Help your second grader master sounding out and reading "ow" words like cow and towel. Download to complete online or as a printable!

I wasn’t entirely happy with any of the Greek letter charts I’ve found on the Internet (I need one that looks good on a projector), so I made my own. Omikron is o as in “dog”…

Rubens Scarelli, also known as Rusc, is an illustrator and graphic designer from Sao Paulo, Brazil. It seems like there is something special in Brazil's air, that it produces some amazing...

Rune comes from the word runo, meaning letter and mystery. Early Germanic systems were runic alphabets. Although the runes—often made by sticks, carved onto stone, wood, bone and metal—represented letters, they were ideographic or pictographic symbols of some cosmological principle or power. To use the runic language meant invoking the force for which it stood. For example the Týr rune is the Norse god of war, portrayed as a one-handed warrior. Týr’s symbol is the sword. Once

Alright, so you want to learn the Hebrew alphabet. In other words, you want to read and write in Hebrew. We’ll do this in under …

We are continuing our Bible Alphabet craft series, and this week with my preschoolers, we learned about being fishers of men, and made a Jesus Fish craft for the letter Ff. Supplies Needed: Pipe Cleaners

An I Spy sensory bag is a great tool for learning all sorts of things! Preschoolers can search for letters while kindergartners can search for sight words.

My Sigils and how I make them My process of making sigils is with a Custom Alphabet, therefore i made my own Alphabet and then with a clear intention I drew the sigils....here's a step by step of my own process....also if you want to check out other way of making Sigils click HERE Step 1 ...Study and practice a few letters from other Alphabets. this is where I started, I have researched and wrote down at least 15 different alphabets from our Roman letters, to Latin, Phoenician, Hieroglyphs, Ancient Greek, Runic Norse, Atlantean, Freemason, Celtic Ogham, to Theban and lots of Others the ones that resonated the most with me was the most basic shaped ones like Freemason, that is mostly squares, triangles and circles...the 3 basic shapes of sacred geometry...In doing this I also found out that not all alphabet have all the letters we have, some of them uses only 1 symbol for letters that sounds the same ex: K-Q, or S-C, so I decided to simplify my alphabet this way too. Step 2 ...Removing the vowels. It is customary in Sigils to remove all the vowels, but if you feel you want to include them go a head, remember there is no right or wrong way to do sigils, there is only the way you feel like doing it. but for me, I wanted to remove them, only because when using long phrases(affirmations) you end up with too many letters and your sigil gets crowded and a bit messy in my opinion, I like them simple and easy to replicate...so therefore my Alphabet only has 18 letters Step 3 ...Writing down my Alphabet. Now that I have remove the vowels, the same sound letters and chose a few styles that I liked, I proceeded to create and play around with some of the letters and finally write down my own Alphabet... Step 4 ...Finding a good Affirmation Writing down a good affirmation is as simple as clearing your mind, setting your intention in your heart, feeling the emotion that comes with it, then saying out loud the first thing that comes to mind, then proceed to writing it down if it sounds good to your ears...now if you want to get technical about it...you need to say and write it in the present tense(as if it's happening now) ex: you might want to have more money so you would say something like "I want more money to come my way" but what you should say is "I have more money in my wallet"...always use the "I am, I have" etc. rather that "I want, I will," past or future affirmation...you should also always use the positive version of what you want or don't want, ex: when you don't want to be sad, you might want to say something like "I'm not sad, I am no longer crying" but it is said that the mind doesn't recognize the word NO or NOT or other words that means "nothing" because your mind can't create on nothing it wants to create with something like happiness and smiles, so you should say something more like..."I am Happy, I'm smiling more and more everyday, My life is filled with Happiness or Happy moments"...now, your affirmations needs to be about you, remember you can't control others or there lives, you have control only of you own life, emotions and reactions. Step 5 ...drawing your Sigil Yep! that simple, now that you have your own Alphabet or Alphabet of choice, your positive Affirmation you can start drawing...BTW you can start with simple words instead of a full sentence, words holds a lot of power even on there own...that is exactly what I did, because usually the longer the phase the more complex the sigil gets, so try and keep it short and sweet.... Now here's my own though process for my sigils...so this is one of my very first sigil LOVE...what a beautiful Word, doesn't even need anything else to make us feel something or have an emotional reaction to it...now we remove the vowel and we get LOVE = LV...that's not much to go with but its short and simple ;)...so my L and My V as you can see in the first picture on the right of my finished sigil...now You can start with the order of your choice i started with the V because I felt like it...lol...then I rotated my sheet and drew the L on the same line of the V...then I rotated the sheet again because it was speaking to me better upside down, then I added another L...why?...well because LOVE is always better in duo...then I refined the lines and made it symmetrical... now here is more on why I drew it like this...The V is like a triangle that represent, fire(passion), the arrow represent the man(male), the Y that formed between the 2 Ls, represent the woman(female)...now this doesn't mean love is only between a man and a woman, it means Love has both genders, It has both female and male qualities, both beautiful&gentle and strong&lively....the finished sigil looks a lot like a Heart and as we all know the heart is a well known symbol for love...and last but not least the sigil is a perfect mirror image that represent duality, equality and even the inside/out or As above so Below. now here's other sigils that I made that you can use in your own magick if you wish. FRieND = FRND The triangle (N&D) that represent the element of fire for action, strength and protection (like a roof over our head), the turning circle (R) the energy flow going clockwise when you start inward growing outward, The 2 scrolls and bottom plate (F) for our own individuality turning in different direction but yet the same because they mirror each other (balance each other out) and they both stand over the same plate (ground level) here on earth. BeST FRieND = BSTFRND Similarly to the Friend sigil, the triangle (N&D) that represent the element of fire for action, strength and protection (like a roof over our head) now it's divided into 3 triangles (B) to represent the 3 sacred fires of our hearts (fire of truth, fire of love and violet fire), the turning circle (R) is higher up reaching the stars this time with a circle (S) of protection around it and the 2 scrolls (F) (individuality), they still stand over the same plate (ground level), but now there is a second plates symbolizing a second dimension for a deeper connection that our earth body can't understand, only the soul can, soul sister/brother, and finally a cross (T)reaching from the sky to the underground to tie everything in troughs heaven or hell you will both walk together helping each other up along the way. CoNSisTensy = CNST The square (2N's) represents stability and the 4 elements, the circle (C) the earth because nothing is more stable and consistent that the element of earth, the yin yang (S) for balance because without balance in your life there can be no consistency and finally the cross (T) for perfect symmetry...with balance, symmetry, stability you can absolutely achieve consistency in everything you do.

I really have been thinking hard about custom made labels lately to label my stuff with, but I don't really want to spend the money to get...

Marcus Tullius Cicero, born on 3 January 106 BC, bestrides Latin literature like a colossus. The combination of an immense output of writings and a strong afterlife in the schools of late antiquity, the Middle Ages, and the Renaissance, means that more manuscripts of Cicero’s work survive than of any...

The majority of singular nouns are made plural simply by adding an S on to the end of the word. However, there are many different rules depending on what letter the word ends in.

Learning letters is the first step in learning to read. Children in preschool and kindergarten largely focus on letter identification and letter sounds. While some kids are naturally inclined to learn letters from a young age, others take longer and that's okay. My mission is to making learning letters and how to read fun and

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Make your own set of touch & Feel Letters for a multi sensory way to learn letter formation and word building!

The Roll a Letter phonemic awareness game is a simple tool for helping kids learn the sounds letters make and recognize the first sounds of words.

The great thing about the AIGA Design Archives is not only do they feature superlative design from its own almost one hundred year history but through its content the entire history of graphic design. Case in point: Albrecht Dürer. In the Archives from 1924 is The Construction of Roman Letters by

TW - SWEARS NEW UPDATE! pride flag cards + a few small additions! create a very legit, not-at-all-made-in-Bob's-garage ID for yourself, your friends, or characters! this does not contain a character creator, but feel free to edit in a picture in the designated area! i have movement options enabled since certain text might not line up properly. i'm very sorry if your name is more than 8 letters long (or includes non-letter characters.) i could only fit in so much with my massive writing, and i already spent a day as-is uploading all the letters! hopefully you can find some enjoyment out of it regardless. feel free to use, edit, and share NONCOMMERCIALLY, WITH A LINK TO THIS CREW! thank you! also no editing out the signature obv, or claiming it as your own. tumblr - https://durdledeese.tumblr.com/ this picrew is a little rough in places but i'm pretty proud of it, so enjoy!

Good character is made up of many qualities. Here’s an ABC list of character traits we can aspire to teach our children.

Something About a Man and His Staff: hey everyone, this Halloween i put forth some effort and actually made something that will see multiple Halloweens to come. . . really, i'll find a way. Well it started off with an idea of a nice staff with lots of carving and wood burn to highligh…

One of the biggest casualties of the digital age has been the fine skill of handwriting, and the opportunities to show off one's artsy and satisfyingly precise script are diminishing every day. When was the last time you picked up a pen?

This Book of Hours was named The Doffinnes Hours after Franchoise de Doffinnes, who owned the book in the late sixteenth century and whose family’s subsequent history remains chronicled on the book’s final folios. However, this prayer book was originally made in the first quarter of the fifteenth century, probably for a married couple, who were originally represented kneeling with scrolls and their coats of arms in the margins flanking the full-page miniature of the Crucifixion (fol. 72v), but whose figures and arms were later erased and overpainted with white. The manuscript contains both Latin and Dutch texts, supplemented by twelve full-page miniatures, the work of the Master of Walters 185. The manuscript also contains twelve pen and ink decorated initials in the Calendar, some with grotesque faces, and letter "G" descenders throughout the book that can be attributed to the scribe Johannes de Malborch. The book’s original Dutch provenance is indicated by its calendar (for the Use of Utrecht) and its Hours of the Virgin, which follows predominantly the Use of the Windesheim Congregation. Prayers in Dutch were added to the end of the volume in the late fifteenth or the beginning of the sixteenth century, and the book was subsequently rebound with its current cream-colored parchment binding of the seventeenth or eighteenth century. To explore fully digitized manuscripts with a virtual page-turning application, please visit Walters Ex Libris.

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i made some graphics for the Whimsy Stories Challenge created by @kateraed​!! see the full story and rules of each gen on her post over here you can either download them from above or download them...

Learn about the seeds we eat in all kinds of foods with this hands-on nature science activity for kids. Goes great with Eric Carle's Tine Seed book.

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I made a decision several months ago to give up the commission side of my art business. As my calendar had filled with teaching engagements and trips to far-flung places, it became more and more difficult to find time to squeeze in the labor-intensive custom artwork. But when my friend Mary approached me a few […]

Help your kinesthetic learner who just wants to move improve literacy by using these 7 games to build reading skills. You child doesn't have to sit still with a book on his lap all day in order to learn how to read.