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Our Week of Thanksgiving

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This past week, NJoy took a retreat from his usual “letter of the week” and just focused on Thanksgiving.  The theme was integrated into some of ALuv’s schoolwork, too.  (If you missed these recent Thanksgiving posts, they were Thanksgiving tangrams, Colonial Day learning, Thanksgiving Do-a-Dot Mosaics, and A Poem of Thanksgiving.) It wasn’t the heaviest week of schoolwork for NJoy. …
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A Poem of Thanksgiving

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Learning to be grateful is not just for kids.  It moves with you into adulthood.  There’s always going to be someone whose prettier, smarter, richer, more talented, etc.  It is truly a gift to learn to be content with what you have and express gratitude for it.  To integrate some gratitude into our writing this past week, ALuv composed a…
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Thanksgiving Do-a-Dot Mosaics

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*This post contains affiliate links. ALuv (age 6) and I had fun with these Thanksgiving “Magnet Mosaics” from Making Learning Fun.  If you have the Rainbow Set & the Brilliant Set of Do-a-Dot paint, then you have the colors you need to do this, too!  We had to “fudge” on the black and mixed a few colors to get a…
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Colonial Day Fun

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Yesterday, we had our homeschool group over and we had some Colonial Day fun.  (This is something I “borrowed” from my days as a Kindergarten teacher.)  The kids had some hands-on centers in which they learned about the life of the Pilgrims. Here are some pictures of our fun: As kids arrived, they could either color a sheet or work…
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What Not to Spell

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I’ve had quite a few questions about invented spelling recently and wanted to attempt to give my best answer for each.  Here they are in random order: My child spells unknown words as they sound, versus spelling the words correctly.  Is that normal? Yes, yes and amen!  This is invented spelling!  It is absolutely normal and should be encouraged in…
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