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Chantelle has not been enjoying her history this year. We had tried Ambleside's history again (we used the whole Ambleside our first year homeschool 3 years ago as well), but this time she can't stand it. Last year we did Story of the World Ancients and she loved it, but I thought it wasa little below her, so that is why I went back to Ambleside's more rigorous curriculum.

So she was looking on the CBD website and asked me to get her the Bob Jones Heritage Studies grade 7 (even though she is in grade 8) because it goes along with what we had started to study this year, the middle ages. So I ordered it (with my discount of course) and while we wait for me to get it, we have started a middle ages lapbook.

So far she has learned about the Vikings and will continue on with them today as well. It is going much better. No more groaning or even skipping work, but this has only been one day with the change, so we will see.

We are also working on a lapbook for Halloween. She should have that finished this week. We started it yesterday with learning the history of Halloween as well as the symbols. Today we will learn about pumpkins and the history of Jack O' Lanterns.

I'll post pictures of both lapbooks once they are finished. The middle ages one will take some time though.