We are once again diving into the history of Halloween! And this year, we found another significant event that occurred on October 31: Reformation Day.
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Never did I ever…think I’d become a baseball mom! But I have three who are in the sport and I do what I do best: support them with books! Here is a pretty long list of inspirational and diverse baseball biographies in picture book form. I know there are even more out there! This post
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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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Looking back at my Medieval Books post at the beginning of the year, I’m pretty pleased that we made it through most of them! Here are the books about Medieval Europe that we did as read-alouds or audiobooks, for my kids aged 7 through 12. Of course, I continued to find more books and add
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It’s finally here, after two years! This 3-week country study narrows down the best kids books on Japan that highlight specific aspects of Japanese culture.
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Cycling back around to Vikings! This time, we read books about Vikings as they fit into European Medieval history.
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We dove into Ancient China with books about science, history, art, food, music, and folklore. Check out this huge booklist!!
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These books about Alaska inspired our homeschool for the month of January. We used them as jumping off points to explore science and art.
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We had so much fun with these books and an activity. Trying our hand at gold leafing really made us feel like monks making medieval manuscript illuminations.
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