Feb

11

Monday Inspiration: Obscure History

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February 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment

You know I went through high school in Texas, including an entire year of Texas Historya nd enver learned about the Republic of Texas Navy, or the Republic of Texas Marine Corps.
Marc is a leaner in the Royal Rangers program and he is getting involved in historic reenactment.  He was away this weekend at seminars […]

Jan

18

Historical Fiction For Boys: Gary Paulsen

Posted by Marye

January 18, 2008 | 1 Comment

Historical fiction is super easy to find if you don’t care that the main character is a girl. In fact, much of the time every main character is a girl! With five boys, sexist or not, I know one thing. Boys like male main characters.
Gary Paulsen writes for boys. Maybe he writes for girls too, […]

Jan

10

Caddie Woodlawn: The Other Pioneer Girl

Posted by Marye

January 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment

If you are doing a history study of the mid 1800s you pretty much are required to read Caddie Woodlawn right along with Little House on the Prairie! I laughed, I cried, she moved me, Bob.
Caddie Woodlawn is based on a real person, just as Laura is. Caddie was born into a family with […]

Jan

9

Free History Online

Posted by Marye

January 9, 2008 | 2 Comments

 
I am fascinated with all of the free materials available online, as you probably have guessed over the past week or so.
I am still running behind by about a week getting my spring school stuff off the ground - I will blame it on Marc and his surgery yesterday- but I am planing on making […]

Nov

29

Making A Rose Window For History

Posted by Marye

November 29, 2007 | Leave a Comment

Image: St John the Divine Cathedral, New York
Eons ago, when the older kids were studying the middle ages we did lots and lots of projects. Maybe it has to do with having fewer children, or being younger, or just more enthusiastic..I don’ t do so many projects now. I need to get back […]

Sep

19

Talk Like A Pirate Day

Posted by Marye

September 19, 2007 | Leave a Comment

You know what day it is right? Talk like a pirate day. You know, there is alot of inspiration that can bring ot your homeschool experience.
Listen to the cd of Gilbert and Sullian’s Pirate’s of Penzance or better yet, get the dvd from Netflix. Try to find out why they wrote the way […]

Sep

18

Happy Birthday U.S. Air Force!

Posted by Marye

September 18, 2007 | Leave a Comment

Today’s holiday is the birthday of the United States Air Force. They take alot of flack from the other services, all in good fun of course.
On Sept. 18, 1947, W. Stuart Symington was sworn in as the first secretary of the Air Force. This branch would no longer be the Army Air Force but a […]

Sep

15

Saturday..Saturday..

Posted by Marye

September 15, 2007 | 1 Comment

This Saturday promises to be a refreshing bit of down time. Nothing much happening, the house is rather quirt this morning. The kids are enjoying a bit of liberty before we head over to a friends to help them with their shed.
The holiday for today is Granparent’s Day.
This is an especially poignant day […]

Aug

31

Little School On the Highway

Posted by Marye

August 31, 2007 | Leave a Comment

There are so many homeschool resources that you could never ever utilize everything you wanted to even if you taught your kids 24/7 until they turned 45. Seriously. Think about it…free curriculum, homeschool blogs, books, ideas, papers, magazines…all with great ideas..and so much of the time I feel like I should be doing everything..whew!
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