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Saturday’s Savorings: With the Fam

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While we did manage to squeeze in 1.5 days of schoolwork this week, we were able to spend some quality time with the family. First, DADDY CAME HOME from his mission trip with the high schoolers!  ALuv was so excited that he decided we should decorate all over the house with streamers. 🙂 I snuck in some writing and spelling (hehe)…
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How Kids Learn: the m & m’s of Learning

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How Kids Learn: Through MULTIPLE and MEANINGFUL exposure The longer I teach, the more I learn about how kids learn. While I have much more to learn about this, I am certain, I am convinced of one thing: that learning takes place through multiple and meaningful exposures.  I call it the m & m’s of learning. Multiple basically means repeated over…
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FREE July Writing Prompts

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Here are our FREE July Writing Prompts from our Write and Color Writing Prompts Pack. Once your young writer uses one of the prompts, s/he colors in the watermelon picture. *Click on the teal download button towards the END of this post for the free July Writing Prompts. 2 Quick Tips for extending writing: Ask the child to use and or…
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Charlotte’s Web: Third Book Club Meeting

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Before our 3rd Charlotte’s Web Book Club, we were to have read chapters 6 & 7. The prompt we asked the kids to answer from these chapters was: Would you like to be friends with Charlotte?  Why or why not? ALuv also did a Roman numeral matching game that I created for him as a review.  I have a number…
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I Spy (Sight Word Edition)

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Here’s a super simple sight word game you can play this summer to keep those words fresh & sneak in some writing: Materials: paper/pencil or dry erase board/marker Sight words: use your Word Wall or you can pick 20-30 word cards-I would alphabetize them first (similar to a Word Wall) Object of Game: To guess the word that the other…
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