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(Updated 4/25/22.) It’s official: summer’s here! While we’ve been out of school for a while, knowing it’s officially summer makes me consider summer goals. Before summer’s end, we hope to go camping at least twice, attend a wedding, clean out our garage, foster curiosity and love for others in our learners, pray through surgery and recovery, and search for God’s will in a new job, all the while continuing to reach out to you through Wolfe Stew . What about you? What are your summer goals? While you’re here, we’re hoping we might just be able to help walk with you through some of those goals. To reach that end, we’ve gathered ideas for you (and your learners) for this fourth week of June, and we’re plating them up in the following ways:   June Calendar – Ideas at a glance with clickable links for you advanced planners. Weekly Blog- You’re reading it now. 😊   SUBSCRIBE by submitting your email in the side panel to get them delivered directly to your inbox. Check out our four recent

I'm curious - what's been your favorite national day activity lately?  Last week, my nephew and I engaged in (what he calls) mini-school.  I seized that opportunity to try out some of these ideas for every day I've been blogging about.  The activities we chose were to honor April Fools' Day and National Crayon Day.  For April Fools' Day, he enjoyed learning (from History.com ) that the first day of the year used to be in spring and to him (and me too, actually) this concept makes more sense. For National Crayon Day, he tore wrappers off crayons until he realized we already had unwrapped, previously recycled crayons.  With the recycled crayons, he made melted crayon rocks .  This activity was a hit!  He did it twice and prominently placed the rocks near the future locations of his seedlings.  The melted crayon activity resides at Fakin' It and the instructions alone are a good read, even if you have no intention of completing the activity.  So, please do tru

(Updated 3.10.23) Let's get ready to march into March in 2020 with these engaging learning activities for your learners.  Even if you don't lead littles in any capacity, I bet you'll find one (or two) ways to celebrate on this calendar. If you're ready to download and move on to planning March activities, don't let us stop you. We're here to help! Please, click here now . Above is merely a graphic.  Please click here for your very own calendar. If, however, you're a little more cautious and need more information before committing to a click, I hear you! Read on, dear friends, read on! What is this Idea for Every Day Calendar anyway?   It's exactly that, leaders: we've come up with a reason to celebrate every day with your learners and paired each one with academic activities. We've even taken the liberty to suggest some weekend activities because leaders deserve to have fun too! So, get out your planner and write in one (or two