As I’ve mentioned many times, we went on a road trip in October. To read more about it you can click here. But, what I haven’t shown you yet is how we kept the kids entertained for 3500 miles. We don’t have DS’s or ipads or any other gaming device to take with us. When I first started planning this trip, I thought I would
Last term Farm Kid1 learned all 50 states and their capitals. I thought he would learn & remember them better if we focused only on 10 at a time. I designed worksheets and flashcards to help him learn all 50 in 5 weeks.
We’ve made it! We’re ready to learn the final 10 capitals!
Over half way done learning our State Capitals! As exciting as that is, it’s time to move on to Week 4.
Moving right along to Week 3’s State Capitals.
Continuing to learn our State Capitals, I introduced 10 more this week.
This year one of my goals was to have Farm Kid1 learn the names of all our 50 states, as well as their capitals. He already knew most of the states, but only knew that Salem was Oregon’s capital. I came up with a series of worksheets & flashcards so he could focus on 10 capitals per week. After 5 weeks he learned all 50
Recently we went on a road trip & a few of my ideas for keeping the kids busy in the car included cookie sheets from the Dollar Store & as many magnetic games/things I could reasonably bring with us. The Dollar Store had magnetic coins & bills! I thought, “what a great find,” and at a fabulous price. I wasn’t sure what I was going
As part of our Westward Movement Unit, we worked on Evan-Moor’s Moving West History Pockets. I was impressed with the variety explored in this book.
This post contains affiliate links. Back when I was home schooling, as part of our Farmer Boy unit, we made candles. In the book Almanzo talks about taking his lantern out to do chores and walk to his room at night. We discussed how they didn’t have electricity for lighting and instead used candles. We talked about how their method to make candles was different
