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Color Blending: Hands-On Learning Stations
Getting the colors right can turn a good piece of art into a masterpiece. When my kids are out trying to paint in their nature journals, they’re always experimenting with mixing colors to get just the right shade of green or brown. It’s a tricky task. When I looked on Pinterest to find fun color blending…
Read MoreDrawing 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…
Read MorePlaying 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.…
Read MoreFun 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.…
Read MoreWhat 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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