I teach my son Jonah’s preschool class at church once or twice a month. In honor of upcoming July 4th, this morning we did a lesson about freedom which included this fun and easy craft: Fireworks Fork Painting Basically, you just dip the back of a fork into washable tempera paint and instruct them to …
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Zach’s Zone: Descriptive Writing
Zach had a language arts assignment to look at a painting and “paint” a word picture about it. He chose a painting I did a few years ago entitled “My Favorite Things.” Here’s the picture, and here’s what he wrote: A yellow cat sits upon a dark purple chair. A royal blue blanket lays upon …
Something new: the Saturday Six
You know how it is in Blog Land…you stumble across someone’s blog and have no idea how you got there, but you end up enjoying what you find. I landed on Patrick’s Place the other day and thought I’d play along with his Saturday Six meme this week. This “either or” format will give you …