Tag: Europe

  • Christmas in Iceland

    Christmas in Iceland

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    I attempted to recreate Christmas in Iceland, and very quickly discovered I do not have the necessary baking skills.  So this became a slightly less aggressive set of Homeschool Christmas and geography lesson, and instead focused a bit more on the spirit of the activity. Christmas in Iceland So, an Iceland tradition is to make…

  • Gingerbread Man lesson

    Gingerbread Man lesson

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    As part of our Christmas in Germany unit, we read The Gingerbread Man. There are so many great copies of this book you can find (I’m somewhat partial to the Jan Brett version), but for this particular unit, since we were studying Germany, I stuck with the original tale; besides, it made a great homeschool…

  • Germany Unit

    Germany Unit

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    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…

  • Moldova Unit

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    I have to admit I somewhat get Moldova confused with a couple of fictional countries from books and comic books I’ve read. It does not help that it is similar to a couple of the countries in those books, and I think the books were modeled after Moldova, so that’s not helping. Either way our…

  • Greece Unit

    Greece Unit

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    I was going through my posts and realized we completed our Greece Unit over five years ago and I haven’t written about it. I kept putting it off because I wanted to write individual posts for some of the topics, but I need to stop putting it off. So, significantly later, here is my Greece…