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We've been studying the city-states of Ancient Greece, and while I agree more with Athens, come on. Who doesn't actually love Sparta...

The kids had a fabulous time on their vacation to California! Their grandparents took them to museums, and beaches, and tide pools, and Le...

Syd spent much of last week learning how to make and break codes and edit Zoo Tycoon with Will, so whatever we didn't get to last wee...

Will's week of free schooling actually worked out wonderfully, with but a few reservations, the most important of which being her tw...

Just as we finally hashed out in our Family Meeting on Sunday, this week I only wrote lesson plans for Syd. Will has a math packet with a ...

I'm pretty well over the way that the Box widget that embeds my work plans always insists on scrolling immediately to them when my bl...

Creating a model sarcophagus is an excellent enrichment activity to add to an Ancient Egypt study , and it fits in well with chapter four of...

I feel like we have to listen to each chapter of Story of the World  a few times before everyone has really mastered all of the information....

Our break was good for mind and soul, but I'm also very happy to be back in business. We've got so many exciting things to learn and...

The kids have been excited about this project for a REALLY long while. I told them about it, but then made them burn through a few weeks of ...

Chapter two of Story of the World discusses the geography of Ancient Egypt, as well as its gods and goddesses, so I wanted to do another map...