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Printable Mother’s Day Card to Color

April 23, 2022 by ami Leave a Comment

Mother’s Day is a special time to recognize mothers and grandmothers and let them know how amazing they are! Grab this free printable Mother’s Day Card to color and help your student make a gift for someone special. What’s Included in the Mother’s Day Card to Color? The printable Mother’s Day card includes a stand […]

Free Printable Easter Card to Color

February 22, 2022 by ami Leave a Comment

Are you looking for a fun Easter activity for your kids? Grab our free printable Easter card to color, then let your child make it and give it to a friend or family member. What’s Included in the Printable Easter Card to Color? The printable Easter card for kids includes a stand (on the page […]

Free Printable St Patrick’s Day Card for Kids

February 5, 2022 by ami Leave a Comment

Encourage your student to share joy, love, and kindness with a friend, teacher, of family member with this free printable St Patrick’s Day card for kids. What’s Included in the Printable St Patrick’s Day Card for Kids? The printable Saint Patrick’s Day card for kids includes a stand (on the page with the instructions) and […]

Bee Valentine Card for Kids

January 20, 2022 by ami Leave a Comment

Let your child express friendship, kindness, and love with a Bee Valentine Card! These free bee valentine cards for kids are a great way to celebrate Valentine’s Day and friendship! What’s Included in the Bee Valentine Card printable file? The Bee Valentine cards include three different messages. Bee Mine Bee My Valentine It’s Great to […]

Free Printable 3D Bear Valentine Card for Kids

January 17, 2022 by ami Leave a Comment

Teach your child how to encourage others and be kind with this free printable valentine for kids. What’s Included in the Printable Valentine for Kids? The printable valentine for kids includes five different options for you to choose from. Choose the option that best suits the needs of your student. Option #1: Happy Valentine’s Day […]

Free Printable Christmas Thank You Notes for Kids

December 9, 2021 by ami Leave a Comment

Going from Thanksgiving to Christmas can be awkward in our culture. We have an amazing day of food and family and being thankful; followed up by a day of crazy shopping and ads that cry, “More, more, more!” I’m not saying crazy shopping is wrong; I just wish that we could embrace the gratitude from […]

How the Grinch Stole Christmas Copywork Pages

December 19, 2013 by ami Leave a Comment

          I want to wish all of my readers Merry Christmas! Here is a little gift–a small packet of copywork pages to go with How the Grinch Stole Christmas (one of my favorites!). Click the image below to download the copywork pages. Enjoy!    Merry Christmas! ​Don't forget to check out my FREE […]

A Gift for Our Forest Friends

December 20, 2011 by Ami 2 Comments

We've enjoyed Eve Bunting's Night Tree for many years now. "By moonlight in the quiet forest, a young boy and his family decorate their favorite tree with popcorn, apples, tangerines, and sunflower-seed balls as a gift for the animals of the woods."  This year we had the opportunity to complete a similar activity at one of […]

Legend of the Candy Cane

December 19, 2011 by Ami 8 Comments

We had a rich learning experience last week with The Legend of the Candy Cane unit study from Homeschool Share.  Elijah's overlapping candy cane art ~  Both boys helped bake these Candy Cane Snowballs (sweet and yum). Here are some pages from Elijah's notebook. Elijah learned about alliteration, synonyms, legends, idioms, and he searched a […]

These Are a Few of Our Favorite Games!

December 6, 2011 by Ami 8 Comments

Games are one of my favorite gifts (to give or get)! Good games promote thinking and generate relationships between the players, and I love both of those things! The games on our shelves are a secret weapon; I can easily redeem a bumpy-grumpy school day with some fun {and educational} games. So . . . we […]

Christmas Games Your Kindergartener Will Love

November 20, 2011 by Ami 28 Comments

For December I decided to make something different than the regular Kindergarten Kits, so I put together two files of games. {we heart games!} The first file includes seven math games: Race to Twenty Find the Cookies Snowman Family Tally Clear the Board Penguin Knock-Out Christmas Cookie Graph Penguin Sums You can download these games […]

Candy School {revisited}

November 1, 2011 by Ami 1 Comment

I'm in process of making a Candy Kindergarten Kit for Homeschool Share. It's not ready to be posted yet, but I wanted to share one of the activities in case any of you are turning your extra candy into an educational experience! Also, don't miss my Candy School posts (there are two!) from a few years ago. Printables […]

Many More Days of Christmas

December 28, 2010 by Ami 3 Comments

I didn’t reach my goal of posting every day, but I still wanted to record some of the other things we did for advent.  We read The Candymaker’s Gift and ate candy canes. The boys constructed a gingerbread village. We made key chains for Gramps, Grandpa Mike, Dad, and Uncle.  Simon helped make hot cocoa […]

The 17th Day of Christmas

December 18, 2010 by Ami 1 Comment

Yesterday, the boys made colorful Christmas cats to hang on our tree. You can find the instructions at the Family Fun website.  

The 16th Day of Christmas

December 17, 2010 by Ami Leave a Comment

We made paper snowflakes and we hung them on the window (as is tradition around here!). We also visited the Make-a-Flake website when we were finished (I think this has become tradition as well!). 🙂 

The 15th Day of Christmas

December 16, 2010 by Ami Leave a Comment

The boys received their new Christmas ornaments.  Simon gets a new polar animal each year. His collection consists of penguins and polar bears. This year he got a brown bear with a cub. I’m not sure if that’s polar, but it’s really cute. Elijah’s theme is sweet treats. This year he is adding a donut […]

The 14th Day of Christmas

December 15, 2010 by Ami Leave a Comment

We made Christmas cards for friends.   Happy Card Making! 

The 12th and 13th Days of Christmas

December 14, 2010 by Ami 1 Comment

These titles are getting boring; I hope you all can make it through the month with me! Let’s see. We went to see Dorothy Returns! on the 12th Day of Christmas (for my Oz fanatic) at the Indianapolis Children’s Museum. The boys also toured the Penguins & Polar Bears exhibit, had fun in the Jolly Days […]

The 11th Day of Christmas

December 12, 2010 by Ami Leave a Comment

 We were supposed to drive through the Walkway of Lights, but it was raining. We are hoping to go tonight!

The 10th Day of Christmas

December 11, 2010 by Ami 3 Comments

We read Night Tree by Eve Bunting. Love that book. We made some pine cone (slathered with peanut butter and rolled in bird seed) feeders for the birds and hung them in a tree.

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