I watched the Percy Jackson movies when they came out and vowed I was never going to watch them again. They were awful, they butchered a book series I enjoyed, and it was especially frustrating after the Harry Potter books started out as portraying the books so well.* But, my … [Read more...]
Aesop’s Fables, a fun a quick lesson
This Aesop's Fables lesson is a quick and easy way to get your kids interacting with the material, and is a fun way to bring in homeschool history lesson (which is how we originally used it). The technique would be great for most subjects you learn, but today we used it for … [Read more...]
Ancient Greeks for preschool
When people tell me little kids can't learn about ancient history, I always give them a strange look. My kids loved learning about ancient history in our homeschool history lesson. Take our ancient Greeks lesson. (This post contains affiliate links marked with an … [Read more...]
How to learn the Greek gods and goddesses
We are reaching one of my favorite parts of Ancient history, Greek and Greek mythology. I was blessed enough to go to Europe in high school, and while there I found the most awesome book about Greek mythology and read it over and over again. I may or may not have used it in my … [Read more...]
A great resource for your Ancient Greece unit study
Several months ago I shared about our hands-on history Ancient Greece unit study we did a few years ago. At the time I thought I had a pretty definitive list of cool history lessons for ancient Greece, well I was wrong. I felt like a quick review was in order a few months ago … [Read more...]