The original pin: a cute and simple recipe to celebrate our study of mummies and King Tut. Only three ingredients? Now THIS is my kind of cooking project! …or so I thought… My mummies did not look so cute. They lost their eyeballs and were coming out of their wrappings – something akin to a genuine […]
Free Grammarland Unit Study
When I printed out Grammar Land: Or Grammar In Fun for the Children of Schoolroom-Shire, by M. L. Nesbitt, I didn’t realize how passionately my 2nd grader would tackle it. It is advanced for a 2nd grader (he reads at about a 6th grade level), but he really enjoyed reading it and found it humorous even though […]
Tabletop Geography
With the purchase of a clear vinyl tablecloth – and the printing, cutting and taping of a few of National Geographic’s Tabletop Maps – we now enjoy extended geography lessons at the dinner table. I think we are finally able to identify all the countries in Africa now, which is great for having this in […]
The Ship that Won the War
Three excited boys prepare to tour the LST-325 in the Cumberland River, Clarksville, TN. The LST-325 – a Landing Ship Tank, or amphibious vessel (I knew we’d get our memory work in there somehow! Ha!). This is the largest ship ever designed to place tanks, troops and cargo onto a hostile beach and then retract […]
Paper Models
For those who remember our days of putting together little bitty paper toys related to world history studies and more days of putting together little bitty paper toys (to build America City)… and more and more days of putting together little bitty paper toys (to make Bethlehem Village for Christmas and the empty tomb for Easter), […]
Mom-of-the-year… NOT!!!
My apologies to those who follow on Facebook… But some things just have to be said more than once. Like that whole story about how I’m not a perfect mom… A mom that does NOT strive to win the gourmet-cook-of-the-year award. It is TRUE. FOR REAL. So… this week, I recount a few of my best BE […]
Free Ancient Rome Lapbook with Study Guide
Homeschoolshare is one of our favorite places to find lapbook and unit studies for our homeschool. Check out this Ancient Rome Lapbook with Study Guide!
Our Essentials Student Notebook
We’ve made a few simple updates to our Essentials student practice notebook, and… it’s working! I thought I’d share what we’re doing in case others may find it useful… (or muse that it’s taken me this long to figure out something so simple…) All of the reference master charts are in page protectors (for durability) […]
Ancient Greece, Celery, and Cells!
This week we had a lapbook factory underway as the boys put together an Ancient Greece Lapbook using Homeschoolshare’s Free Ancient Greece Lapbook along with Tina’s Dynamic Homeschool’s Greece Lapbook Pieces. This dove deeper into details about the 7 Wonders of the Ancient World, Famous Greeks, the Trojan Horse, Homer & The Odyssey and Illiad, Alexander the […]