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. [...]

The Roaring 20′s led way to the Great Depression of the 30′s.  Such a stark difference from one decade to the other. When we went through our first four-year cycle of history using The Story of the World as our main spine, I have to admit that we glossed over modern American history at the [...]

WWI has been richly covered and lots of wonderful projects sit in our notebooks to prove it.  The School History site was invaluable for me during this unit!!  You can see some of the activities we chose to use from School History below. This map shows the allies at the beginning of the war. This [...]

Lots of people over time have asked where I find ideas for the project choices I give my children.  At this point, most of the ideas are dreamed up in my head, but it hasn’t always been that way.  Some of the books I use include: Better Than Book Reports is book is full of [...]