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J is for Jesus: Part 1

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We are still plodding away at our 12 Days of Christmas fun.  We moved on to J is for Jesus.  If you missed the Christmas activities for the letter C, you can click here and here. CHRISTMAS READ ALOUDS ALuv knows the Christmas story, but it’s still new to NJoy.  So, the first thing we did was read Christmas Angels. …
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Our Jesse Tree

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A few days ago, I posted that we were counting down the days until Christmas on our Jesse Tree as a part of our school day.  I thought I’d post about the Jesse Tree and give a few links to places where you can find info on it if you’d like to give it a try for next Christmas season.  I…
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C is for Cookies & Candy Canes

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We continued our 12 Days of Christmas & our study of the letter C by doing some fun COOKIE and CANDY CANE activities.  Unfortunately, the stomach bug hit our household AGAIN, so we didn’t get to all the activities I had planned.  I’ve decided that days 11 & 12 will be “make-up” days. 😉 C is for Cookie Coloring C is…
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Build-A-Word

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I wanted to share this easy and fun activity that ALuv and I did to review his blends, digraphs, short vowels; not to mention blending phonemes together to make words.  He enjoyed this so much that he asked to play again and again.  I’m planning on changing up my dice* so we can. 🙂 1st dice: b, sh, ch, st,…
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C is for Christmas Trees

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We are in the middle of our 12 Days of Christmas Fun!  These activities are done from 9:30-10:30ish each morning.  I start out by reading a Christmas book from our collection (our two favorite this year were: Mr. Willowby’s Christmas Tree & The Legend of the Christmas Tree), then we count down on the pom-pom Christmas tree, and we add…
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