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Confessions of a Homeschooler

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Confessions of a Homeschooler

Character Study: Selflessness

Character Study: Selflessness
Homeschool  Bible / Character Study / Discipline / Selflessness

Welcome to the 4th study in my Character Study series based on selflessness (vs selfishness). I thought with Christmas coming, this might be a good time! (click on the image or link below to download a pdf of this study.) A Character study: Selflessness Other books required for this study:…

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Sculpey Clay Christmas Ornaments

Sculpey Clay Christmas Ornaments
Art / Christmas Crafts / Homeschool  Christmas / Christmas Activities

Each year we make some sort of Christmas Ornaments. This year we decided to try Scupley clay for our ornaments. Supplies: Sculpey clay Rolling Pin Straw (used to poke holes for the ribbon) Cookie cutters (Optional, we cut shapes out of the rolled clay) Ribbon Paint, or we used Sharpie…

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Letter K for Kite

Alphabet / Homeschool  Letter K / Numbers / Phonics / PreK / Workboxes

Welcome to the Letter K preschool activities. We’ll be having fun with Kites this week! Letter K Memory Verse: “Keep your tongue from evil and your lips from speaking lies.” Psalm 34:13 Click here to download the verse puzzle. (Note: I use this with my 2nd grader, not prek) For…

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Expedition Earth ~ Italy

Geography / Homeschool  Europe / Geography / Homeschool / Italy / World Geography

Buon giorno and welcome to our Expedition Earth week on Italy! As a country near and dear to my heart this week, we had a great time, and I even learned some new things about Italy too! Of course we started off our week finding Italy on the map and…

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Word Family Ladders

Homeschool  K4 / Kindergarten / Phonics

Thanks to the wonderful idea of a reader, I’ve created these Word Family Ladders. They’re similar to my beginning sound Blend Ladders, but these contain 37 common word families for your children to work on. Click here to download the Word Family Ladders We use plastic alphabet letters or dry…

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Character Study: Patience

Character Study: Patience
Homeschool  Bible / Character Study / Discipline / Patience

Welcome to the 3rd study in the series and is based on Patience. (Click on the image or link below to download a pdf of this study.) A Character Study: Patience Other books required for this study: The Bible (any version will do!) Each day you will learn a verse,…

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Handmade Beeswax Candles

Handmade Beeswax Candles
Advent / Art / Christmas Crafts  Advent / Christmas

I said, this year I ordered some Make your own Advent Candles and Bartholomew’s Passage for our Christmas Advent activities. I have to say that these candles didn’t come with any instructions, so I thought I’d post my pictures, it was really quite easy. Click here to download Printable Advent…

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Bottle Cap Counting Cards

Bottle Cap Counting Cards
Homeschool  Bottlecaps / K4 / Math / Numbers / PreK

Since we have so much fun with our Bottle-cap Alphabet Activities, I wanted to create some number disks as well. I’ve been meaning to do this for awhile, and a kind reader “reminded” me, so thank you! Click here to download the Letter Disks and Activity Cards Just make the…

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Character Study: Obedience

Character Study: Obedience
Homeschool  Bible / Character Study / Discipline

Welcome to the 2nd study in this series based on Obedience, you can click on the image or link below to download a pdf of this study. Thanks to a good friends suggestions, I changed up the format to flow more smoothly and added in some extra things as well.…

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Preschool Christmas Activities

Homeschool  Christmas Activities / PreK / Workboxes

Hi everyone! I wanted to share my Preschool Christmas Activities for this year! We’re officially on break for school now, but we’re still having fun with preschool games, Christmas crafts (don’t worry, I’ll share!), holiday baking, Advent activities and Christmas Around the World! (I know, not really a break huh!)…

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