Wandering through life one season at a time
Hi Everyone! In our race to get school finished before summer, I completely dropped the ball on this month’s writing prompts calendar. How can it be May already?? I will get it done and out to everyone by tomorrow. My apologies!
Here are the first two days:
May 1st – Look up this Bible verse and copy it: Psalm 19:14
May 2nd – Write the words CINCO DE MAYO across the top of your page. How many words can you create using the letters?
I love my Notebooking Pages membership! I purchased it a couple of years ago during one of these big sales. No matter what we are studying, Notebooking Pages always has what we need.
I’ve spent years using and blogging about free homeschool resources. A product has to really wow me in order for me to fork over my money. NotebookingPages.com offers me two things I can’t find on my own: Time and Quality
It takes a significant amount of time to hunt down free notebooking pages for a specific topic. Making my own is an option, but isn’t much faster. To be honest, notebooking just wouldn’t happen often around here if I had to do it on my own. (Or clean clothes and hot meals wouldn’t happen, which might be a problem.)
The quality of these pages helps my children take pride in the work they do. The illustrations are crisp and clear. One thing I love is that each topic will have several different layouts from which to choose, along with different line styles.
With over 100 different sets, and more added each month, there is probably a page for whatever you are studying. On the rare occasion that I have not found what I want, I just pull one of the many decorative generic pages for my kiddos to use.
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The half-price $50 membership is only available for 5 days. It is a lifetime membership, which means you purchase it once and get access to every notebook page ever created from here on out. What a bargain price for years and years of beautiful printables!
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I am encouraging you to thoughtfully consider if a Notebooking Pages membership is something that will bless your family. Take a look at some of the samples. Print them out and give ’em a go. But don’t wait too long – the 1/2 off sale ends May 4th. You don’t want to be kicking yourself on the 5th! 😀
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It is time once again for Poppins Book Nook. This month’s theme is:
Planes, Trains, and Automobiles
Feel free to join in the fun with the linky & giveaway at the end!
While browsing through books for this month’s theme, I remembered one that my older kids loved. Sweetpea knows the Wheels on the Bus song, but we hadn’t read the book.
I shared a little traffic safety poem that I used back in my preschool teacher days:
Green means GO
Yellow Means SLOW
and
Red means STOP! STOP! STOP!
One of Sweetpea’s favorite things to do is cut & paste activities, so I whipped up a little Traffic Light Cut & Paste page.
We glued ours to a rectangle of black construction paper.
I made two versions: with the poem and without. If you want the colors to be in the order of a real traffic light, you will need to read the poem from the bottom up.
Be sure to adjust your printer settings to borderless or whole page.
–>> DOWNLOAD Traffic Light Cut & Paste with words <<–
–>> DOWNLOAD Traffic Light Cut & Paste (no words) <<–
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Take a look at what the other Poppins Book Nook bloggers are up to this month:
Enchanted Homeschooling Mom ~ 3 Dinosaurs ~ To the Moon and Back ~ Planet Smarty Pants ~ Farm Fresh Adventures ~ Growing in God’s Grace ~ Chestnut Grove Academy ~ Faith and Good Works ~ Learning and Growing the Piwi Way ~ The Usual Mayhem~ Preschool Powol Packets ~ Monsters Ed Homeschool Academy ~ Adventures in Mommydom ~ Teach Beside Me ~ Life with Moore Babies ~ Kathy’s Cluttered Mind ~ Are We There Yet? ~ Our Crafts N Things ~ Hopkins Homeschool ~ ABC Creative Learning ~ Joy Focused Learning ~ P is for Preschooler ~ Laugh and Learn ~ A Mommy’s Adventures ~ Inspiring 2 New Hampshire Children ~ World for Learning ~ Ever After in the Woods ~ Golden Grasses ~ Our Simple Kinda Life ~ A glimpse of our life ~ Journey to Excellence ~ Happy Little Homemaker ~ Little Homeschool Blessings ~ Simplicity Breeds Happiness ~ Raventhreads ~ Water on the Floor ~ Learning Fundamentals ~ Tots and Me ~ As We Walk Along The Road ~ Stir the Wonder ~ For This Season ~ Where Imagination Grows ~ Lextin Academy ~ The Canadian Homeschooler ~ School Time Snippets ~ Peakle Pie ~ Mom’s Heart ~ A Moment in our World ~ Every Bed of Roses ~ Finchnwren ~ At Home Where Life Happens ~ Suncoast Momma ~ The Library Adventure ~ Embracing Destiny ~ Day by Day in our World ~ Our Homeschool Studio ~ A “Peace” of Mind ~ Thou Shall Not Whine ~ SAHM I am ~ eLeMeNo-P Kids ~ Simple Living Mama
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April is National Poetry Month and I am excited to co-host the
2014 Children’s Poetry Celebration & Contest!
{Keep reading for a freebie from me, contest details, and a giveaway.}
One of our favorite poetry books is A Child’s Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson. The poems are simple enough for very young children to memorize, and reflect the innocence of a vintage childhood.
The Swing
How do you like to go up in a swing,
Up in the air so blue?
Oh, I do think it the pleasantest thing
Ever a child can do!
Up in the air and over the wall,
Till I can see so wide,
River and trees and cattle and all
Over the countryside—
Till I look down on the garden green,
Down on the roof so brown—
Up in the air I go flying again,
Up in the air and down!
I created a set of Robert Louis Stevenson Poems to Color for you to use with your kiddos. You can use them as coloring sheets, for copywork, or for memory work. Make a durable poetry notebook by printing the poems on cardstock and placing in a page protector.
Young Night-Thought
All night long and every night,
When my mama puts out the light,
I see the people marching by,
As plain as day before my eye.
Armies and emperor and kings,
All carrying different kinds of things,
And marching in so grand a way,
You never saw the like by day.
So fine a show was never seen
At the great circus on the green;
For every kind of beast and man
Is marching in that caravan.
As first they move a little slow,
But still the faster on they go,
And still beside me close I keep
Until we reach the town of Sleep.
–>> DOWNLOAD YOUR FREE POEM SET HERE <<–
{your printer setting needs to be on whole page or borderless}
Poems included in the set:
You might also like:
Christina Rossetti Poems to Color
Free Poetry Printables & Resources
You are going to want to get your Pin It button ready before you visit my Poetry Celebration co-hosts!
April 1 Preschool Powol Packets: Intro & Not All Poetry Rhymes
April 2 Homeschool Encouragement: Poetry: An Ultimate Homeschool Resource List
April 3 Brave Writer’s Life in Brief: Cinquain Poems
April 6 The Measured Mom: How to Write a Color Poem
April 7 Wildflower Ramblings: Poetry for Children Recitation Cards
April 11 Line Upon Line Learning: How to Read a Poem & Billy Collins for Kids
April 12 Word Traveling: Poetry is Music
April 15 Teach Beside Me: Haiku Poems for Kids
April 17 Living to Learn: I Am Poems for Preschoolers
April 18 The Vicki Arnold Blog: Writing Acrostic Poetry With Kids
April 19 Word Traveling: Poems are the Best Gift
April 21 School Time Snippets: Five Senses
April 22 Our Homeschool Studio: James Whitcomb Riley
April 23 Creekside Learning: 10 Favorite Poetry Books for Kids
April 24 Planet Smarty Pants: Teaching Kids to Love Poetry
April 25 Are We There Yet?: Robert Louis Stevenson
April 27 Word Traveling: Using Poetry to Learn Self-Control
April 29 Look at What You Are Seeing: A.A. Milne
April 30 Look! We’re Learning!: Shel Silverstein
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