I think, and I could be wrong, my parents visited Belgium once when I was a kid. If I'm recalling this story correctly, they went to go visit one of my Dad's friends, and my grandparents stayed with my brother and me. The only story I remember from that trip had something to do … [Read more...]
Cyprus Unit
Cyprus! About all I knew about the country before our Cyprus unit was Silas from the Bible was from there. Actually, let me go double-check that because I might be thinking of a different person. Oops, wrong person, it was Barnabas. I still don't know super a lot about Cyprus, … [Read more...]
Lithuania unit
Surprise, surprise, my library had pretty much nothing about Lithuania. I've discovered that most of the smaller European countries are hard to find information on. I can find some facts and a few videos, but I really miss the books we were able to find for some of the more … [Read more...]
Learn all about Albania!
The most amusing fact I found for Albania had to do with Mother Teresa. Did you know Mother Teresa was born in Albania? It's true, but since she was born the lines of Europe have been redrawn a few times, and her birthplace has moved into a few different countries over the many … [Read more...]
Russia booklist
We started our study of Russia because we'd been studying Italy and reading about Strega Nona and my kids wanted to know how Baba Yaga would match up against her. All of the Strega Nona books we read were by Tomi DePaola and so she was fairly nice in those. Baba Yaga isn't … [Read more...]
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