As with all our 1900’s studies, we continued the notebooking posters for each topic.

We also took a trip to the Cincinnati Museum Center where they house a Cincinnati History Museum, among others.  About half of their displays just happened to be on WWII!  I couldn’t believe it since we had originally visited it as a link to the Great Depression since the building, Union Terminal, was built during the Depression.

Below is the list of resources that have been in the sidebar.  I hope you find them useful!  This week we started into a study on the 50’s and 60’s!

WWII Resources

I hope you’ll forgive me for the length of this list. There are SO MANY wonderful books and such that are worth making a part of a WWII study. I just couldn’t help adding them all.

Websites

Kids Connect Links

Very Kid-Friendly Research Links

Mr. Donn’s Links and Lessons

Eclectic Homeschool Links

Easy Fun School Unit

NeoK12 Videos

Cyber Learning World’s Interactive Map

Scholastic’s Projects

One of her greatest passions is horses.  Her Papaw Bill has waited years to have a companion in the barn who loves horses as much as he does, and he’s finally found that partner in Mahayla.   They spend hours feeding, cleaning stalls, grooming horses and riding trails together.  She gets up before the crack of dawn every morning to help take care of the horses before her Papaw heads off to work.  They’re an equine pair, that’s for sure.

Papaw gave Mahayla a very special gift, indeed, for her 13th birthday – a new trail riding saddle.  The first picture shows her expression when she saw the saddle (Papaw Bill is in the background of the picture.)  And the second picture shows Eli taking over the saddle before Mahayla ever had a chance to look at it.    Now all we need is a little warm weather and I have a feeling the trails will be worn often.

Happy birthday, Mahayla!

We’re very blessed to go to a church that participates in the local food pantry mission.  Once every three months, our church is on duty and asks for volunteers to donate a couple of hours to man the operation.  My children look forward to this service opportunity so much!  From filling orders to stocking shelves, I just sit back and watch as they take the reigns when needy people come for food.  What a blessing for us, as well as the people who leave knowing their families will be well fed.

We’ve been so immersed in our 1900’s history studies, that Charles Russell took a bit of a back seat this month.  We did find the time to practice a little horse drawing, though.  Enjoy the resources below!

Charles Russell

About Charles Russell

Paintings We’re Studying

Innocent Allies

Doubtful Handshake

Drifters

Round-up on the Musselshell

Lesson Ideas

How to Draw a Horse

Drawing Horses

Robert Schumann

Learn and Listen
Classics for Kids

Wikipedia

If you’d like to read more about this program, please continue reading my review at The Curriculum Choice.

This picture has nothing to do with conifers, but I thought it was so beautiful that I wanted to post it.  There’ a sheet of ice gracefully laying over the flowing water from a dam – it was so cool to see in person!

Our Creation Club did a study on conifers last year that you might be interested in, too.  Otherwise, below are the main resources we used.

Books We Read

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 time.  For starters, Story of the World Volume 4 was much harder than my children were ready for at the time so it was easy to back off.  And, secondly, we were building a new house and getting settled in during that year, which made backing off of history even more enticing.

That being said, this is the “first time through” for a really in-depth look at the 20th century.  And, my, oh my, we’re enjoying it!  Wonderful books, movies, games, recipes and projects are making this study just fabulous.  I’ve been requiring more daily writing from the kids, too, in the form of mini-posters (aka notebooking pages.)  These mini-posters are solidifying their learning SO MUCH!  Here’s a look at a few of the notebooking pages from the 1920’s and the Great Depression.

We’ve also been keeping a timeline of many important and interesting events for each decade.  Before we dive into learning about each decade, I usually have them write out the timeline first, so they have a general picture in their mind of the things we’ll talk about.  Each decade’s timeline is made on a different colored piece of cardstock.  This happens to be the timeline for the 1930’s.

Below are the resources that have been in the sidebar.  Each one of the books/dvd’s was wonderful!

Websites

Mr. Donn’s American History

Education World Lessons

1930’s WebQuest

I’m still working on the WWII resources in the sidebar.  We’ve already jumped into the unit, but I’m still in the planning stages, so more resources will be added over the next day or two.

The problem – they aren’t quite ready for all this independence yet…

This is the start of a review I wrote at The Curriculum Choice.  Click here to read the entire review.