One of my favorite subjects to teach/learn with the kids is history. We have enjoyed Story of the World for a few years now, along with many classic stories from books like Little Stories of Famous American’s and 50 Famous People. This year, when TAN Homeschool emailed me about their new Catholic elementary history curriculum called […] Read more…
My oldest daughter LOVES history. She is a people person through and through and because history is the study of people and how they lived and what they did, she is all. over. it. Seriously. So all over it, that when we had the opportunity to review the (NEW!) Project Passport World History Study: Ancient Egypt from Home […] Read more…
Winter can get so boring north of the 45th parallel. Last week school was canceled more than once due to windchills of -20! We’ve been mostly stuck indoors for 4 months now with no end in sight. When that happens, it’s nice to have interesting things to listen to while playing. Our latest was a […] Read more…
Disclaimer: I received a copy of this curriculum in exchange for an honest review. History was one of those subjects that I intended to get to last year & just, well, didn’t. For this coming school year, I had planned to blow through 2 years of history in the winter term. Until I saw […] Read more…
Last year, I shared what curriculum & books we planned to use during Kindergarten. Though we took several months off school due to my health during this pregnancy, we got quite a lot accomplished. Luckily, I’m from a state that doesn’t require record keeping or a number of days :). Here is the curriculum that […] Read more…
We’ve been slowly working through school even though my energy level is starting to dwindle. We’ve kind of changed our focus from hardcore on multiple subjects and have switched into spring/summer mode of character, bible, reading, math plus one other subject combined with copious amounts of time outside now that the snow is FINALLY gone. […] Read more…
My daughter is in LOVE with search and find books. Finding Goldbug in Richard Scarry books? Yep. Where’s Waldo? I’m pretty sure we have them all, including 2 different editions of the original. We also have 1001 Things to Spot in the Sea (which is GREAT for learning number recognition of numbers 1-12, BTW). […] Read more…