A dear friend and I have decided that "Two are better than one, because they have a good return for their work..." - Ecclesiastes 4:9 So, we are spreading out the "work" of homeschooling to get a better return! Specifically with our younger crew and geography lessons (trips are always more fun with friends!)
Welcome to our personal trip around the world - first stop... Russia! We are loosely using Expedition Earth - as our guide. Since I am sort of a curriculum junkie (stop laughing and keep reading...) - it was easy to go pull off a bunch of those "I-planned-to-use-this-when-we-study" books. If you homeschool, you know what I'm talking about! Here's a sampling of what we're reading:
Now, all we needed was a hands-on project to go with our first stop. My friend "Pinterest", do you know her... she's like a fantasy football team for girls, provided the perfect inspiration.
But the best part of our stop was our time praying! Window on the World is a long-time family favorite, if you don't have this book...you should. We all put our hands on it and brought the needs of Russia and her orphans straight to the throne of God - you absolutely can not have a better return than that! What a great day...
Stay tuned for our next Russian adventure!
Oh this is such an inspiration! I'd love to put something like this together for my crew!
ReplyDeleteSuch a fun study!!!!
ReplyDeleteLove Erica's stuff. I've used a bit of Expedition Earth in the past. I made the expensive mistake of purchasing Children Around the World from winter promise and it was so completely awful and inaccurate and unorganized that I used EE to help try and salvage it. It was beyond salvaging though. That was an expensive mistake since the company took no responsibility for the massive amount of errors and were not giving back my money.
I think curriculum junkie (or book collector) has replaced denim jumpers as the stereotype for homeschool moms.
ReplyDeleteWOW! Wonderful ideas!! I love the passport.
ReplyDeleteThank you for sharing.