Melissa | January 31, 2012
History: President Wilson and WWI
Because another Cycle 2 covers WWI more thoroughly (at least in my head), I really wanted to focus on the American involvement rather than the entire War.
Intro: Videos on the Lusitania and German attacks on U.S. Navy boats.
Lesson plan for older students (see Lesson Six)
Article on last survivor
Color countries involved [...]
Melissa | January 29, 2012
Because we have a rancher, our basement is huge. It’s also the only area in our house that we really share with my parents who live in an apartment in our house. When we first moved in, everyone claimed their corner. There’s Patrick’s office, a game area, Pops’ gym, and a couple kid areas. The [...]
Melissa | January 28, 2012
If you haven’t done so, I highly recommend reading whatever you read before your child came home again…after the fact. We’re in the middle of 7 weeks of homework for an upcoming training and I just reread a book that I’ve always believed in, The Connected Child: Bring hope and healing to your adoptive family. [...]
Melissa | January 24, 2012
One would think that having homeschooled children would mean less Valentine hassle. I did. Then I started counting how many we would need this year. Between preschool, Bible Study, Classical Conversations, and our field trip co-op party, I figured we’d need almost 100! For whatever reason, I’m adamantly against store bought cards, so I set [...]
Melissa | January 18, 2012
History: Immigration
ABC’s of Immigration Book (Appendix A and B)
Map of cities with high immigrant population (Appendix E)
Poem for memorization (Appendix E)
Melting Pot Exercise (Lesson 1)
Assessment here and here
Amazon.com Widgets
Science: Atoms and their parts
Christian Kids Explore Chemistry Lessons 6 through 8
There are many ways to model atoms. We’re going to do the cookie models [...]
Melissa | January 17, 2012
This recipe happened sort of by accident. I had intended to make meatballs in my crock pot but misjudged how long it would take. They turned into this.
Ingredients:
1 lb. ground beef
1 lb. chopped raw maple flavored bacon (You could probably cook it first if you wanted it crispy for texture.)
1/2 cup grated parmesan cheese
2 eggs
1/4 [...]
Melissa | January 16, 2012
Melissa | January 13, 2012
History: Teddy Roosevelt, Spanish American War
Intro: Multimedia website or video
I thought this would be a fun week to explore Spanish culture a little since it’s a part of American culture. Check out the Scholastic plans here or here.
Amazon.com Widgets
Science: Mixtures vs. Compounds
Lesson 5 and activity on Page 24 of Christian Kids Explore Chemistry.
There is [...]
Melissa | January 7, 2012
January’s Christianity Today ran an article, “Open Arm, Closed Doors” (pages 15-17) that is just one of a slew of recent publications to bring attention to the dramatic decrease in international adoptions over the past few years. Usually such articles briefly mention that slow downs are due to new regulations that aim to crack down on [...]
Melissa | January 7, 2012
I was recently asked, “How do you plan to create happiness for yourself in 2012?”
There are, of course, the cliche answers such as take time for myself, live in the moment, get my priorities straight, exercise more, tell corny jokes…you get the idea. But since I hate cliche answers, I kept thinking.
Then there was the [...]
