar with devotionals and activities

http://www.teachingmom.com/features/advent.html



Christian Christmas Advent Calendar

http://www.our.homewithgod.com/mkcathy/MerryChristmas/advent/


The Gingerbread Baby Unit Study

This is just one unit study available on this website! Click on their unit study link (at the top of the page) to see other units they have available@

http://www.homeschoolshare.com/gingerbread_baby.php



Jesse Tree Online Calendar

This is a neat calendar that gives you some activities, books, a Christmas hymn, etc. to read/do/sing each day. Even if you have another Jesse Tree devotional you are using (Like Ann Voskamp’s wonderful The Glorious Coming Jesse Tree devotions!), click through the days of this calendar for some wonderful memory making ideas!

http://www.jesse-trees.com/calendar.html


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Wednesday, December 1, 2010

Make Festive Scented Playdough This Season Minieco | Apartment Therapy Ohdeedoh

Make Festive Scented Playdough This Season Minieco | Apartment Therapy Ohdeedoh
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Educational thoughts from history's garden for us to ponder...

~ Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school. ~Albert Einstein
~ I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. ~ Mark Twain
~ The principal goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done. ~ Jean Piaget
~ The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place in which to spend one's time. ~ Sydney J. Harris
~ It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense. ~ Robert G. Ingersoll
~ Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run. ~ Mark Twain
~ An educated man is one who can entertain a new idea, entertain another person and entertain himself. ~ Sydney Wood
~ Education is a progressive discovery of our ignorance. ~ Will Durant
~ Education is what remains when we have forgotten all that we have been taught. ~ George Saville
~ The whole object of education is...to develop the mind. The mind should be a thing that works. ~ Sherwood Anderson
~ Education has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading. ~ G.M. Trevelyan
~ The chief wonder of education is that it does not ruin everybody concerned in it, teachers and taught. ~ Henry Brooks Adams
~ A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education he may steal the whole railroad. ~ Theodore Roosevelt
~ They say that we are better educated than our parents' generation. What they mean is that we go to school longer. They are not the same thing. ~ Douglas Yates
~ What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook. ~Henry David Thoreau
~ Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity. ~ Aristotle
~ Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence. ~ Robert Frost
~ It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. ~Aristotle
~ Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself. ~John Dewey
~ The tragedy of education is played in two scenes - incompetent pupils facing competent teachers and incompetent teachers facing competent pupils. ~ Martin H. Fischer
~ [Education] consists mainly in what we have unlearned. ~ Mark Twain
~ Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing worth knowing can be taught. ~
Oscar Wilde
~ Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another. ~ G.K. Chesterton
~ Children have to be educated, but they have also to be left to educate themselves. ~ AbbE Dimnet
~ Education is not filling a pail but the lighting of a fire. ~ William Butler Yeates
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