(This post contains affiliate links.) Picture Prompts Inspire Writing Here’s a fun way to get your kids to write – and it’s VERY easy! Use homemade picture prompts. Simply cut out interesting pictures from magazines, old calendars, old books, etc. and paste them on card stock. Let your child choose a picture, then write a…
My son loves baseball. He’s also excited about his new interest in learning to read. (Thank you, Lord!) So, we came up with a fun way to show his reading achievements – a “book”ball chart. Everytime he reads a book by himself, we’ll add a baseball to the field. We came up with the idea…
This is the title of a workshop taught by Tina Burnell that I attended at the CHEK Convention. This post contains affiliate links. Let me first start by saying, Duh!! I have a master’s degree in education. I’ve studied in depth about teaching reading. I’ve studied in depth about reaching various learning styles. I’ve known…
Ever since my children were babies, we have LOVED books. Because of this love, I have used books as our character building “curriculum”. Just about any good, living book can be used to talk about character issues – good and bad. I’ll include a list of our favorite character building books and give a few…