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Thinking of Cultural Geography for First GradeI have a plan for next year. I really do. Its right here for Beautiful who will be in First Grade. Handsome will be in Twelfth Grade and taking more cc classes and doing Literature and some SAT prep at home. Of course SweetPea will be 3. Now somebody tell my why I am planning next year. I think I just like to plan. Maybe I would be better off writing detailed lesson plans. That would be cool, but I would never follow them. I like to learn about different topics and write lists, but I don't like to follow directions - even my own. I think I want to do a Cultural Geography class next year with Beautiful. We will be doing earth science so this would be great. I like the idea of studying a different country each week. Beautiful loves to plan parties. We could spend two weeks on each country. One week we could learn what I want her to know about the country and the next week she could research on her own and plan a party for that country. I was inspired by the Children Around the World from Winterpromise, but after looking at the books for that program I decided that the themes were just too much for my sensitive little girl. We will look at the conditions of children and families in each country, but I don't want to focus so much on the hardships of people. Here are some of the books I am looking at for this. I think I will check them out from the library and go through them. I'll buy the ones I like them plan out which countries to use. Once I plan the countries, I will make a list of fiction stories for each of these countries that I can get from the library.  Hungry Planet: What the World Eats How People Live  Kids Around the World Celebrate!: The Best Feasts and Festivals from Many Lands (Kids Around the World) The Usborne Little Round The World Cookbook: Internet Linked (Children's Cooking)  Children Just Like Me A Life Like Mine  Stories from Around the World 10:46 PM - Sunday, April 29 - post comment
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Description A homeschool and life blog about the adventures of one mom and three kids (my ds Handsome who is 17, my dd Beautiful who is 6, and my dd SweetPea who is 2) and a wonderful husband (known here as hubby). I work full-time three days a week. Hubby works 5 days a week. I am a relaxed classical homeschooler that is making it all up as I go along. Home User Profile Archives
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