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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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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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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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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I’m not saying “don’t read Little House on the Prairie.” But also check out these two books, rooted in history, and sharing Asian and Jewish perspectives.
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This is our second time going through a living US History Curriculum with picture books and experiences. I’ve learned so much from homeschooling this way for seven years now. Our First time The first time we went through US History, my twins were 7 years old and the littles were 3 and 4. We lived
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This year, we’ve been focused on American History, including the study of indigenous American tribes. Here are books about Thanksgiving in America, gleaned from various booklists on my blog. AND we’ve been continuing our country studies (currently central Africa), so finding the last book about harvest days around the world has been perfect! So…there are
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The Abenaki lived in present-day Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine, and northern Massachusetts. Here I have compiled the stories from three tribes of the Wabanaki Confederacy: the Abenaki, Passamaquoddy, and Penobscot. Wabanaki Confederacy in Maine “The Wabanaki Confederacy–the People of the First Light–comprises the Maliseet, Mi’kmaq, Abenaki, Passamaquoddy, and Penobscot nations. Our territories once covered present-day
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We dove into these stories from New England native american tribes of the Wampanoag and Narragansett peoples along with our study of Massachusetts and Rhode Island. According to Legends of America, the New England Algonquian tribes “include Mohegan, Pequot, Narragansett, Wampanoag, Massachusett, Nipmuc, Pennacook, Abenaki, Maliseet, and Passamaquoddy.” I will post books from the Algonquian
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