As we look back upon the year 2017 And crank up our brains with a cup of caffeine. It’s time to wrap up the scenes that we’ve seen From January to December, and all the months in between. January found us in a state of despair As we rushed to finish Stephen’s Challenge B Science […]
Magic Tree House & Imagination Station Book List: U.S. History
During the early elementary years (1st to 3rd grade) our children have naturally gravitated towards the Magic Tree House and Imagination Station series. Our children have enjoyed these books even more than the Who Was… series. [Note that Magic Tree House is a secular series; Imagination Station is written from a Christian worldview.] I cannot […]
U.S. History Book List: Who Was… What Was… Where Was…
For a number of years, I’ve stored several book lists in my Amazon astore for quick & easy reference. Because Amazon recently discontinued the outdated astore feature, I’ve been transferring those lists onto our website. The first of these lists is the popular Who Was… What Was… and Where Was… books written for early independent […]
Script-n-Scribe Americana: American Art and Poetry Study through Copywork
Nature’s first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf’s a flower; But only so an hour. Then leaf subsides to leaf. So Eden sank to grief, So dawn goes down to day. Nothing gold can stay. -Robert Frost Every autumn and spring as I behold the beauty of the changing seasons, […]
On the Lewis & Clark Trail: Finding the Falls
Last year we embarked on a journey westward… …and found ourselves walking in the footsteps of Lewis & Clark at various points along our trek across the U.S. Our first stop was the Gateway Arch in St Louis, which marks the beginning of the famous trail. Later in Iowa we stumbled across the Lewis & […]
The War of 1812: The story of two unlikely heroes
It’s a little-known story about the War of 1812. The heroes? Two daughters of a lighthouse keeper along the coast of Massachusetts. While away on a short trip, their father Simeon Bates left his two daughters in charge of the Scitutate Lighthouse that overlooks the coast at Scituate harbor. Only months before, the most powerful […]
It’s Time for… Challenge Timelines!
I’ve mentioned before my ridiculous enthusiasm for keeping up with a timeline to document our homeschool learning adventures. Well, imagine my excitement when we found ourselves in the midst of timeline activities in our Classical Conversations Challenge B and Challenge I classes this year! Boy howdy! I just love this sort of stuff! (Keeping a […]
Memory Work Tracking Charts
Just wanted to take a moment to share some progress charts we’ve used for our children as a way to track and record the number of times they’ve practiced memory work or English grammar charts. These New-World-Explorers-themed charts include compasses with directional arrows that may be colored in each time they practice a week’s memory […]
Treading on Boston’s Freedom Trail
Where is Griffin’s Wharf? You know… the site of the Boston Tea Party? Upon our trip to Boston, I didn’t realize how much of American Revolutionary War history I did not understand. It wasn’t until I stumbled upon some historical maps that it became clear that comparing maps of Boston then and now would clarify […]