The Story in History

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When I launched this site on my birthday, I kicked it off by having a week of giveaways from some fantastic sponsors.  One of my prize sponsors was Heritage History, and one lucky winner received FOUR of Heritage History’s Compact Libraries! Teresa from Heritage History contacted me and asked if I would be

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Gathering Resources & Gearing Up

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It’s starting again. Our homeschool, that is!  We’ve had a month off, and as of this Monday the 3rd, we are beginning again.  I love taking an entire month off. It gives me such a great time to recharge just by NOT thinking about school!  Doing school in trimesters with a month

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Make History Come ALIVE!

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Of the workshops I was able to attend at the homeschool conference, Diana Waring’s was by far my favorite.  There were maybe a twenty of us, and went through all of the ins and outs of how her curriculum came to be written, and how it is put together, and used.  I

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Old Fashioned Education’s History Sequence

In deciding which remaining books we need to finish, and where we will begin next year, I put together a little chart of An Old Fashioned Education’s history scope & sequence. So many ‘classical’ ed families follow a 4 year history rotation. I believe teaching history chronologically is helpful, but definitely not the

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