Tucked away in downtown Maysville, KY, overlooking the Ohio River is the National Underground Railroad Museum.  My children had the pleasure of touring the museum located in the Bierbower House, which was a safe house for runaway slaves.  Crawling through an underground tunnel that opened into a small room of four beds, runaway slaves could [...]

I haven’t been this excited about a curriculum in ages!  In fact, I’m almost turning flips knowing that history is taken care of next year and I have no unit planning to do. “I truly have never seen a curriculum like this before, especially for the 6th grade and above crowd.  Hands down, it tops [...]

ALL planned unit studies for the 2009-10 school year are finished!  To wrap up the school year by the end of April, we’ll be completing plans and texts for all of our other subjects and adding in a few fun writing, science and art lessons.  While the kids work, I’ll begin the process of putting [...]

I hate to admit that our study of the 50′s and 60′s was a bit more boring than the 20th century thus far.  It’s partly because the gusto of school is waning as we see the end in sight, and partly because we covered most of this previously when we vacationed in Alabama last November. [...]

World War II was yet another touching unit in our household.  We have grown to love history SO much through the use of living literature, good informational texts and projects.  History was something I yawned over year after year in high school and college.  I couldn’t imagine EVER liking it!  It’s been a refreshing journey [...]