Advent is a time of preparation...and anticipation! Enjoy these fun and free printables to help your children along the Advent path to Christmas when baby Jesus comes. Here's a simple Advent wreath to color. Cut out the candles when you're done and paste them onto the wreath. Click to print. This printable features a Christmas tree with ornaments to color, one day at a time. Click the image to print a large version. Found on dibujos.org Here's a beautiful, hand-drawn Continue Reading
4 Important Money Lessons for Children
After making plenty of money mistakes when we were single and first married, my husband and I got on a written budget five years ago and today are happy to have only our mortgage when it comes to debt. There are four important money lessons we want to instill in our children, and I'm thrilled to have found a program for children ages 6 to 11 called Money Savvy Kids that helps reinforce these principles! 1. Don't spend any money until you have a plan for it. Even if it's just five dollars in Continue Reading
Homeschooling and Dealing with Bad Attitudes
It's almost inevitable. After staying home and doing school work with mama day after day, the telltale signs of a poor attitude will become evident. Your home schooled child will: Slump down in the chair and scowl at the books in front of him. Let out a deep and audible sigh as you start to teach, ask questions or explain an assignment. Deliberately look at something else other than the page right in front of him. Roll his eyes when you mention it's test or quiz time. Indulge in Continue Reading
How to Help a Young Child Write Numbers 1-10
Learning to count out loud isn't that difficult, but writing the numbers on paper can be a real challenge for small hands. Years ago, I found these helpful little teaching rhymes in an Amish workbook; children can say them out loud while drawing the numbers: 1 "A straight line down and then you’re done- this is how you make a one." 2 "Around and back on a railroad track: TWO TWO TWO!" 3 "Around a tree and around a tree – this is how you make a three." 4 "Down and over, down some Continue Reading
Carson Dellosa Educational Games Review and Giveaway
My thanks to Carson Dellosa for sending us 3 games to review! A long time ago, my husband and I designated Thursdays for "game night," and it's something that we and our oldest children look forward to each week. We might just crack open a deck of cards for a couple of games of Battle; on other nights (when the baby is happy and the toddlers have fallen asleep early) it might be something more involved like Monopoly, Risk or Agricola. Carson Dellosa Publishing sent three educational games our Continue Reading