Category: history
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World War 2 unit
One of my favorite authors sent out an email reminding us that this week is the 70th anniversary of D-Day. I was lucky enough to be in France during the 50th anniversary of D-Day, and in honor of that, I’d like to share with you all of our World War 2 unit which is an…
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Teaching early elementary students how to write reports
Once we are adults, we spend large amounts of time writing reports, but it is not an easy skill to learn, and there are several types of reports. It is good from an early age for kids to write reports and learn how to write reports. I like to find different ways to incorporate learning…
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History Games for School
Regular readers of my blog will tell you we are BIG fans of history lessons here as well as gameschooling. I love finding new and unique ways to teach history lessons, and games often fills this challenge. Though many history games are not intended for young kids. Why play history games: Similar to my math…
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Mayflower craft Thanksgiving lesson
There are a whole slew of great books about the Pilgrims and the Mayflower to use for our history lessons, but I wanted to do something a little different, so we watched, drumroll please: A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving (affiliate link, there are several more in here) I remember seeing this as a little kid and…
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Viking Unit
Vikings are such an odd time period in history. As a culture, we are very obsessed with them. We’ve created so many movies and TV shows about them, and their actions did a lot to change our culture, but the individual Vikings do not do much to change our history. It makes it difficult to…