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  • Armenia unit study

    Armenia unit study

    I have to admit, the only information I knew about Armenia prior to this Armenia unit study was from my Holocaust and genocide advanced history class in college. That’s probably not what you want to teach your younger kids, so I did a bit of digging for this geography lesson, and while I still didn’t…

  • Bulgaria Unit

    Bulgaria Unit

    After years of randomly skipping around Europe, I finally said, let’s just get through this in a somewhat organized fashion. We finished off the countries that were partially done, and then I sat down starting from the beginning of the alphabet and worked our way through the beginning of Europe, so we could finally be…

  • Romania Unit

    Romania Unit

    Our Romania unit was a fun one. There wasn’t much to it, but Romania has a bit of fun personality to its portrayal in the movies. According to what I’ve learned, there is an element of truth in that portrayal, which made me smile. All in all a rather fun geography lesson, let’s talk about…

  • San Marino Unit

    San Marino Unit

    Sometimes you learn things you never expected to learn. For instance, with our San Marino unit, I learned there is not one, but two completely independent countries INSIDE Italy. I knew about Vatican City, which endlessly amuses my kids, but San Marino was a new one for me. If I hadn’t known better I would…

  • Bavarian Pot Roast: Germany recipe

    Bavarian Pot Roast: Germany recipe

    I had to laugh as I searched up German recipes because every single recipe started out like this, “My German grandma used to make this.” If they are to be believed, there are an astonishingly large number of German grandmothers running around among food bloggers. At least the one I picked did specify their German…