Summer Bible Reading Adventure with Reading Plan- Printable!

Hi Everyone!  Are you ready to READ the Bible with your children EVERYDAY this summer?  I'm talking about reading ONE verse everyday.  I'm going to challenge myself to do that with my son Shrade.  We have a great resource from Scripture Adventures for a FREE download of a Summer Reading Calendar.  I also am giving you a FREE printable of all the verses we will being reading for the month of June today.  I will give you the verses for July and August at the end of each month.  So I will print the Scripture Adventures download off and then flip and print the Summer Bible Reading Plan that I created.  Every day we will read a verse and then mark off a number on the calendar.

Here's my Summer Bible Reading Plan for June.
I'm new to Google Docs, so I changed it to Shared and hope that it works.  If you have questions, please email me at shondaet@gmail.com.  Thanks!

Would you like to join me?  Fill out this form and every month I will email you to see how you did.  I will give a prize to the family that completes the challenge with the most days read and answers an ending survey.  Sound good!  Prize will be a children's Bible.  You do not have to read the same Bible verses that we are.

Join Summer Bible Reading Adventure

Brightly Beaming Resources Week #26: Airplanes

This is our last week with the Brightly Beaming Resources Prep Curriculum.  I can't believe it's been 1.5 years since I started. Shrade had just turned 2 and now he's 3.5.   I had no idea I would actually do all of this and I think I got more creative in the process as well as I had to make things a bit more challenging as Shrade got older.

This week we learned about airplanes.  We had a lot of fun pretending to fly around the house.  And whenever we were outside we would look for contrails.  We even drew grey contrails on a poster one day.  For letter Z, we made a zebra and built letter Z with blocks.  For 100, we counted 100 blocks and made them into a shape of an airplane!  And on the last day we made paper airplanes.  And our Nursery Rhyme was Old King Cole. What a fun week!

Flying like an airplane!

I'm an airplane!

Making letter Z with blocks/song chart

Z is for zebra

Drawing grey contrails behind planes

Our 100 block airplane!

Paper airplane

*Brightly Beaming Resources Lesson 26: Airplanes
*No Time for Flashcards- Zebra craft

Here's the video I used to make our paper airplane:


Books we read:



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What's next?  Glad you asked!  Well, we are going to start doing lapbooks for each letter of the alphabet and I'm excited to try some new things with Shrade.  So stay tuned for my Preschool Posts and in the meantime, you can check out my Preschool Plans Page.

Parenting is Heart Work: Reaching Deep into a Child's Heart

Here we are at session #2- Reaching Deep into a Child's Heart.  I am so excited to share just a few things from Parenting Is Heart Work by Dr. Scott Turansky and Joanne Miller and our home group session.

The heart is the place where we process.  The Bible uses the phrase "said in his heart" 25 times.  Children behave according to what is in their heart.  So, our job as parents is to teach them good things to put in their heart.  And the best thing is Scripture!  So, how do you know what is in your child's heart?  Observe what they say and do.  Make a plan how to touch your child's heart in a positive way.

Questions:
*Is your child an external or internal processor?  Be on the watch for how your child behaves and address issues as they come up.

Make some changes today:
1. Remove old triggers and influences- arguing, negative communication
2. Provide a more structured life- create a balance of scheduled and free time
3. Give more love- learn to speak your child's love language
4.Use the Bible- memorize Scripture with your child

Taken from  Parenting Is Heart Work.

Next time: Correction Ideas that Touch the Heart

Bite Sized Science: 3 activities

 I picked up this book at the library and tried a few of the activities with Shrade: Bite-Sized Science: Activities for Children in 15 Minutes or Less.  We had some fun experimenting with science.  Here is what we did:

Shoebox Sounds

So we found 3 different toys and I put each one in the shoebox one at a time and we shook the shoebox to figure out what the toy was.  Then I had Shrade turn his back and I put a toy in and he shook it and had to guess what it was.  This is such a fun and easy activity!  Will do it again sometime!

Cupboard Talk

In this experiment I took 3 items from the cupboard and we shook them to see what they sounded like. Then Shrade turned around and I shook each one and he had to guess what food it was. Another easy activity!

Light Weight

This experiment was the most challenging, but it was a great way to learn about gravity.  We choose 4 items that were light weight, but some could weigh a bit more than others.  We dropped two at the same time, but before, we determined which was the heaviest and then tried it out.  Many ways to have fun with this.  Shrade couldn't figure out how to drop the items at the same time.

Well, hope this has given you a few new things to try with your little ones!  Thanks, Shonda

What's on our Bookshelf? Jessna's Picks- Tickle Time by Sandra Boynton

I don't post too much about "Little Girl" on this blog, but soon things will be changing. Jessna is one year old now and you will see her face around more often. In fact, I decided to let her have a little spotlight once a month for a book pick. This month Jessna wants to share Tickle Time!: A Boynton on Board Board Book by Sandra Boynton with you.  Everytime I read this to her I tickle her!  She just giggles so cute.  And of course, Sandra always writes enjoyable books for kids. We encourage you to check this one out. 

Jessna is very interested in books and will sit down and look at them for 10 minutes or so.

What's Cooking? Banana Peanut Butter Yogurt (and Prayer Pail)

Both of my kids just love this yogurt and I am ecstatic that neither are allergic to peanut butter. My husband and I don't have those allergies, but so many kids do now, but I love making things with peanut butter so I'm glad both my kids can have this.

Banana Peanut Butter Yogurt
1/2-1 cup yogurt
1 mashed banana
1-2 T peanut butter
drizzle of agave

Mash one banana and peanut butter together. Mix well. Add in yogurt and drizzle agave. Ta-da!

OK, so you may have noticed this cute little prayer pail in the foreground of the yogurt picture.  I got this idea from In Lieu of Preschool.  I copied off the 25 prayers and glued to craft sticks.  We found an old baby food jar and put stickers on it.  Check out Genny's post for more instructions.  We pray these before breakfast and lunch!

Scripture Adventures- Summer Bible Reading Plan

This summer we are going to embark on a Scripture reading adventure with Scripture Adventures FREE Summer Bible Reading plan download.  I am going to choose 1 verse from each book of the Bible to read daily to my 3 year old son.  Then in August, I will choose some of my favorites to read to him.  I will be showing him the importance of being in God's Word and I'm sure we will learn a lot along the way.  I would love for you to join me.  I will be posting my reading schedule the last week of May for June.  I might even throw in a fun contest.  So comment on this post if you are going to take this adventure too!

Go to Scripture Adventures to download your FREE reading plan!

Please comment if you would like to join me this summer!  Thanks, Shonda and Shrade