• May. 26, 2007
Summer!
Wow! Summer is here already! We've done all of our end of the school year stuff. We had our 4-H banquet, our piano receital and childrens chorus receital. Our last homeschool group meeting has come and gone. We have nothing pressing until fall.
We do have a few things lined up to do. Daughter is going to take lessons to learn to knit and I am going to teach her to sew. She and her dad want to take dulcimer lessons also. Son still has his fencing.
We are still doing lessons but not as much. The kids will still keep up with their math. They will have some writing but not spelling and grammer. I'll put some of that in with their writing. We have a book that we started and never finished about the elements. It has some neat experiments. We will do some of those. We just finished studying about the 1920's and we will continue on with the 30's and the depression.
It was not easy finding the kind of information I wanted for the 20's. There were several history type books in the library but I couldn't find a story type book that would tell about how life was. Then when I was reading about the short dresses and bobbed hair, I remembered Cheaper by the Dozen and how the Dad and the daughter clashed on that. I also rented a DVD about the presidents and we learned about Harding, Coolidge and Hoover. Son also watched the Untouchables, the old TV series, about Eliot Ness and Al Capone.
I did alot of research on my own before we started. It was very interesting. It certainly wasn't something I learned about in school. Hoover was a very interesting man. He led the relief effort in Europe during and after WWI. He was very active in Public Service during the Coolidge administration. He had ideas about ending the depression but they didn't work. Then public opinion turned on him and he couldn't get anything done.
Comments
• Jun. 11, 2007
hi
Posted by GingerForJesus
Hello, My name is Ginger and I'm new to HB, but I really enjoy it alot!
I like how you really go for it and delve into studying before presenting the information to your children! You are a great homeschooler; I can tell!
Ginger
ginger4Christ@hotmail.com
