When my oldest child turned 5, I ordered him a year long subscription to Little Passports World Edition which is meant for 6 to 10 year olds. It sounded like such an amazing idea, I couldn't wait until he was 6. (I have a problem with delayed gratification.) It really is a wonderful program for ...
Elementary Learning
United States Presidential Election Lap Book
This site uses affiliate links. I receive a small commission at no extra cost to you. Thank you!Please Note: The updated version of this lap book for the upcoming 2020 election can be found here. Can you believe that the U.S. Presidential election is less than 4 weeks away? If you're like most Americans, you're probably not super thrilled with the way the election is going. I have some ...
U.S. Presidential Election Cards
This site uses affiliate links. I receive a small commission at no extra cost to you. Thank you!Please Note: An updated version of these cards with the 2020 presidential candidates can be found here. It recently occurred to me that I was letting a rare educational opportunity pass by. The next time there will be a presidential election in the United States, my oldest child, now 6 years old, ...
Homemade Inventor’s Box
This site uses affiliate links. I receive a small commission at no extra cost to you. Thank you!I love the idea of open-ended learning. It's fun to do projects with my kids like our homemade wobblebot or propeller car, but I truly believe that kids learn best by messing around and seeing what works and what doesn't. There's nothing like hands-on experience. I first made an "inventor's box" ...
Ancient Greece Historical Figure Cards
This site uses affiliate links. I receive a small commission at no extra cost to you. Thank you!This week marks my son's one year anniversary of homeschooling. We didn't finish learning about all the cultures in Ancient history that I had planned, but that's okay. We'll come back around to it. Before we move on though, I at least want to finish my learning material for Ancient Greece. First, ...
Greek Mythology God and Goddess Cards
This site uses affiliate links. I receive a small commission at no extra cost to you. Thank you!You can't study ancient history without learning at least a little Greek mythology. The gods and goddesses of Ancient Greece permeated nearly every aspect of Ancient Greek life. If you decide to look in depth into the stories behind these mythological characters, you'll find that Greek mythology is ...
Theseus and the Minotaur: Ancient Crete Shoebox Craft
This site uses affiliate links. I receive a small commission at no extra cost to you. Thank you!My kids are having such a great time learning about ancient history. After spending the past few months on Egypt and Mesopotamia, we recently started on Ancient Greece. (They loved having an excuse to watch the Disney version of Hercules again.) We started off our study of Greece by reading about ...
Ancient Greece Definition Cards
This site uses affiliate links. I receive a small commission at no extra cost to you. Thank you!There is so much to love about Ancient Greece. The art, philosophy, greek mythology, the origins of democracy...if I had to choose a time to go back and visit, Ancient Greece would be a contender. (Of course, I'd prefer to be an elite male, and would rather be someplace like Athens than Sparta.) I ...
Homemade Propeller Car
This site uses affiliate links. I receive a small commission at no extra cost to you. Thank you!My kids love when we make little homemade "robots" that move and wiggle around. I've been wanting to make something more car or rover-like with wheels for awhile, but I wasn't exactly sure how to connect the motor to the wheels. This little propeller car kind of feels like cheating, since the ...
Homemade Steady Hand Game
This site uses affiliate links. I receive a small commission at no extra cost to you. Thank you!Instead of having kids glued to hand-held devices this summer, why not have them make their own? A homemade, single-player, steady hand game is a fun, easy project for elementary-aged kids that teaches them a little bit about electricity. To play the game, kids try to follow a curved wire path with ...