In case you don’t know, Frankfort is the capital of Kentucky.  It’s also where I grew up and where my family still lives.  There is a wealth of field trip opportunity in Frankfort from government to history to museums and more.  We’ve been trying to make it a habit to go on a quick field [...]

This is the list that was in my sidebar as we worked through the slavery and Civil War unit.   There are several great resources that I didn’t want to forget for future reference.  I hope you find them useful as well.

African American Journey – Concise History of Slavery, Important Events, and Important Personalities
National [...]

Our last history unit of the year has been completed, and what a wonderfully rich unit it was!  I think I mentioned in a previous post that this study was mostly literature-based.  We chose really good books and learned about the life of slaves and struggles of the Civil War through the stories.  Between books, [...]

Wow.  We’re on our last planned history unit of the school year.  It feels great to be ahead of schedule!  (At least in history, anyway!)

I’ve sketched out the main topics I hope to cover in a unit on slavery and the Civil War.  I think we’ll plan to make this mostly a literature and writing [...]

Saturday was the 146th commemoration of the Battle at Perryville, a Civil War skirmish.  With our history cycle focusing on Early American History this year, we couldn’t pass up this fun-filled day.

Last week was busy with two other field trips, as well.  We went to an African Masks and Money Systems class at the Hopewell Museum where [...]