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Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief book club

October 11, 2019 Ticia 1 Comment

Percy Jackson book and a movie feature 6th 8th middle

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...]

reading and writing 6th grade, 8th grade, Ancient Greece, book and a movie, middle school

Aesop’s Fables, a fun a quick lesson

December 13, 2017 Ticia 9 Comments

Greek slave entertaining thousands with his fables

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...]

history Ancient Greece, ancient history, Mystery of History 1

Ancient Greeks for preschool

September 15, 2017 Ticia 11 Comments

ancient greek lesson greek pottery

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...]

arts and crafts, history Ancient Greece, ancient history, Mystery of History 1, preschool

How to learn the Greek gods and goddesses

June 14, 2017 Ticia 14 Comments

Greek mythology

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...]

history Ancient Greece, ancient history, book review, Mystery of History 1

A great resource for your Ancient Greece unit study

March 8, 2017 Ticia 6 Comments

Ancient Greece unit: Greek armor for your toy

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...]

history Ancient Greece, ancient history, Homeschool curriculum, Mystery of History 1

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