Preserve, Protect, and Defend

Holidays, Social Studies

Next week we celebrate Presidents’ Day. Always the third Monday in February, the day was originally marked to celebrate the birthday of our first President, George Washington (who was born on February 22, 1732). With Abraham Lincoln’s birthday also in February (the...

Love is in the Air

Holidays

While the origins of Valentine’s Day are a bit murky, the “holiday” provides us with an entire month to teach about love–God’s love for us and how we should love Him and others. Love in the Bible Love is one attribute of God. Students of all ages can learn about...

The Season of Anticipation

Encouragement, Holidays, Mothers

by Katie Julius I’m sure we all have memories as children of the great anticipation of Christmas morning. We carefully crafted our wish list, helped our parents decorate our homes, baked cookies with families, and excitedly performed in the choir at Christmas Eve...

Tied to Tradition

Encouragement, Holidays

by Katie Julius I’m big on traditions. It could be because my parents established strong holiday traditions for us each year. It could be because I want my daughter to have memories of our holiday traditions that she can pass along to her children someday. However,...

Christmas School

Curriculum, Holidays

by Becky Slamer Christmas can carry so many varying and extreme emotions. Those emotions can range from excitement to stress to sadness to delight to awe. For some, the decorating, the parties, the baking, the gift giving, the lights, all the traditions, and all the...

Mother’s Day Redeemed

Babies & Toddlers, Family, Holidays, Mothers

by Karen D. Koch In the spring of 2001, I was eagerly expecting a much-desired third child. I had longed for this ever since our second son, Mason, was 18 months old. Now he was three, and I was thrilled with an unexpected pregnancy. My husband had been content with...