Jambo! Welcome to Camp Kilimanjaro, where you'll have an epic expedition through the book of Proverbs! Every day, our kids are faced with choices—will they choose wisely or foolishly? As they safari up Mount Kilimanjaro, your trekkers learn that true wisdom comes only from the one true all-wise God, who wants us to be wise! And He's filled the book of Proverbs with wise sayings for us!

Party Planning is my middle name. Okay, so it's not. And thank goodness, because that would be a long middle name (you hear that, Chef Oliv...

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#1: I made this peanut butter chocolate cake a week or so ago. Yep. It was pretty darn good. But I NEED to stop baking! Ack! Oddly enough the recipe includes directions for a fluffy chocolate frosting but doesn't mention how much of the ingredients you need. So, I just used a chocolate frosting recipe from one of my cookbooks. #2: We had our Cub Scout Pack Meeting last week and had an international theme. The assistant Cubmaster found this fun craft for the kids to do, African Drums from styrofoam cups... The kids loved making them. #3: Erin, the assistant Cubmaster (yep. Both the Cubmaster and the assistant are named Erin...kind of funny)also made a really yummy Italian Lemon Ice. It was deliciously tart. I think we've found a new family favorite. #4: In honor of Cinco de Mayo, we had mexican food for dinner last night and even added a colorful centerpiece to our table. I found the instructions for these fun tissue paper flowers Here. The kids had a great time trying out different color combinations. And even my 3 yo could make these. Luckily I had some bright vases to put them in.  #5: Also...we made our own pinata! It was so much fun. I used THESE directions. When it was all nice and dry, we painted glue on it and then stuck tissue paper scraps left over from the flowers. We love how it turned out! We hadn't popped the balloon yet in that picture. And I'll tell you what, that was probably the best part! The kids loved watching the balloon "disappear" when I poked it with a push pin. But sadly, we didn't smack the pinata yet. My handsome cowboy had to work late. He was busy lighting fires (he works for the BLM and they were doing a controlled burn). And I didn't want him to miss the crazy good time with a blindfold, a bat and our homemade fun. http://erinshakespear.blogspot.com/2011/04/thrifty-thursday-funky-spray-painted.html

  Kindergarten Survivor Tribes  Tribe Challenges Each day the children earn points for working collaboratively to complete tasks that focus around reading, writing and math. The tribe with the most points at the end of the week, earns "Clean Up Immunity" for the day. Rainforest Research Reports The KinderCuties were asked to research a rainforest animal of their choosing at home with their family. Then, their information was published and they illustrated it. The final step was to present their information to their peers.   Labeling the 4 Layers of the Rainforest & Postcards from the Jungle  Evaporation Experiment  Precipitation Experiment  Jungle Shakers TPT RESOURCES Click on the Pictures Rainforest Math and Literacy Fun by Melissa Freshwater  Fun at the Zoo by Growing Kinders  Wild About Addition and Subtraction by Kindergarten Squared  Monkey Memory by Andrea Knight Follow my JUNGLE board on PINTEREST (Click Image)

These landscape collages have a global twist: learning about and then choosing our favorite "natural wonder," and then transforming it into art.

Materials: - Tagboard - Raffia - Markers - Pencil - Scissors - Hole Punch - African Mask Tracer - Scissors - African Mask Examples ...