Littles Learning Link Up: December 26, 2017

I hope everyone had a very Merry Christmas!

 Each month you will find:

• A seasonal round-up (usually toward the beginning of the month)
• Posts where I share what I have been up to with my early elementary children (including occasional highlight posts where I share how we used ideas that have been linked up here on Littles Learning Link Up).

Each week, I will host a link up, where you can share either what you have been up to recently, or old posts that may go with the theme.  Feel free to link up more than one post.

Each week I will continue to feature a couple of posts from those that have been linked up. 

I hope you will continue to share your wonderful posts, and I hope you will find something new to try with your child(ren).

It would be great for everyone to stop by and visit the other linked-up posts as well. Check them out, leave some comments, pin those that interest you. Let's make this a real party and socialize with each other.

What have we been up to?

We didn't do as much last week as I would have liked. However, we did use our "mommy's busy" routine to ensure some schooling was done. They got math, spelling, and exercise in, as well as getting caught up with some of their work. They also had a good time learning more about God from Melk. This week we are taking off school completely, relaxing, cleaning & organizing, recharging for our next 6 weeks of school. 

Here's a look at all the fun things we did with Melk this last week of the Advent season. 

First, we took him with us to our church's Christmas program, A Night in Bethlehem where he learned some things about life in Bible times (along with us, of course).

He his candy canes to remind us we need to seek God.

We made CD sheep to remind us God is our Good Shepherd and he watches over His sheep.

We built a gingerbread house and were reminded to build our lives on a firm foundation.

We planned a camp out under the tree, enjoying the lights which remind us that Jesus is the light of the world.

He gave the children gifts, reminding us that God is a giver of good gifts and He gives to us whether we deserve it or not.

He read the book, The Candymaker's Gift in preparation of making candy cane cookies. Sadly we never got to them as we were behind in getting things done as I had been sick the day before and Tabitha was sick this day.

He was personally invited to our church's Christmas Eve Candlelight service by the leader of our Venture Club who remembered that Melk is nocturnal and loves doing all things Christmas related, especially when they glorify God.

Christmas morning he sat in the stable to remind us that we still needed to add the figures. We read the Christmas story from Luke and Matthew while the children added them.

I'll be sharing pictures of our Christmas celebration in this week's Wordless Wednesday post.

Let's take a look at that review schedule real quick:

I recently received Bonjour! Let's Learn French. That will be a review that will post on The Old Schoolhouse Magazine's website. Other than that, we have no current reviews.

Here are some things I would like to share with you:

Christmas has passed, and we are looking toward a new year yet again. If you are looking for some ideas for what to do with your children this New Year's Eve, I invite you to check out my Child-Friendly New Year's Eve Celebration Round Up. 

And seeing as winter started last week, I thought you might like some ideas revolving around snow. We've been getting some around these parts. We even had a white Christmas. How about you?

Fun With Snowmen Literature and Craft Round Up

Chock-Full of Fun Snowman Round Up

Now onto:

Littles Learning Link Up Features

On my last Littles Learning Link Up post, there were 12 wonderful posts linked up. I will be picking one randomly selected post to share, plus the top clicked-on post.

Please, don't forget to stop by other posts that are linked up. See what catches your eye, stop by, pin the post to a relevant board, and perhaps leave a comment to let the author of the blog know you have been by for a visit. I know I appreciate others commenting and letting me know they have read my posts, so I am sure others do too.

This week's randomly selected post is:

Jeniffer from Thou Shall Not Whine shared 5 Winter Activities To Do With the Kids.

And here is this week's top clicked on post.

Kelly from Our Everyday Harvest shared Holiday Craft Finds From the Dollar Store {Week 3: Foam Gingerbread Man}.

Join the Party!

I would love to have you join in this week! What sort of activities do you do with your young children? Do you have some favorite activities you would like to share? I invite you to link up below. I will be pinning posts on one of my relevant boards, and I would love to feature some of the activities each week from what is linked up.

Please know I may share a picture from your post and link back to it, along with sharing how we used your idea in our school time. By linking up you are giving me permission to use a picture from your post. I will ALWAYS give credit and link back. Additionally, if you choose to try out any of the ideas with your child, please make sure you give credit where credit is due.

Linky will be open through Monday night, to give me time to check out all the posts and get the Features organized. Please take the time to visit some of the other wonderful posts linked up.

No button currently, and there won't be one until I can figure it out seeing as Photobucket has changed things. Feel free to still share the picture in place of the button. Just link it to my Littles Learning Link Up permalink please.

I am sharing over at

An InLinkz Link-up

Throwback Thursday Blog-Style #183: December 21, 2017

Welcome back to... 

I know, I know, Throwback Thursday seems to be all about sharing pictures from the past, great memories that mean something to you, that you would like to share with others. At least that is how it appears to me. Throwback Thursday wasn't something I was participating in, and then I came up with an idea.

I thought it would be great fun and a help to my blog to share old content, but not just any old content. Each week I will share an old blog post from a previous year, any year, BUT it has to be from the current week (for example, something I've posted around December 21st, from any previous year)  I will go in, edit the post if needed, add a pinnable image if I don't already have one, and share it on Facebook.

Last year I focused solely on recipe posts for the posts I wanted to share, and the year before that, I shared past review posts. It was fun remembering some of the recipes and reviews I had forgotten about. This year I will be sharing random posts.

Would you like to join in? You do not need to edit your past post in any way, you don't need to create a pinnable image, though it couldn't hurt, in fact it will help your blog traffic to add quality pinnable images to your posts.

Just go into your archives, choose a favorite post from this current week from any previous year, and link it up below. (If you don't have anything from this current week, it is still okay to link up with a post from a previous year around this time. And if you haven't been blogging for a full year, feel free to share any earlier post.)

Please make sure to share from the past as instructed above if you would like your post to qualify for the Featured Post. Most weeks I find that there is a wonderful post, but I can't feature it because it is a current post, not from the past. I love reading the current posts, if you want to share them. However, I am not able to feature them, because the spirit of Throwback Thursday Blog-Style is to share posts from the past.
Thank you

I will be pinning posts to my appropriate Pinterest boards and will be randomly selecting a Featured Throwback Thursday post to share next week. Just a note, I will be sharing a picture from your post if you are selected as the featured post, but I will link back to your post. I will ALWAYS give credit and link back. By linking up you are giving me permission to use your picture in the post. 

Here are my Throwback Thursday posts:

Originally posted December 22, 2015
Littles Learning Link Up: Child-Friendly New Year's Eve Celebration Round Up

Here is this week's randomly selected

Featured Throwback Thursday:

Jeniffer from Thou Shall Not Whine shared 

5 Steps to a Smooth Sunday Morning and a Printable Checklist.

To participate, link up below. It would be great if you could visit several of the other posts that have linked up. Stop by, comment, and pin images so we can help each other.

No button currently, and there won't be one until I can figure it out seeing as Photobucket has changed things. Feel free to still share the picture in place of the button. Just link it to my Throwback Thursday Blog-Style permalink please.

Happy Throwback Thursday!

An InLinkz Link-up

Wordless Wednesday: December 20, 2017 (w/linky) : Putting Up the Christmas Tree

Looking forward to seeing your Wordless (or not so wordless) Wednesday posts this week.

No button currently, and there won't be one until I can figure it out seeing as Photobucket has changed things. Feel free to still share the picture in place of the button on your Wordless Wednesday post or in a list of Wordless Wednesday linkies. Just link it to my Wordless Wednesday permalink please.

An InLinkz Link-up