Category: geography
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Christmas in Iceland
I attempted to recreate Christmas in Iceland, and very quickly discovered I do not have the necessary baking skills. So this became a slightly less aggressive set of Homeschool Christmas and geography lesson, and instead focused a bit more on the spirit of the activity. Christmas in Iceland So, an Iceland tradition is to make…
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Gingerbread Man lesson
As part of our Christmas in Germany unit, we read The Gingerbread Man. There are so many great copies of this book you can find (I’m somewhat partial to the Jan Brett version), but for this particular unit, since we were studying Germany, I stuck with the original tale; besides, it made a great homeschool…
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California unit study
Well after many tries and travails we have finished our California unit study, and that means it’s time to share some more homeschool geography with you. We completed the California unit study twice, once when the kids were in preschool, and a second time when they were in 5th grade, so I’m including both versions…
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Washington state unit
When I was in third grade, my school got Weekly Reader newspapers. They were small papers with a theme, one week the theme was Mount Saint Helens and the great volcanic eruption. Somehow, in my head, Mount Saint Helens had just erupted. In reality, Mount Saint Helens erupted several years earlier, and they were reporting…
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Kansas Unit
Hi, Future Ticia 2025 here, well actually current day because I’m rescheduling this to 2025. I wrote this way back in February 24, 2011, and things have changed just a little bit. Like when I first wrote this Kansas Unit we didn’t even link to the books, so it was just name a book title…