Sometimes homeschool history lessons are an excuse to get some energy out. That's certainly true with the first Olympics lesson we did the other day. Okay, I pretty much am just putting this in here because the picture cracks me up. Batman and I went to dinner on … [Read more...]
What can you learn at the Renaissance Festival?
What would a year in our family be without Rennaissance Festival pictures? And the cool stuff we learned there? It's a sneaky way to get some homeschool history leson in, and see some cool sword fights. And the kids as always were super excited to sleep in a hotel. I’m … [Read more...]
How to Mummify a chicken
Or as my husband likes to call it, the undead chicken. My family has a weird sense of humor. But, in all seriousness, as I update this post 5 years later, this has made for one of our most memorable homeschool history lessons. When we cover Mystery of History 1 again, I plan … [Read more...]
Battle of Jericho
I made the mistake of telling my kids that in a few days we’d be building the city of Jericho as part of our homeschool history lessons and then destroying it (I'd never do this as a Sunday School lesson because too much chaos for our class of 30). As you can imagine, that … [Read more...]
Cookie Cutter stamping with Westward expansion picture book
Future Ticia here, years ago I found an amazing book called Wheat Doll, it's a great story about some pioneers living in Utah during the time of Westward Expansion of US history. The kids and I thoroughly enjoyed Wheat doll, and made three crafts with it. I'll go into the most … [Read more...]