This year something fortuitous has happened. Advent begins on December 1, and that is a much more tidy day than it has been in many years past. Advent ends on December 24. Therefore, in the year of 2024, Advent takes place during the first 24 days of December. I think that is special Many years…
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Titles Selected for the Jacki Kellum Free Family Online Book Looking at Lit – 12 Months of Great Family Books
Following is a list of the 2024-2025 Book Selections for the Jacki Kellum Free Family Online Book Club: Looking at Lit: June 2024 – The Secret Garden Secret Garden Free Text Online at Gutenberg Project The Secret Garden Illustrated by Inga Moore Available for Purchase at Amazon Where the Wild Things Are Available for Purchase…
The Secret Garden is the First Novel for Jacki Kellum’s Free Online Book Club – Beginning for the Family in June
The Secret Garden is the first novel we’ll read together in the Free 2024 Looking at Lit Book Club. Each day, I’ll share a chapter from the Free text of The Secret Garden, which is available at Project Gutenberg. If you want to buy the book, I suggest the beautiful edition of the book illustrated…
Advent Day 3 – The Terrible Lie – A Bible Story and Some Activities for the Family
Activities for Advent Day 3 Let’s Draw and Shade an Apple: God told Adam and Eve not to eat the fruit of one tree, but the snake tempted Eve, and she sinned. Adam followed. Most people think that the fruit they ate was an apple. Let’s Create an Apple Design Our story today does not…
Advent Day 2 – In the Beginning – A Bible Story and Some Activities for the Family
Day 2 – December 4, 2023 In the beginning, God created everything in our world, but He created it one step at a time. He created the world out of empty nothingness. First, He added light. He didn’t create the sun and the stars or night and day on the first day, but he created…
Advent Is A Season of Light -Disney’s I See the Light Is My Anthem of Advent
For me, Advent is also a time of music, and nothing says Christmas better than music. I’m not only talking about Christmas music. Advent is a time for the family to come and wait together for Christmas when Christians celebrate–yet again– the birth of Jesus. While it would be lovely to share some gorgeous adult…
In Genesis, We Are Told that God Created the World — What Does that Say about God?
Last year, in honor of the publication of my debut picture book, The Donkey’s Song, I launched an Advent program that I hope to enlarge every year. Very briefly, Advent is a way of preparing for Christmas–one day at a time–and it begins on the fourth Sunday before Christmas. People celebrate Advent in several ways….
Picture Writing – How Jacki Kellum Wrote Her Debut Picture Book The Donkey’s Song
I am a painter, as well as a writer, and perhaps that is why I mentally “see” what I am writing before I begin to write. For years I have heard that children are either visual learners or verbal learners. I am both, but I am probably more visual than I am verbal. I Call…
How to Create a Reading Journal on Your Blog – Free Tags for You to Use on Your Blog Posts
In this post, I am showing you how I used my blog to share my #ReadtoWrite journal on my WordPress Blog, using the following free-to-copy and use tags. This charts my reading on December 26, 2022: Pastoral Day – William Hamilton Gibson – pages 19-26. Sharp Eyes: A Rambler’s Calendar – Gibson – pages 248-252….
A Free Journal to Track Your Reading for #ReadtoWrite
On January 1, I’m launching a free reading and writing event on all of my social media outlets. I would love for everyone to follow me on any or all of my social media accounts, but that is not necessary. Anyone may participate in the challenge event without following me on my social media accounts….