I’ve posted before about how much we love the Grapevine Studies, so I was excited to have another opportunity to try another one of their studies.   They kindly sent us their study called The Resurrection in their Beginner Student and Beginner Traceable, Student and Student Traceable levels. Each study leads the kids to draw stick figures of the Bible characters and events, as they listen to me read to them from the Bible.   The Scripture references are generally short – we usually read only a couple verses for each box, so the kids stay engaged and focused.  By the time they’re finished drawing, I’m ready to move on…

Teaching our children to write can be as daunting a process as teaching them to read.  I remember well how intimidated I was with teaching Super D to read.  I had no idea how to start and was scared I’d fail miserably!   Thankfully, he is now an avid reader and surprises me regularly with the words he can read AND spell!     Our next stage of language development is learning to write, and Here to Help Learning is, well, here to help!   They graciously gave us a year’s access to their online program and we started with Flight 1 Paragraph Writing. Here to Help Learning offers a…