Drawing Books: Hands-On Learning Stations

Drawing is not just about making beautiful works of art. Drawing cultivates observation, precision, fine-motor skills, patience, persistence, and a love for beauty to name a few. Frequently, kids can resist learning to draw because they believe they don’t have any natural talent. Practice doesn’t always make perfect, but it does make progress. That’s what giving…

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Playing With Patterns: Hands-On Learning Stations

Patterns are an important mathematical concept. Kids need to have practice in recognizing basic shapes and colors so that they can get practice in identifying patterns in numbers, tables, and graphs in more advanced math. With a few simple manipulatives, your kids can be having a great time getting their hands engaged in pattern making.…

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Fun With Fractions: Hands-On Learning Stations

Patterns are an important mathematical concept. Kids need to have practice in recognizing basic shapes and colors so that they can get practice in identifying patterns in numbers, tables, and graphs in more advanced math. With a few simple manipulatives, your kids can be having a great time getting their hands engaged in pattern making.…

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What Does the Gospel Have to Do With Parenting?

Parenting is a job for which no one is ever truly ready. Raise your hand if you were perfectly patient and kind the day your child came into your life. I know my husband and I weren’t. We sure thought highly of ourselves though! We were just children ourselves. For the most part, we still…

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Fun with Math Games: Hands-On Learning Stations

Games are such a fun way to cultivate excitement about learning. When kids get engaged in a good game, they can play for hours longer than they could sit and complete book work. If you can find one that your kids enjoy, let them play it over and over. I’m focusing on Math this week in…

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