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Lesson Plans / Ideas

Carnival of Homeschooling

April 12, 2011 Lesson Plans / Ideas

Greetings to one and all!!  Thanks so much for stopping by and taking part in the most fabulous blogging carnival on the internet! Every time I host this carnival, I can’t help but think about all the hard work the Cate’s must have put in to make the carnival as widespread as it is.  What [...]

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Teaching Kids About Missions – Follow Up

March 8, 2011 Lesson Plans / Ideas

Since this topic is the second most popular on our website, I wanted to show you some of our finished products!  (Here is the first article – Teaching Kids About Missions.) This lapbook was the very first one we did and it was about our very own United States of America.  When I teach my [...]

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Successful First Grade Math Activity!

November 12, 2009 Lesson Plans / Ideas

We had TONS of FUN doing math recently and I just had to sit down and tell you about it!!  It was such a simple and easy idea that I am amazed at how much the kids liked it. This year, I’ve been working on 1st grade studies with one of my children.  We began [...]

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Thirsty Thursday – Lesson Plan Ideas for Teaching Kids About Missions

September 3, 2009 Lesson Plans / Ideas

Welcome back to another edition of Thirsty Thursday with Joy at FiveJs! Missions. Just that one word says so much.  They leave family and friends and comforts behind.  They move on to uncharted territory.  They sacrifice time, money, energy, personal comforts and even personal well-being sometimes.  They do all this for Jesus – to spread [...]

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Thirsty Thursday – Reading

June 25, 2009 Homeschool Building Blocks

I am in the second chapter of an absolutely FABULOUS book that I already think every mom and dad should read!!  It’s called “How To Teach Your Baby To Read: The Gentle Revolution” by Glenn Doman and Janet Doman (father and daughter team). They talk about teaching very small children to read.  But, this book [...]

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Review: My Big Book Of Stickers, Fun and Educational Activity Book

June 12, 2009 Lesson Plans / Ideas

Stickers and education don’t belong together!  Or, do they?  We have had a great time using this book and it has reinforced many preschool concepts without much planning. The reason I purchased this book was for those times when I didn’t get the chance to plan out a specific lesson for my preschoolers.  I have [...]

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Here’s A Quick Lesson Plan For Samson And The Lion (Judges 14) – with video

June 10, 2009 Lesson Plans / Ideas

One of our Bible lessons this week included the story in Judges 14 about Samson’s encounter with a lion on the way to Timnath. I think my kids had a great time with this lesson, even though it was very simple and easy to create. Here’s what we did: Talked about it. As usual, I [...]

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Joshua Fought The Battle Of Jericho

June 3, 2009 Lesson Plans / Ideas

Recently, our Bright Beginnings curriculum took us through the battle of Jericho with Joshua and the children of Israel.  We had a really great time learning about this together so I thought I would share what we did! First, I sat at the dry erase board with my two preschoolers and we read through the [...]

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Weekly Lesson Plan – Week of May 3, 2009

May 3, 2009 Lesson Plans / Ideas

Yet another week coming at’cha!  What are you excited about this week?  What are you ready to tackle?  What moments will your children have that you will remember forever?  How many times will you say “I love you” to each other?  How many times will they look to you for help, knowing you’ll always be [...]

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SUCCESS STORY for Weekly Lesson Plan – Week of April 26, 2009

April 27, 2009 Lesson Plans / Ideas

Today turned out far better than I thought it would have and I just had to share the story!!  The cutie-pie in the photo above has lots to do with the success of the day! As I mentioned in the original post for this week, I planned to bake banana bread with the kids today [...]

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