Even though we’re not doing a formal curriculum, I’ve been following the Classical approach to history. Which is basically following history in the order that it happened.
Right now we’re in Ancient Crete, about to move into Greece. The library didn’t have much, but the librarian suggested I take Ancient Greece!: 40 Hands-On Activities to Experience [...]
When Evan first started learning to read we did word lists and rhyming word book. He loved it, it was fun, and it helped. After a while though, it became a hindrance. He didn’t want to do the books, the lists of words bugged him, and he showed this by purposely reading simple things wrong [...]
So we just finished studying Mesopotamia (using Mosiac) and I thought it would be fun to try our first lapbook. Evan and I plooked at a few examples and he thought it was beyond neat and couldn’t wait. Here’s what we did:
This is the front of it. I found that graphic online at MrDonn.org OK, [...]
photo credit: eflon
We’re dome with week 5 of our so-called homeschooling, which means that next week we move from pre-history to the ancient world. It’s terribly exciting. There’s just something about being 5 and getting to read about dinosaurs and cavemen. Though not as exciting as going into the backward to find sticks and [...]
