The latest graphic from Kristin Weins, an educator, inclusion coach, and author of My Gratitude Jar, lists the best practices…

This past weekend I took some photos of some of our mom's new pieces. Here are some of our favorites! Her most popular new ones were these that she took pieces of trims and moldings and made a 'frame' around the edges. *All pieces in this post were lovingly created by Connie!

This is the final post in the 31 Extraordinary Days to be... series. It includes a free 8x10 printable on the ABC's of being...

here is a alphabet song printable and activity ideas to extend kids interest in the alphabet and help to teach the letters through music and other activities

In about a week, I'll be visiting a small town called Hay-on-Wye. This little burg sits on the Welsh / English border and has -- and this is what my traveling companions are unbelievably jazzed about -- upwards of 30 bookstores in a town of under 2,000 people. So I thought it only fitting that I

L’ABC del successo per dummies: la guida alle 3 basi essenziali di ogni grande stratosferico successo. Vuoi sapere da dove si parte, quali strategie usare,

People ask me all the time how homeschool is going. "FABULOUS!" I always say. Honestly, there are ups and downs to every day. Some days, my children wake up bright eyed and busy tailed, ready to learn. Some days, it is a battlefield with teeth gnashing and hair pulling. Let's get real, this is real life, and real life has it's ups and downs. Just because we are a happy, homesteading, homeschooling, gardening, prepping, working, playing, and all in all fabulous family does not mean my family is full of rainbows and glitter all of the time! Life is still pretty good even with it's ups and downs. I believe your attitude is everything. It can change everything. If you are running around with an attitude about things you don't want to do, don't like or things just are not going your way, having a bad attitude makes things even worse! Having a bad day? Yell out to the world, "THAT'S IT! I'M DONE! FROM NOW ON, TODAY WILL BE THE BEST DAY EVER!" Try it, it really works.. At least for me it does. When you have a child in full swing 'I'm going to be a woman soon' mode, ya... not so much. When you are homeschooling said child, things can escalate quickly when she feels she 'Can't do it' or 'It's too hard' or the phrase I get a lot, 'Really, Mom? Do I really have to do this?' Well, yes you do! ATTITUDE! ~Sigh~ Sadly, I have to report this is the attitude I got today on our first day back officially homeschooling. This summer, we did a bit of a review on things we learned and/or mastered last year to help with her retention. We also did new research and activities for our homesteading side. But, today was our first official day back into the homeschool swing of things. At first, she was happy and kind of excited about what I chose for her first assignment. We got new chickens that are very cool and different from our other chickens. Since we do not know anything about them, I asked her to research them online, find out a bunch of interesting facts on them, take photos of our new chickens, write up a report on them, and then I would edit that report and she would be a 'reporter' for me on my blog. This morning, she was excited about this, even told a few of my co-workers. By the time we got home, her attitude about the assignment had changed. Maybe someone said something, maybe she got tired, maybe pre-pms caught up to her.. I don't know. All I know is, suddenly my child had major attitude about the whole thing and I was not having it. The stern looks and me saying, 'Watch the attitude!" were not helping. Her slam/bouncing a crayon onto the counter top because she did not want to go get a pencil to write with, was almost enough to change my attitude. So, I decided it was time for a change in hers. Recently, there was a photo posted of a chart that looked like this... I have no idea who to give credit to for this photo, but this is amazing! So she was sent huffing and puffing back into her room for a pencil AND a spiral notebook. I started her out by writing a few letters out and leaving space between the first line and second line, she finished the rest. Then under it we added the numbers. She was intrigued at this point. I told her we were going to find a secret message that would make everything better. And it did make everything better. Saying it was a secret code made her relax and become interested in finding out how much 'hard work' added up to. She was not happy with the extra math for the day, but her attitude had greatly improved by the time she had found out the sum of 'knowledge.' By the time she was on 'attitude' I had my rainbows and glitter girl back. "What is the secret code, Mom?" "Let me ask you this first, baby. Do you know what 100% means?" She told me if you get 100% on your paper that means you got them all right. I smiled and explained 100% means all, everything, the total of something. Sometimes things are hard for us, you can work hard and still you might fail. You might have all the knowledge in the world and still not succeed. But your ATTITUDE determines EVERYTHING! She looked at me with a 'Okay, you got me!' half smile and turned the page in her notebook. Then, she got out her computer and typed in 'All about Jersey Giants' on the Google home page.

Chris Michael: The London transport network has inspired a dazzling array of posters, designs and cartographic artwork for more than 100 years. Explore some of the best examples

This beautifully presented poster defines 26 feelings (A-Z) portrayed through word and picture descriptions. It can be used as an alphabet chart (junior), feeling thesaurus/writing prompter (elementary/jnr high) or as a social-emotional tool for children to discuss feelings (range of yr levels). Or use it however you like :) The feelings are: Angry Brave Content Discouraged Excited Furious Guilty Humiliated Impatient Jealous Keen Lonely Mad Nervous Overwhelmed Proud Quiet Relieved Stubborn Thoughtful Uneasy Valued Worthless Xenophobic (fear of strange/foreign things or people) Yucky Zonked (exhausted) Please leave feedback, and feel free to ask questions via this page or visit my blog :) cheers, big idea learning

Welcome to the “ABC’s of Values for Children” series!Below, you will find a clickable list of the most important values to teach your children. “To educate a person in mind and not morals is to educate a menace to society” ~Theodore Roosevelt “100 doctorates from the finest universities in the world cannot compensate for a lack of […]

I get quite a bit of inspiration from my deep thoughts! Give me a quiet beautiful location with little worry and I can think about a lot. Seriously. My favo

This is a companion PowerPoint for my ABC No Prep Poetry Folders. I like to project the poem for whole group shared reading prior to having students read their own poems in their poetry folders.

Perfect = Boring, by Laura Last weekend was the Sturgis Falls Arts And Craft Fair in Cedar Falls. It was NOT the perfect weather-- it was HOT! But the day was anything but boring! We had a great spot on the end where we could spread out a bit, there was a bit of shade from a tree and we occasionally got a glimpse of a cross-breeze that people further down didn't get. We enjoyed strawberry smoothies in the hottest part of the day and amused ourselves with ice cubes, cold water bottles from the cooler and a spray bottle fan from Disney World. Many of our favorite special customers made appearances! We are considering a frequent flyer club or a punch card or SOME kind of special perks for those repeat customers who are brave enough to come back again and again. ;-) At the least, we probably should have misted them with our fan! Did I mention it was HOT-a-la-leela! Here are some highlights of our booth: Mamma Winger (Connie) created several skinny abc's that all sold right away! Plus she had some new dolls for sale. Ya gotta love those mustachioed fellas! That's me (Jill) in the mirror - my apologies to the unsuspecting lady in orange whose bust I unwittingly captured. stuffed owls by Connie display well hello to you too! (Laura's bird) (Sold) A crowd favorite that everyone who came into our booth had to read out loud: "No whining (ever.) -sincerely your parents." "Always take your rainbows with you." Ask Connie if you'd like to know exactly how one would go about doing this. :-) Yes, I believe that bird is wearing a purple bustier. bird by Laura by Connie on the left, Jill on the right. Both sold. Rocks with words and images, by Connie display True Story!!! We love that the owl on this piece by Laura is made from fabric! (Sold) Abc's of Life by Connie (Sold!) Good advice for kids AND adults: "Go outside and play." by Laura signs and angels made from upholstery fabric samples, by Connie We love us some Jesus! -by Laura yup. -by Laura Hello...is it me your looking for? (sung in Lionel Richie style) by Connie For Reals! (by Laura)

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

Jane Austen Metal Bangle: To paraphrase Mrs. Bennett, if you like it, put a ring on it, with this Austen bangle.Beluga Bookends: That prized collection of Moby-Dick editions getting a bit too

Today's typeface is Fire-Poi, in honor of Valentine's week. Created by graphic designer Nir Tober.

Looking for worksheets by subject? Here's a great place to start. We have language arts, math, social studies & science worksheets for kindergarten & first.

But let's put all of that aside as we take a look at typography used as an experimental form of art.