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Are you looking for something different and more meaningful to do with your children for Easter beyond coordinating outfits, chocolate bunnies, and Easter baskets filled with goodies? We are a Bible believing family who worships our Lord each Sunday, but especially His resurrection on Easter Sunday. But we also enjoy a fun Easter egg hunt after church. Egglo Entertainment has come up with a way to have that egg hunt while maintaining the true meaning of Easter. We reviewed The Egg-cellent Easter Adventure and Glow in the Dark Egglo Eggs this past month and I am excited to share these products with you! The Light shines in the dark and the darkness has not overcome it. ~ John 1:15 Egglo Entertainment is the creation of Darcie Cobos. It all started with her desire to help show her own children the true treasure of Easter. She shared her vision with children at her local church and watched it grow into an incredible outreach ministry. The message behind the glow in the dark eg...

Well, let's just call this Freebie Friday! Sherri at Luv a Bargain has come through again! In a listing of 20 Fun Freebies, I came across this Easter Lapbook download by Scripture Adventures . I always love to pause the week or so before Easter and focus on Jesus' death and resurrection in our homeschool studies. If you would like to take advantage of this free lapbook, just click here . All you have to do is provide your name and e-mail address. Thank you, Sherri , for helping me teach for FREE!

Okay, really, it's Tuesday and I am just now doing last week's wrap-up. I was just so absolutely behind all last week so our schooling was a sporadic mess, to say the least. Dawson spent the majority of his time doing his independent work. I did make an intentional effort, however, to make sure Brynne and I got through some of our Easter Nature study. Brynne ~ 1st Grade Last week was all about Easter, and specifically Jesus. We read the wonderful folk tale "A Tale of Three Trees". This book seemed to help her really grasp the important things about Jesus. She loved it and retold it to me a couple of times during the week. We also learned about the importance of the crown of thorns placed on Jesus' head, and how he carried the thorns of our sins all the way to the Hill of Calvary. We went on a thorns nature hike and touched them. She then spent some time drawing them on her notebook page. We also went on a color scavenger hunt. We completed our Hil...

We were out of town this weekend and I have been behind since we got home. Therefore, our wrap-up from last week is late and we weren't prepared to start this new week! Ughhh! I hate that! Here is a short synopsis of what we got done last week. Dawson ~ 8th Grade We are knee-deep in the Age of Exploration . We were learning about Christopher Columbus this week and went to the driveway to draw out the measurements of the Nina, Pinta and Santa Maria with sidewalk chalk. You can't see the lines, but they were basically about the size you see here. Not very big for all they were trying to carry. In science we discussed the different ways water freezes depending on the amount of salt in the water. Water definitely does not freeze as fast or as solid when it has salt in it. The Swiss Family Robinson has actually been boring to Dawson. I think what is frustrating for him is that they basically had everything they needed to survive. And they always seemed to find exactly w...