Can I just say that a few weeks ago when we got back into our history lesson lessons I was incredibly excited? I 've been eagerly looking forward to digging into all of the fun of the Renaissance and Reformation, and we kicked this year off with a bang with the War of the Roses … [Read more...]
Rome to Reformation history lessons
You know what is a fascinating time period? The middle ages. The time from the early Roman Empire to the start of the Reformation have so many fun hands-on history lessons you can go through. So let's call this Rome to Reformation history lessons. Mainly because I like how that … [Read more...]
Jousting Activity for King Arthur Unit
Last week I showed your our knight’s shields we made as part of our King Arthur study, now you get to see how we used the shields: a super fun Jousting activity for homeschool history. I’ll warn you this is super messy, and you need to wear clothes you can ruin (though I will … [Read more...]
How to make a knight’s shield
Over the next couple of weeks I’m getting together with Erin over at The Usual Mayhem to share our King Arthur units. This is a fun bit of homeschool history we briefly covered last year, but I check out two million books from the library, to have some more fun with it over the … [Read more...]
Joan of Arc unit
Last year as we studied the Mystery of History 2* in our homeschool history we learned about Joan of Arc, but at the time we were in “get the school year done mode,” and didn’t really create a Joan of Arc unit to learn more about her. But, this fall we studied France, and I made … [Read more...]