Amazon.com Widgets As you can see North Carolina was not heavy on printable activities. Actually it wasn’t super busy this time through, most of the books I found were checked out of the library and didn’t straggle in for a while. North Carolina state symbols Design … [Read more...]
Blackbeard pirate lesson
My knowledge of Blackbeard primarily comes from a live action Disney movie from the 1960s. I watched Blackbeard's Ghost more times than I can count as a kid, and one of my favorite Christmas presents Jeff gave me when we were first married was a DVD of Blackbeard's Ghost. As I … [Read more...]
North Carolina: The Flyers
“The Flyers” is a very cute book with several kids who have been watching Orville and Wilbur Wright trying to fly. Each of the kids dreams about what might happen sometime in the future if they are successful. Most of their dreams have come true, not always how they were … [Read more...]
Greensboro sit-ins lesson
All it takes for evil to prosper is for good men to remain silent. I've seen variations on this quote for years. I've seen it attributed to pretty much every famous figure from the last 100 years or so. Segregation is evil prospering because no one spoke up. As I put this history … [Read more...]
Wright Brothers lesson
The Wright Brothers first flew in North Carolina, it's on their license plates and everything, this means when we studied North Carolina I had to create a Wright Brothers lesson and have a fun bit of history lesson and a fun science lesson as we tried to create our own flight. … [Read more...]