Hello, My name is Karen and I'm from TN. We have close to 5 children. Matthew is 14, Adra is 12, Shelby is 3, Samuel is 18 months, and Baby Grace is due the...
Hi Karen, Welcome to the group! :) After reading much of "The Ultimate Geography" book from Maggie's website our family's delight in the subject has gone from...
Making Greenland out of cookie dough? Now that's my kind of geography!!! A couple of months ago we made Colorado out of meatloaf and colored mashed potatoes ...
Continuing on our study of Germany, I showed my kids a map of Germany divided into states and then showed them where their ancestors came from. We have German...
Our geography topic for this week is France because of all the rioting going on. We are doing a little current events along with our geography as I keep an...
In a message dated 11/6/2005 Karen in TN writes: "My 12 yod LOVES maps" Hi Karen! Here are some map links, most of which came from this group. You'll have to...
I had never heard of this country until I began homeschooling! I thought at first it was mythical LOL! Well, it shouldn't take long to cover it anyway. Great...
Hi all, We are going to be revising Hands-On Geography and I would like your input. I would like to drop a few activities and add some new ones. What has been...
Maggie, This message is in response to your request for feed back relative to Hands-On Geography. First of all, I think that Hands-On Geography is wonderful...
Dear tvjlawrence, I love the Upside-down map site that you sent!! _http://www.flourish.org/upsidedownmap/_ (http://www.flourish.org/upsidedownmap/) This is an...
... I forgot to add that the kids traced around the outside of the cross sections starting with the base of the mountain. They then took the cross section that...
I just finished a very good historical fiction book for children called "The Impossible Journey." It's about a family's struggles while Stalin was in power....
Another good book is "MiG Pilot" by John Barron. It's the true story of a Soviet pilot who defected to the West by flying his MiG-25 plane to Japan. There is...
YWAM just released a bio on Brother Andrew author Benge. For those of you who are not familiar with Brother Andrew he smuggled bibles into Russia for many many...
Thank you! I will an eye out for it. How we do take our freedom for granted sometimes ... thank you, Lord, for political freedom and spiritual freedom in...
As a read-aloud I think "The Impossible Journey" would be appropriate for children 7 and up. That's a very rough estimate. There were some emotional parts,...
Hi Rebecca, Oh, I loved reading about Brother Andrew! Someone gave me the book "God Smuggler" when I first came to the Lord in the 80's. Wow! It so expanded...
Susanne, I read Brother Andrews Story God's Smuggler when I was a teen and when it was first printed. I was 14, 15 or so and at the same time I read several ...
Hi dear friends (and friends yet un-met), Since I know so many of you on this list and you feel like family - I wanted to throw in a personal praise report...
Hello all. I have been hsing for 16 yrs and have 7 kids. oldest 2 are done and the 3rd is about to graduate this year. I hope to get many great ideas from you...
My teen daughter is interested in the background of WWI, so we got a timeline off the PBS web site and we have been discussing the world events leading up to...
Hi all, We are going to be studying ancient Greece in the next few weeks. I am looking for ideas for a Greek feast for our big finale night where the kids...
... Welcome Lori! (Waves from across the desert, 'hi') You'll find we're not a terribly chatty group, but we come up with some zingers of ideas, and I've been...
Lori, Your chicken embalming party sounds like it was a hoot! What a creative family! Welcome to the group! Dawn in IL [Non-text portions of this message have...
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