We had a fun second year of our book club for middle schoolers (although we only had two middle schoolers)! Here are all the ideas, links and discussion guides that we used for our meetings! This post may contain Amazon Affiliate Links. I may earn a few cents on qualifying purchases. Thanks in advance for helping […]
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Poetry, but make it fun! Here are the best books about poetry that we read in the past year. Bit by bit, my kids were inspired to write their own! This post may contain Amazon Affiliate Links. I may earn a few cents on qualifying purchases. Thanks in advance for helping with the costs of running
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Here’s our family’s My Father’s World review of Rome to the Reformation, which covers the Middle Ages. It can be used for a range of kids from 2nd to 8th grade.
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This is a review of AmblesideOnline Year 2, which focuses on books about medieval times. I read these aloud to my 7 and 9 year old kids this year.
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At the end of our school year this year, I did a thing. I decided to make a book stack of all of the chapter books we had read in the past 12 months, from July 2024 to June 2025. Ta-da! Our living books stack! I actually wish I had gotten a picture with the
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AmblesideOnline Year 7 focuses on the Middle Ages in literature and history. I’ll start there and then move on to the other subjects.
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American doll books are such a great way to learn about American history! My favorite American Girl books are the historical characters where each American Girl has a set of six books. There is almost always a historical note at the end of each book, and some even have a companion book for more historical
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We are still chugging along with our state studies! This spring, we continued with a few more states: North and South Dakota, Texas, Arizona, Alaska, Hawaii, Washington, and Oregon. We’re just missing a few of the western states now! Here is the Historical Fiction United States bookstack! This post may contain Amazon Affiliate Links. I may
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I wanted to spend some more focused time on the Italian Renaissance. We used the summer months to read these few chapter books and revisit my country study on Italy! Here are the Renaissance books we read and the art we looked at. This post may contain Amazon Affiliate Links. I may earn a few cents
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Now we get to the pre-Columbian societies in Central and South America. Here are the chapter books about Aztecs, Maya, and Incas. The chapter book selection was slim pickings! We mainly studied these civilizations using picture books. You’ll see that I pulled a lot of fun chapter books with themes relating to the Mayan, Aztec,
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