Adventures of a Catholic homeschooling family in Alaska.
Today for the Virtual Curriculum Fair for homeschoolers, we are sharing about Exploring Our World: Social Studies and more Science. This theme can include history, geography, world cultures, worldview, biology, botany, geology, etc., etc., etc. Last year I shared about our approach to these subjects in Learning About The World Around Us. As is [Read On]
History is one subject that I’ve thoroughly enjoyed learning more about alongside the boys over the past few years. One component that I felt I had little knowledge of from my youth is the related subject of geography. So I am constantly striving to include geography in our social studies for the boys. Knowledge Quest [Read On]
Over the past few years, we have had the opportunity (and pleasure) of reviewing a few of the products from Bright Ideas Press. And, each has been received well in our home. To say I was elated to be one of the Crewmates reviewing their new WonderMaps would be an understatement. I’d heard a little [Read On]
This past week, we got a call from the homeschool rep at our charter school. The Geography Bee was set to happen, but they didn’t have their minimum number of students (6) to hold it. One of the students signed up actually won at the state level last year and really wanted to have one [Read On]
As we await the beginning of vendor shipments, everyone on the Crew has been given the opportunity to review a TOS e-book. Some of us had a hard time picking one from the two choices. So, instead, we opted to do BOTH! Below is the review for the first product: Like other Schoolhouse Planner modules, [Read On]
If there is one thing this frugal homeschooling mama loves, it is a product with multiple uses with the entire family over several years. That’s exactly what you get with the new map sets from Homeschool in the Woods. For this review, Amy Pack sent us both the Olde World Style Modern and Ancient Maps: [Read On]
Timelines of all sorts seem to snake their way into many homeschool curriculums. The boys have embraced this with mixed results. They enjoy seeing a timeline once completed, but they do not always enjoy making them. As part of the TOS Crew, I was sent Bible Timeline from Bible Charts and Maps to use in [Read On]
This past year, I was blessed with the opportunity to review the new Homeschooling ABCs class that Terri at Knowledge Quest put together. Like many, I entered my time as a homeschool mother full of questions and read countless books from the library as well as internet sites trying to get the ‘big picture’. Terri’s [Read On]
There are certain subjects that seem to be glossed over in schools these days and geography is one of them. While I can not claim to remember all the geography I might have learned growing up, I can usually figure out which state is which when looking at an unlabeled map of the United States. [Read On]
This year, R is getting a double dose of social studies. In co-op, we are studying from Julius Caesar through the Middle Ages. The lesson plans we use, Catholic Heritage Curricula, has third graders studying 9 different countries through the year. While the lesson plans are fantastic, I have not used them too much since [Read On]
