Category: reading and writing

  • Gingerbread Man lesson

    Gingerbread Man lesson

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    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…

  • Kansas Unit

    Kansas Unit

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    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…

  • Uncle Tom’s Cabin book club

    Uncle Tom’s Cabin book club

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    Supposedly, shortly after the Civil War starte,d President Lincoln met with Harriet Beecher Stowe and joked, “So, you’re the little lady who started this war.” Now, historians say that probably didn’t happen, but that book did inspire large portions of the abolitionist movement and sold like crazy during the mid-nineteenth century. This was an interesting…

  • 50 State Study: New York

    50 State Study: New York

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    I was going to write about when we studied New York in high school where we did our quick blitz of a geography lesson as we ran through United States Geography, and I realized I had written about this way back when the kids were tiny all the way back in 2011, so as I…

  • Beauty and the Beast

    Beauty and the Beast

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    My absolute favorite fairy tale is Beauty and the Beast. I was at the perfect age for the Disney Renaissance and when Disney’s Beauty and the Beast came out, I had so many friends excitedly tell me I was totally Belle. Over the years I’ve collected several Beauty and the Beast picture books and Beauty…