One of the things I love about homeschooling is following the interests of my kids. I am really looking forward to the day when they “know what they want to be when they grow up” (or you know, at least an idea. I’m not even sure if I know what I want to be when…
Today I want to share the second best way to teach your children geography.I think I know what you are thinking right now, why in the world would she tell us about the second best way to teach geography? What is the first?!So, let’s chat about the first and then we’ll get on to the second.In my opinion,…
I got the travel itch when I was young, we actually didn’t do a whole lot of traveling as a family but some how the travel bug still formed. There is a good chance it was thanks to all the books I read as a child and my mom’s constant references to wanting to travel…
A few months ago we started receiving packages from the Little Passports subscription box. I was really excited about Little Passports because I feel so strongly about teaching my children about different countries and cultures. My kids love receiving mail so I didn’t tell them the package was coming and they were over the moon…
Today I wanted to continue the country book list series. Though, you may notice I’ve actually decided to do a whole continent, not a country. I’d love to break these down into individual country book lists at some point but right now there isn’t enough books for each country to do so. If you have…
New Zealand is definitely on my list of places to visit. I wanted to go there pre: Lord of the Rings but now going to see The Shire is a cool bonus. Also, we don’t have a lot of sheep around where I live so a country that has five sheep for every person sounds…