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(Updated 7/19/2022) Welcome, leaders! We’re glad you’re here! You’re looking for engaging activities to excite and intrigue your leaners and we want to help! We’re pairing daily holidays with learning opportunities for your learner, and we try to only choose the ones we find intriguing. Here are this week’s featured holidays with a brief description of skills covered. Book Lover’s Day (August 9th Annually) - Join Goodreads! Smithsonian Day  ( August 10th Annually) – Explore artists, read nonfiction leveled articles, discover history, join live science webinars or browse the archives (earth, life, paleontology and social studies), play online STEM games. Global Kinetic Sand Day   (August 11th Annually)  – Sensory play, following directions, reverse engineering STEM challenge, earth science, engineering, life science, creativity. Sewing Machine Day   (August 12th Annually) – History, nonfiction text, diagram, fine motor skills, sewing, hand stitching, creativit...

(Updated 7/15/2022) The final month of summer is upon us. I hope it finds you well, with summertime goals accomplished and plans for the fall filling your mind. Although, I have to say, I was not prepared to see Halloween costumes and pumpkin spice coffee already shelved at stores. Anyone else feel like it was March just yesterday? It has been a year! This summer has definitely been eventful for us. Our highlight from last week was witnessing my brother's wedding. It was beautiful! And we felt honored to witness it. It fills our hearts with joy to see and share in his joy. What was your highlight from last week? We'd love to hear about it! Just comment below,  or shoot us an email (mr or mrs@wolfestew.com). We're looking forward to hearing from you! If you're here, you're likely looking for engaging ideas to share with your learner, and we're here because we want to help. In our "Idea for Every Day" posts, we choose holidays for every day and pair them...

(Updated 4/14/2022.) Welcome back, friends!  What a start June got off to, am I right? Someone mentioned that if the events of 2020 were submitted as a screenplay proposal, it likely would end in rejection - too unbelievable. It's true. The events through which we're living feel like the plot of a novel packed with one unfathomable event followed by another. But, you're here, reading this. I'm here, writing this. We're in this together. And together we can move forward seeking the joy in each moment, choosing to act in love and learning to forgive - even when forgiveness seems impossible.  This morning I read this Proverb: Photo by Jess Bailey via Pexels I don't know what you're going through. I don't know the bitterness in your heart. I don't know how extremely difficult it might be for you to forgive. But there's this truth: forgiveness is not for others. It's not about saying what they did was okay - NOT AT ALL. Forgiveness is for ourselv...