Category: reading and writing
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Robin Hood book club
Years ago my brother read the Robin Hood Illustrated Classics book and told me all about how Robin Hood actually died. Or how he died in that particular version. See here’s the thing about Robin Hood, he gets reinvented every few generations for the politics of the current generation. Which makes this a perfect Book…
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Botany Unit
We never officially studied botany in our science lessons. We just ran into the occasional botany lesson, and I think we may have had a short botany unit when we had a year of zoology. Mainly because I remember having a lesson about different leaf types. Okay, but either way, I was realizing I had…
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Germany Unit
We studied Germany a couple of different times in our geography lessons. We studied it first when the kids were little as part of a Christmas Around the World Unit. Then we made a delicious meal, and finally we did a mad dash through Europe in high school. Now in 2025, years after we completed…
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Pirates booklist
Arrr! We all love pirates, or we like the theory of pirates, but if we think about it too much, we start to realize pirates are not the fun romanticized idea, so let’s just go with ARRR! I was looking up some books on something else when I saw a book I vaguely remembered reading…
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Best Christmas Pageant Ever book and a movie night
If you haven’t read The Best Christmas Pageant Ever, then you need to right now. You will not regret it. As soon as I found out it was a book and a movie, I had to do this. HAD TO. I listed it as one of my favorites on my Christmas books post last year.…