Moving West History Pockets
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.
Making Candles
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 …
Oregon Trail Heritage Garden
Since we are learning about the Oregon Trail, I thought it would be fun to check out The End of the Oregon Trail in Oregon City. Historically, this is an important spot. Pioneers traveling along the Oregon Trail ended their journey here – well kind of. Back in the days of the Oregon Trail the …
Lewis and Clark Interpretive Center
As part of our Moving West unit, we are learning about Lewis & Clark. We spent part of the weekend exploring the Lewis & Clark National & State Historical Parks in both Oregon & Washington. This is along the Pacific Ocean, the final destination of Lewis & Clark’s Expedition. At Cape Disappointment we toured the …
Solar Paper Silhouettes
This is the extreme version of making sun prints on construction paper. I walked passed this solar print paper at the store and decided to give it a try.
Why we Chose Vision Therapy
Vision therapy, mainly due to eye tracking problems, was a huge part of our first year homeschooling. In fact, it is connected to the reason we started homeschooling in the first place. In kindergarten & first grade, Farm Kid1 didn’t show any signs of being a struggling reader. So much so that in kindergarten he …
Biomes of the World: Deciduous Forest
Our final stop on our trip around the world was the deciduous forest of Europe. Wikipedia describes a deciduous forest as: forests that are dominated by trees that lose their leaves each year. They are found in areas with warm, moist summers and mild winters.
Continent Box – Europe
Our final continent box is full of all things European. Europe has so many different cultures & many got left out of our box. Hopefully I will continue to find fun things to add to this box.
Biomes of the World: Tundra
After visiting the great barrier reef on our trip around the world, we explored the tundra of Russia. I wasn’t feeling well the week before, so I didn’t have much in the way of extras for this week. But, it didn’t matter anyway. Farm Kid1 felt crummy all this week so we only did the …
Continent Box – Asia
Here’s a peek into the goodies in Asia’s box.