As we started back to school this week after taking December off, I’m feeling the push to “get something done”. It’s a trap we all fall into, this wanting to be able to have something to show for our time doing schoolwork. And it’s necessary. I sat down and wrote out lesson plans for the […]
5 Reasons Geography Should be Taught With History
I have always been fascinated with other cultures and countries, but teaching geography isn’t the most exciting thing on my list. Travel? That’s another story. I can’t make a Bucket List for travel because I want to go EVERYWHERE. For now though, we need to be content with studying other countries without leaving home. In […]
BiblioPlan Basics: Getting Started
Part of the fun of homeschooling is learning things we didn’t learn when we were in school. Or re-learning them because we don’t remember them. This year, I knew that I wanted to cover modern history with my kids. I remember bits and pieces of it from high school, but in 15 years of homeschooling […]
Exciting News!
You might remember a few weeks ago when I was asking for suggestions for history curriculum. My kids have some special needs and it has been a huge struggle to find that “just right” history curriculum. Either they were all textbooks, dull and dry, or they were so deeply literature based that we could never […]