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Generating Interest in History with Educational Videos for Kids, History Field Trips, and Historical Fiction

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“Can we go look for another history video?” my second grader asked me this morning. This was a bit unexpected. My daughter has not make it a secret that she is not interested in history. But since we found the Homeschool History website (created by the team at Notgrass history), I’ve found her more interested […]

Dogs in Space Mini-Rockets: Picture Book Space STEM

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Learn about the first dogs in space and make your own mini-rockets to take them there! This STEM project is sure to bring your students delight, all while learning about rockets and space race history.

What could be better than learning about space and sending off our own rockets? Learning about DOGS going in to space and helping send THEM up in to “space”! Today’s brief storybook-inspired science project found us learning about two stray dogs and their incredible journey into space. Then, we designed our own doggie rockets and […]

Introducing Veterans Day to Young Children

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Undrstanding Veterans Day gives a better undrstanding of the cost of freedom in our country.

I realize that my children are young, but I decided we needed to learn about his grandparents and great-grandparents who served in the armed forces today. Understanding the service given by veterans helps us understand the freedom we truly enjoy came at a cost.

Learning about the Declaration of Independence

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We do not always do a lot of formal learning during the summer, but Independence Day is always a nice chance to review early American history. Yes, we did learn about it last year. But since learning is a Line upon Line process, we’ll keep learning a little every year until my kids fly the […]

Hands-on American History Notebooking Pages

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Get Your Kicks on Route 66 in an old jalopy. We loved traveling across the country from Chicago to California as we learned about the Great Depression migration and the eras leading up to it via this fun trivia file folder game!

Since I have been teaching my son’s hands-on American history class at our homeschool co-op this year, I was super excited to get my hands on some great history notebooking pages that fit right in to our timeline of American history.

Best Picture Books About Martin Luther King, Jr.

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I'm searching for the best Martin Luther King picture book, and these are some of the finalists.

I’ve been on a mission! I am looking for the best Martin Luther King picture book for my young readers, and since I have kids a variety of ages, I wanted to select picture books and Martin Luther King biographies for kids of varying levels. My favorite Martin Luther King picture books are listed below. 

Learning about the First Thanksgiving Story with Printable Puppets

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Retell the story of the first Thanksgiving with these first Thanksgiving puppets of Pilgrim and Indian (Wampanoag) Children.

In anticipation of the upcoming holiday, we read The Very First Thanksgiving Day.  I made my preschool daughter a simple puppet template related to the traditional first Thanksgiving dinner with the Pilgrims and the Wampanoags. Although she is young, playing with First Thanksgiving Story Puppets is a nice start to understanding the meaning of the […]

Learning about Native American Homes

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I first wrote the booklet about early Native American homes because I could not find something simple for a brief introduction to Native Americans for my son. I wanted him to understand that there was a variety of cultures living on the American continent before Europeans arrived. I wanted him to understand that the vastness […]

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