Teaching your children about their family military service is an important aspect of teaching your children family history to help instill a sense of family pride. Family military service helps to foster a sense of patriotism in your children. They realize that military service members are people who leave families
I have always been fascinated with other cultures and countries, but teaching geography isn’t the most exciting thing on my list. Travel? That’s another story. When we can’t travel to learn about new places, we learn the geography of places we are talking about in history. In years past
This week was fairly productive! I think it is due to the fact that I’ve realized some things. 1. We will never be an early schooling family. My kids wake up between 8-8:30 whether I set an alarm for them or not, and the 7:30 alarm was a fruitless
We’re going to study my very favorite period in history this fall: The Middle Ages. When my big kids were little, we did a similar study using Konos Curriculum. We read books, drew pictures, made projects, and thoroughly enjoyed every bit of it. I look forward to this year being very similar to that year (1999).
As I’m preparing for our first year using Diana Waring’s History Revealed! Romans, Reformers, and Revolutionaries curriculum, I am enjoying revisiting some old favorites, as well as discovering some new ones, and I want to share them with you.