Our current nature study ~TREES~ is inspired by the many sticks and leaves my children pick up every time we walk a nature trail. We’ll be reading these books about trees around the world in addition to the larger stack about the science of trees and the fascinating ways they communicate. This post may contain Amazon […]
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Earth Day has become a global celebration of community efforts to clean up our environment and live in a cleaner way. The beginnings of this environmental movement is usually attributed to American Rachel Carson. One of my favorite things to do is to make science connections in our geography and world studies lessons. There are
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This is one of my favorite times of the year! I grew up near Washington, D.C. where the Cherry Blossom Festival is celebrated for a whole month. This year, as the cherry blossoms began to open up on the cherry trees in our yard, we read these cherry blossom books. One of our favorite aspects
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All the Irish people I know are super proud of their Irish heritage. So it was surprising when my friend recently found out that she has Irish heritage! Her grandmother had hidden that fact from the family. We had lots of interesting thoughts and comments about discrimination, race and assimilation. Naturally, I then wanted to
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What do you remember about Columbus from your own social studies classes? Take an honest look at the real story with these Christopher Columbus books.
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The Backstory In most Asian countries, Mid-Autumn festival is celebrated by eating mooncakes. There are a few different styles of mooncakes, and the most common one is the Cantonese style that is stamped with a beautiful design. This year, we learned how to make mooncakes! The Mid-Autumn festival is celebrated in most Asian countries at
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