About a week ago I shared my strategies for homeschooling with a newborn. One of the strategies was to use unit studies. For the next month or two, all my kids will be participating in an Ancient Art and the Orchestra unit study. In order to make planning easy for me, I am using Harmony […]
Jim Hodges Audio Books
My family loves to use living books instead of textbooks for the main part of our curriculum. Currently our entire history and literature program is comprised of a huge list of chapter and picture books. Sometimes this momma needs some help getting through the stack of read-alouds and readers. That’s where audio books can help. […]
History Studies: Making Unleavened Bread
This week in our Mystery of History studies we read about Moses and the Exodus out of Egypt. It was a story we have read many time in our Bible, but this week through some historical fiction and other activities, we were able to gain a deeper appreciation of this Biblical event. The first book […]
Educational Games: Ancient Egypt and Military Jets Card Games
We have been studying ancient history this year and have just finished learning about Ancient Egypt via living books, Mystery of History, and crafts. I’m always on the look-out for good supplemental materials for our studies–especially fun, hands-on type things. When I saw the Ancient Egypt Card Game from BirdCage Press, I was very interested […]
Ancient History: Eygpt and the Minoans
We have now completed one month of Illuminations by Bright Ideas Press (I’ll have a detailed review up next month). Using Mystery of History Vol.1, we learned about Early Egypt, Stonehenge, and the Minoan Civilization this past week. Our read-aloud book for the past couple of weeks has been The Golden Goblet. I am a […]
