Looking for service projects ideas for your group, your family or yourself. I've compiled a list of 60 ideas. Check them out!

Homeschooling with notebooks is a wonderful way to help children develop interests, make observations, and acquire knowledge. It's been used throughout the ages by such notables as Leonardo Da Vinci, Meriwether Lewis, and Isaac Newton. And this video by John Muir Laws shows some beautiful examples of his journals, alon

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Reading the Bible will help you find God nearer, closer, and more available. Find five steps for how to read the bible for beginners here.

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After I bought Marie Kondo's book, I was surprised by some of the things her decluttering list. This post simplifies the list and has a free printable I can use at home!

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Create a Syllabus That Your Students Will Actually Want to Read. Free Resource to download to help you create an Art Syllabus for your art students. Want to try your hand at a visual syllabus? We'll give you three helpful hints. This article will take 8 minutes to read.

Spring is finally here! I love finding ways to integrate art into content areas such as language arts and math. I cannot think of a better project to welcome spring than by creating echo art flowers through a directed drawing exercise. After completing our flowers, we measured with paperclips since we are working on measurement this week. Each student added a sentence under their artwork that stated how many paperclips tall their flowers were. These flowers definitely make an awesome statement for Open House!

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Planning to tutor over the summer? Here are tips for quick and easy planning! Hi there! It's Sarah! I've been tutoring kiddos for the last year and have developed a routine that makes my planning easy and my session flow smoothly. All of the kiddos I tutor are grades K-2 and in need of a boost in their reading skills...fluency, comprehension, and phonics. Warm-up I like to start with some reading that is simple or familiar. I'll either have the kiddo re-read a text from the previous session or read fluency sentences. I have my kiddos keep a composition notebook with past passages to go back and re-read. I use lots of guided reader books to find the just right text for my kiddos to read. These are also great books to leave for kiddos to practice between sessions. Fluency sentence strips from The Moffatt Girls are a GREAT help to boost fluency and confidence! They are also super easy to leave for practice between sessions. Fluency Reading Practice My kiddos have all had good sight word recognition and really need fluency work. I switch between leveled readers and text passages. I usually have kiddos read the text themselves first. After reading, we go back through the text and find words that were tricky and read them. Next, I have the kiddo read through the text with me or by themselves if they are confident. Using a leveled reader Using fluency passages and recording words read per minute (the kiddos love to see their growth!) Find these fluency passages HERE! Using text evidence passages. Grab these passages HERE! Comprehension After some fluency practice with the selected text, I move into comprehension work. In our district, kiddos need to do a written response comprehension question as part of their reading assessment. I have my kiddos practice a written response question with every text and in every session. Comprehension with level reader I use these question stems to develop questions based on the text. Grab the question stems HERE! Completed written response, kiddos write in their composition journal Comprehension with text evidence passages. Grab these passages HERE! Here I use a reading passage with several comprehension tasks for a 2nd grade kiddo. Find these reading passage + comprehension packets HERE! Phonics After the reading and comprehension tasks are complete, I work on some phonics task with my kiddos. One of my favorite tasks is doing a word family word splash. I select a word from our text. I like how this tasks shows kiddos that if they can spell a work like bat, they can also spell cat, mat, sat, etc. Writing short sentences with words from the Word Family Splash Word building and sounding out Extras I like to use phonics poems as an additional fluency tool. The kiddos glue them into their composition notebook so they can go back and re-read between sessions, continuing to build fluency with familiar texts. These phonics poems are from Susan Jones. I use our Literacy Bags in between reading tasks. Literacy Bags break up the rigorous reading and fluency practice we do for much of the session. You can find Literacy Bags HERE! I'm working with a few Kindergartners who need sight word practice. I use the K version of our Differentiated Reading Fluency passages. In K, the passages start as reading letters, then sight words fluently. It perfect support for my K kiddos! You can grab these HERE! Additionally, our Print a Standard packs have been a great support for targeting specific skills students need to work on. Each pack contains tasks for one standard and has several activities for that standard, so there are a lot of opportunities to help the student learn, practice, and master standards based skills. You can grab Print a Standard packs for ELA AND MATH HERE! Connecting with students and parents on a more personal level is the best part of tutoring. I love giving kiddos instant feedback and celebrating their successes! I also love that I can give them more choices to foster a love of reading. In the picture above, I'm showing several text selections. The kiddos I'm working with is able to choose the book he'll read with me for the session. I also love being able to help parents foster learning at home. I've found most all of my parents did not really know about their kiddo's reading level or reading abilities. This makes it difficult for parents to find the best "just right" books for reading at home. After I work with a kiddo, I leave the text piece we worked on for that session (a passage or a book) so the kiddo can re-read it with parents. I leave their composition notebooks with phonics poems for the kiddos to go back a re-read. I also leave the fluency sentence strips for practice between sessions.

This 365-day Chronological Bible Reading Plan will take you on a yearlong journey following the order of events as they happened. Print & start today!

Simple yet delicious gluten-free French crepes recipe that delivers the same delicate texture. This blender crepe recipe is made with only 5 ingredients and no special pan required!

Krydret, lækker og cremet i smagen! Du går aldrig helt galt i byen med den indiske nyklassiker butter chicken - og slet ikke når den serveres sammen med en kølende yoghurtdip og friskbagt naanbrød.

What is unschooling? Why should you do it? How do you do it? What should you read? We’ll talk about all that today and give you resources to help you start.

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Have you been confused trying to find your color type with seasonal color analysis? This blog post will finally help you clearly understand how color analysis works. Understand this first to simplify finding what colors you should wear for your skin tone.

Ever notice that your first sketch of the day is always a bit wonky? In drawing, painting, or any art, a proper warm-up is needed for the best results and improvement.

Learn step by step how to customize and transfer printed out photographs (for a Vision board or for gifts) to canvas yourself using an easy medium paste.

By Fausto Gilberti A clever, quirky book about one of the world's most beloved contemporary artists. Yayoi Kusama covers her paintings in hundreds and hundreds of dots. Her dots come off her canvases to cover dresses, tables, walls, and more! She creates mirrored rooms and fills them with glittering balls and lights, u

Find out how to make flawless chalkboard lettering with basic skills. Try this tutorial to make chalkboards for weddings, birthdays, baby showers, and more!

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Need poems for middle school students? Here are 12 that are funny, quirky, interesting, and poignant. Perfect for teens and teaching poetry.

Need to lose weight for your wellness but overwhelmed by all the summer-body diet info? I get it. At 245 lbs, I was right there with you, wrestling stubborn digits on the scale as if I wasn't grappling with cravings, looking for and trying all types of diets, and juggling complicated meal plans with a hefty schedule. Been there, done that. Me and that life are very well acquainted. But here's the kicker: weight loss doesn't have to feel like you're on an eternal treadmill, running away from cupcakes. What if instead of punishing yourself with diets that make rabbit

The art of Ted Harrison is perfect for inspiring students to create art, while creating spectacular paintings for the classroom (free lesson)

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Create your own DIY Little Free Library with these step-by-step instructions. You'll love feeling part of your community this way!

We’ve all been in a situation where we’ve made a fist, either as an expression of anger or right before hitting something (or an unfortunate someone).

A monthly reset is a chance to start over and give yourself a new focus for the new month. Here are 10 tasks for a successful monthly reset!

This is a guest post from Leah Hudson! It has amazing encouragement and wisdom. Find out how to hear more from Leah at the bottom of the post. When I started homeschooling my oldest, I compared the anticipation to jumping off a cliff into a vast ocean. From my pre-homeschool vantage point, I co

A complete guide to travel in New Zealand - how to prepare, where to stay, the most important sights and suggested itineraries!

If you follow me on Instagram, you'll know I recently got back from a two-month trip to Namibia. It was my second trip to the country this year, and my feed has been an explosion of desert landscapes, epic hot air balloon adventures, and ticking off some of Namibia's top attractions. And after doing a Namibia travel Q&A, I had an influx of people asking me two things: 'Please make all this information a Story highlight.' 'Hurry up and post your Namibia blog posts!' So here it is. All the tips, information, and destinations you need to know about to