This edition of the Carnival of Homeschooling is being hosted at Heart of the Matter. Perhaps the venue got everyone excited, as there are dozens of posts in this edition! Check it out here.
Don’t despise the small things
September 27, 2009 by ·
I haven’t posted in a couple of weeks because I haven’t had much to post about. It isn’t all hands on fun around here. Far from it! The last two weeks have been all about the same ‘ol stuff. Reading. Writing. Arithmetic. More Reading. The children sometimes find this work tedious, and wonder why […]
Viking Feast
September 10, 2009 by ·
Beef stew, rye bread with butter, non-alcoholic mead, and soft cheese. No feast has been more highly anticipated in our home than the Viking Feast. My husband can trace his Norwegian heritage all the way back to Harald Hardrade, the Norwegian King who was killed in 1066 in the Battle of Stamford Bridge….and beyond. My […]
Viking Hnefetafl
September 8, 2009 by ·
One of our favorite activities while studying the Vikings was playing the game of Hnefetafl (pronounced Nef-uh-tah-full). Hnefetafl is a strategy game like chess, though much simpler to play. It simulates a Viking raid, with attackers trying to capture the King and defenders trying to protect him. We made the game board years ago, […]
Cookie Dough Maps, Take Two
September 7, 2009 by ·
Can you find the marshmallow glacier in this picture? Ever since we started school a few weeks ago the kids have been asking about when we’ll make Cookie Dough Maps. I tried this last year when we studied ancient Egypt, as an alternative to the “Let’s-keep-it-forever-mom!” salt dough maps. Little did I know I was […]
Roman Mosaic Stepping Stones
August 26, 2009 by ·
We have been wanting to make stepping stones for our bird garden all summer! As we finish up our study of the Romans, it seemed like a perfect opportunity to “kill two birds with one stone” (shh! Don’t tell my bird-loving boys that I used that phrase! They prefer to say “hatch two birds […]
Cookie Dough Maps, Take Two
August 14, 2009 by ·
Ever since we started school a few weeks ago the kids have been asking about when we’ll make Cookie Dough Maps. I tried this last year when we studied ancient Egypt, as an alternative to the “Let’s-keep-it-forever-mom!” salt dough maps. Little did I know I was starting a tradition. A tradition that is not, let’s […]
Roman Feast
August 13, 2009 by ·
We kicked off our back-to-school hands on projects with a Roman Feast this week. We ended the school year studying Ancient Rome and picked up where we left off with a look at how the Roman Empire fell. Things are crazy busy right now, so I wanted to keep this feast simple. I managed […]
You Know You’re a Homeschooler When….
August 10, 2009 by ·
Your kids and their friends try to light sparklers from flint and steel…. and eventually they succeed!
Getting Organized for a New Year
August 10, 2009 by ·
It’s that time again! We’ve started back to school. Have you? We’ve left the Ancients behind, and have moved on to the Middle Ages. New books, new projects, new feasts await. But first, I always have to get organized. One of the most important things, for me, is to get my history and science […]
