Living Books for Composer Study: Antonio Vivaldi
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Composer Study with Living Books: Antonio Vivaldi

I’ve learned over the past few years the benefit of  reading living books and I am making a real effort this year to add as many living books into our days as possible. Composer study and artist study are not something that are generally taught in the regular school system but hang around homeschoolers for a…

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Children' Books About Egypt - teach your children about Egypt and it's ancient history!
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Children’s Books About Egypt

As part of the Explore the World From Your Home digital resource guide that I’ve created I’ve got book lists for the countries included in the guide thus far. Today I thought I’d share some of the books from the Egypt section with you! The Explore the World digital resource guide is more than just…

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Eight Great Middle Grade Novels Even Adults Will Enjoy
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Eight Middle Grade Novels Even Adults Will Love

I have developed a love for mid-grade novels in the last few years. Generally middle grade novels are geared towards ages 8-12. They are around 30,000-50,000 words and don’t have any profanity, graphic violence or sexuality. There are a ton of novels that fit into this category and today I wanted to highlight some that…

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Poetry Tea Time in our homeschool
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Easy & Enjoyable Poetry Tea Time in Our Homeschool

Poetry Tea Time is something we’ve been doing for a few months now in our homeschool and I’ve had a few people ask about it. I first came across the idea of Poetry Tea Time on Instagram and through my rabbit trail found out that the idea started with Julie from Brave Writer. Of course…

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7 Books for Learning About Oceans and Sea Creatures
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7 Books For Studying Oceans & Sea Creatures

I totally blame it on the show Octonauts but we’ve been on a bit of an underwater kick around here lately. Each week Raeca picks a new animal or two to learn about in science and we’ve had a good stretch of sea creatures; pilot fish, jellyfish and the green sea turtle). The kids have…

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