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Spring Unit Study

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Spring is a great time to shake off winter blues and explore in the sunshine and warm weather!

I long for the flowers to bloom and the hummingbirds to return.

Everywhere we have lived, springtime announces her arrival differently.

Growing up in Georgia, springtime meant crocus and daffodils and Easter. I remember cold mornings and hot afternoons. I remember the scent of tulips on the pollen wind and tomato plants planted early in the red soil.

Texas was much the same, but much hotter.

Hawaii was like ultimate springtime.

Utah seemed never to get warm until late June. Crocus would push up through the snow and we would get excited for warm weather. The sun could burn our faces, but the ground was cold and the wind was biting for months.

Germany was always wet and foggy. Snowdrops, crocus, and daffodils would poke through the slush to brighten the day in late winter and early spring. The woods would suddenly spring alive with bugs and leaves and warm earthy scents.

Ohio is very wet in spring. We look forward to the blossoms of flowers and it seems to get later and later every year. Then, finally the bees and birds get as excited as we do to feel the warm sunshine.

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Spring Resources:

Spring is my favorite season!

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Vietnam Unit Study

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There’s so much more to the history and culture than what the news shows us.

I want my children to understand Asian history in our chronological studies of world history. I don’t want their education based on American stereotypes.

Our {evangelical and expensive} history curriculum was a little disappointing after WWII, so I had to research and find my own material to teach my kids about history that happened in my parents’ lifetime.

Vietnam Unit Study

I want to learn real history along with my kids, not just an American or white perspective.

Vietnam Unit Study

Topics:

  • Indochine colonialism
  • Vietnam War
  • Vietnamese Independence

Activities:

Eat in a Vietnamese restaurant
Learn to read and write in Vietnamese
Watch Vietnamese cartoons
Watch films and discuss
Visit a museum to view Vietnamese art
Visit a Vietnam Memorial
Read about Vietnam
Learn Asian geography

Printables and Lessons:

Vietnam Conflict from The Homeschool Mom
Vietnam War from The Homeschool Helper
Vietnam Lapbook from Homeschool Share
In The Hands of a Child Vietnam Curriculum
Vietnam and the Water Buffalo by Write Bonnie Rose
Vietnam Geography and Culture Notebooking from Notebooking Pages
Vietnam Flag from Activity Village
Vietnam from National Geographic
Asia from Guest Hollow

Book list:

Water Buffalo Days: Growing Up in Vietnam
Inside Out and Back Again
Escape from Saigon: How a Vietnam War Orphan Became an American Boy
Going Home, Coming Home/Ve Nha, Tham Que Huong
Cracker! The Best Dog in Vietnam
Weeping Under This Same Moon
Goodbye, Vietnam
The Lotus Seed

Films (use discretion):

Indochine with Catherine Deneuve
The Scent of Green Papaya
The Purple Horizon
Tam Cam
Green Dragon
Rescue Dawn
Uncommon Valor
We Were Soldiers
Full Metal Jacket
Forrest Gump
Hamburger Hill
Soldiers of Change
Platoon
Apocalypse Now
Born on the Fourth of July
Good Morning, Vietnam
The Deer Hunter
Flight of the Intruder
Casualties Of War
Tigerland
The Killing Fields

What stereotypes did you learn about Vietnam?

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Korea Unit Study

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We hear a lot about Korea in the news lately.

There’s so much more to the history and culture than what the news shows us.

I want my children to understand Asian history in our chronological studies of world history.

Our {evangelical and expensive} history curriculum was a little disappointing after WWII, so I had to research and find my own material to teach my kids real history and culture.

Korea Unit Study

I grew up watching M.A.S.H. with my parents and we own the complete DVD collection.

I want to learn real history along with my kids, not just an American perspective.

Korea Unit Study

Topics:

  • Communism
  • Korean War

Activities:

Eat in a Korean restaurant
Learn to read and write in Korean
Watch Korean cartoons or films
Visit a museum to view Korean art

Printables and Lessons:

South Korea unit
Studying South Korea
Resources about Korea
How to Study Korean
Studying Korea (scroll down)
South Korea Unit
South Korea Homeschool Unit Study for the Winter Olympics 2018
South Korea For Kids
Korea: North and South Resources
Read Around the World with South Korea
Winter Olympics Unit Study Resources…And Free Notebooking Pages

Book List:

So Far from the Bamboo Grove
Echoes of the White Giraffe
Year of Impossible Goodbyes
When My Name Was Keoko
Seesaw Girl
A Single Shard
The Korean Cinderella
My Name Is Yoon
Yoon and the Jade Bracelet
The Name Jar
Halmoni’s Day

Films (use discretion):

Heartbreak Ridge
Pork Chop Hill
Battle for Incheon: Operation Chromite
The Long Way Home
Welcome to Dongmakgol
71 Into the Fire
The Front Line
Tae Guk Gi – The Brotherhood of War
Last Princess
Red Family
Princess
Masquerade
Snowy Road
Manshin
The Royal Tailor
Ode to My Father
The Manchurian Candidate
In Love And War
A Little Pond
Steel Rain – Netflix original
Northern Limit Line
My Way

Have you traveled to or learned about Korea?

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Wright Brothers Unit Study

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One of the first things we wanted to do when we moved to the Dayton, Ohio, area was to visit the Wright Brothers sites.

Huffman Prairie Flying Field is right by Wright-Patterson Air Force Base.

There are historical plaques and markers explaining the history of the Wright Brothers and aviation in Dayton, Ohio.

This is a little train station platform for supplies.

The storage and repair barn

The launching area where they catapulted the plane into the air

We recently revisited Huffman Prairie to see the flowers.

When we first saw the prairie the end of June 2017, it had been really rainy and the flowers were taller and farther along in their bloom. There were even little toads hopping all around and we saw several deer.

In mid-July 2018, it’s been really hot and dry and the flowers are shorter and not as many are blooming. We saw no toads or deer, but lots of bees and butterflies.

Huffman Prairie Flying Field Interpretive Center

This ancient hill was once the burial ground of a Mound Builder Native American culture.

A gorgeous lookout, monument, and another museum.

The kids got a second Junior Ranger badge.

Huffman Dam

You can see Wright-Patterson Air Force Base on the right.

Wright B Flyer

Visit Wright “B” Flyer’s hangar and museum where you can get up close to our aircraft and meet the volunteers who designed, built, operate, and maintain them.  It’s all free!

Become an Honorary Aviator Member for $100.00 and receive a free orientation flight on Wright “B” Flyer. (We haven’t done that…yet.)

Wright-Dunbar Interpretive Center

The museum is extensive. We really enjoyed our time there!

Reading botany notebooks by Paul Laurence Dunbar and Orville Wright  – just like our Charlotte Mason nature study notebooking pages! They both were taught botany in 1887 by the same teacher – William Werthner.

The upper level includes a parachute museum.

Great photo ops with a parachute cutout and ejection seat.

The kids got Junior Ranger badges. Aaron got his Passport stamps.

We ate a picnic lunch at a little park outside the center.

The Wright Cycle Company Museum:

Orville’s last workshop façade memorial:

RiverScape Metropark

RiverScape is a gorgeous park in downtown Dayton to picnic, relax, walk, run, or bike.

They have concerts and events throughout the year.

Woodland Cemetery and Arboretum

Founded in 1841, Woodland Cemetery is one of the nation’s five oldest rural garden cemeteries and a unique cultural, botanical, and educational resource in the heart of Dayton, Ohio.

Memorial at the entrance to the Wright Brothers:

Wright Family Graves:

We also visited The National Museum of the Air Force last fall. We couldn’t even see it all. It’s HUGE!

Did you know?

The Wright brothers weren’t the first to earn their wings!
This brother team from Dayton, Ohio, did come up with the first truly controllable aircraft, we’ll give them that, but the real claim for first in flight fame goes to a German immigrant named Gustav Whitehead that occurred in Bridgeport, Connecticut. In 2013, Jane’s All the World’s Aircraft, which calls itself the world’s foremost authority on aviation history, named the August 1901 flight by Whitehead as the first successful powered flight in history, according to flyingmag.com. Jane reviewed evidence from aviation researcher John Brown that Whitehead may have made one and possibly two flights in a small monoplane of his own design (and powered by a tiny motor also of his own design) as early as 1901—two full years before the Wright Brothers.

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Shark Week Unit

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It’s Discovery Channel’s 30th anniversary of Shark Week, and you don’t want to miss out on this fun shark unit study.

My daughter has a lot of shark stuff.

My youngest daughter is a tad bit obsessed with sharks.

She has shirts, stuffed sharks, play sets, a shark tooth necklace, and more.

She’s watched all the Jaws and Sharknado moviesand lots of other fictional and documentary films about sharks. She also has the Jaws hardcover book and Sharkopedia. She can’t wait for The Meg in August!

We recently took trips to the Shedd Aquarium and Newport Aquarium.

She wants to be a marine biologist, specializing in the study of sharks.

Katie, Tori, and a friend designed a shark-themed restaurant for an architecture class.

She had a shark-themed 11th birthday:

 Shark Units and Resources

Shark Movies (these can be pretty scary or gory)

  1. Jaws and sequels
  2. Deep Blue Sea
  3. Open Water and 2 sequels
  4. Sharknado and 5+ sequels
  5. Sharks in Venice
  6. Super Shark
  7. Mega Shark Versus Giant Octopus
  8. Jurassic Shark
  9. Sharktopus
  10. Shark Tale – animated for kids

What’s your favorite shark (or ocean creature)?

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Cupcakes

Prep Time 10 minutes
Cook Time 15 minutes
Total Time 25 minutes
Servings 12 cupcakes

Ingredients

  • 1 stick unsalted butter softened
  • 1 cup sugar
  • 2 eggs
  • 1/2 t vanilla
  • 1 1/2 c cake flour
  • 1 1/2 t baking powder
  • 1/4 t kosher salt
  • 1/2 c milk

Instructions

  1. Cream together butter, sugar, and vanilla in a bowl.

  2. Sift together dry ingredients in another bowl.

  3. Alternate adding milk with the dry ingredients into the butter sugar mix. Whip batter for several minutes.

  4. Fill 12 muffin cups 2/3. Bake at 350* for about 15 minutes.

  5. Allow to cool before frosting with your favorite flavor.

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Winter Unit Study

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Winter is a fun time to learn, read winter books, and explore outdoors!

Winter Activities:

Go on a winter nature hike in the woods or at a nature center and look for animal tracks.

Go on a simple winter walk through your neighborhood and look at the transformation.

Snow painting is great art and science.

Frozen bubbles is fun science!

Measuring snow is great science and math learning.

Make birdseed balls or popcorn strands for animals.

Sledding and snowballs are fun for all ages!

Make snowball cookies for a yummy treat. Learn about ice and salt. Make a backyard igloo.

Go ice skating!

Fun toddler and preschool winter activities: Winter Theme Fun and Winter Tot School.

Study an Antarctica unit and penguins.

There are lots of fun arts and crafts for indoor fun, like painting resist snowflakes with tape or “snow paint” with shaving cream.

Winter is a great time to warm up with a tea party or hot chocolate and a fun movie or story time.

Check out my Winter Book List.

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Being proactive about health in winter is important.

More fun winter activities:

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China Unit Study

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We’ve always been fascinated about China – history, geography, culture – especially Katie.

She chose China as her topic for our homeschool geography fair a couple years ago.

I think she did a great job on her display board!

China Unit Study

We celebrate Chinese New Year and we love making Chinese-inspired recipes like cashew chicken.

Book list:

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Beauty and Makeup Unit Study

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I have three daughters.

In this complicated world we live in, I feel like I’m constantly doing battle to balance the forces of good and evil in how I raise them to love themselves.

Sure, we could go to the extreme of looking like we live in an episode of Little House on the Prairie and that might be easier sometimes. But it’s not me.

My girls are naturally kind and modest. They are beautiful on the inside and outside. They have good genes.

But I want them to learn about good skincare. I want them to learn how and when to apply makeup well.

I teach my kids that our skin is a powerful filtering organ and if it’s upset, then we have to heal ourselves from the inside – with food and rest.

I want my daughters to know that there’s so much more than makeup and clothes and a pretty face.

I wish I had had better education as a teen when it came to a beauty routine. I educated myself with Glamour and Redbook magazines, which left a lot of questions unanswered, and even though they were a bit tamer in the ’80s than the magazines are now, they were hyper-sexualized. I learned styling techniques but not much about heart beauty.

This unit study teaches about inner beauty, skincare, and makeup application. It includes fun and simple recipes to make at home for cleansing and moisturizing. Also, some resources for best colors to wear for different skin tones, hair, and eye colors.

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Download my FREE Beauty and Makeup Unit Study HERE.

Here’s our favorite resources.

Great books about powerful ladies:

Our favorite movies about strong girls:

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Thanksgiving Unit Study

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We’re focusing on American history this year in our homeschool.

I don’t waste my kids’ time forcing them to write gratitude journals or notebooking through thankfulness lists. We practice being thankful all the time. I write Scripture each month with the handy calendars from Sweet Blessings. We read the Bible together every evening and my kids do morning devotions and Bible workbooks together every day. So, I think I’ve got all that covered and don’t feel the need to squeeze anymore in for the month of November.

We live far from family, so we don’t really look forward to a huge meal and football with grandparents, cousins, aunts and uncles. We used to spend Thanksgiving at church – a huge potluck dinner. Now, we tend to travel over the long Thanksgiving weekend. We often have turkey and fixings during Rosh Hashanah. The last couple years, we’ve traveled to Prague and Porto and Venice. Since Aaron is deployed, we might just eat ham and play games together during the quiet long weekend.

We like to learn about the reasons Europeans colonized the Americas.

It wasn’t all a pleasant experience during that time of history. We also learn about the tensions between colonists and natives with lots of books and documentaries.

Americans celebrate our national day of Thanksgiving with turkey and football, but millions of people were and are being treated so poorly around the world. I want my kids to understand real history and not some whitewashed version written by people who consider themselves the winners.

November is also Native American month, so we learn about the tribes who inhabited the land and area we now call home.

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We snuggle up on the sofa and read together in the mornings and evenings. Hygge. With candles and kitties.

We get through these cold, dreary days when it gets dark at 4 PM with warm tea and cider, baking delicious cinnamon-scented goodies – like pumpkin scones, trying new soup concoctions, diffusing essential oils, and wearing fuzzy slippers. We take our cod liver oil and have on our happy light at least 20 minutes every day.

Books we Love:

I go to the library and request all the books I can on our topics of study.

Here is a list of our favorite Thanksgiving books!

Resources:

Videos:

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We used to do fun crafts and activities when the kids were younger, but now that they’re older and no longer interested, we often just read and discuss and bake and watch movies together.

We practice being grateful and content in all circumstances.

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Reformation Unit Study

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I wish we had the time and resources to travel all over Europe to study the Protestant Reformation.

We’ve traveled to Prague to view the statue of Jan Huß.

Jan Huß was a Czech priest, philosopher, early Christian reformer and Master at Charles University in Prague. After John Wycliffe, the theorist of ecclesiastical Reformation, Hus is considered the first Church reformer, as he lived before Luther, Calvin, and Zwingli.

Hus was a key predecessor to Protestantism, and his teachings had a strong influence on the states of Western Europe, most immediately in the approval of a reformist Bohemian religious denomination, and, more than a century later, on Martin Luther himself. He was burned at the stake for heresy against the doctrines of the Catholic Church, including those on ecclesiology, the Eucharist, and other theological topics.

After Huß was executed in 1415, the followers of his religious teachings (known as Hußites) rebelled against their Roman Catholic rulers and defeated five consecutive papal crusades between 1420 and 1431, in what became known as the Hußite Wars. A century later, as many as 90% of inhabitants of the Czech lands were Hußites.

This was almost 100 years before Martin Luther nailed his 95 These to the church door.

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We really love the humongous statue to Martin Luther and other Protestant Reformers in Worms, Germany.

Most of us are familiar with Martin Luther and his 95 Theses.

Luther focused on the doctrine of justification by faith alone.

Martin Luther’s story is fascinating, involving legal tangles with the Catholic church and government authorities, excommunication, kidnapping, hiding away in a castle where he translated the Bible, then he married an ex-nun. They had six children. He wrote and taught and composed hymns until his death.

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It is legend that Luther said the words: “Here I stand. I cannot do otherwise. God help me. Amen.”
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What Luther really said:
“Unless I am convinced by Scripture and plain reason – I do not accept the authority of the popes and councils, for they have contradicted each other – my conscience is captive to the Word of God. I cannot and I will not recant anything for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe. God help me. Amen.”

The monument is quite massive.

Luther stands in the center and the four seated on the base are Girolamo Savonarola, Peter Waldo, John Wycliffe, and Jan Hus.

The two men standing on either side in front are Frederick III, Elector of Saxony and Philip I, Landgrave of Hesse.

The two standing in the back are Johannes Reuchlin and Philipp Melanchthon.

Three seated women on the sides and back center represent the first German cities to adopt Protestantism: Augsburg, Speyer, and Magdeburg.

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This map of the monument shows more info and where everyone is.

Where I’d like to go:

The city of Wittenberg, Germany, has a 500-year anniversary celebration of the 95 Theses!

There’s a John Calvin Museum in Geneva, Switzerland. But Switzerland is sooo expensive to eat and stay.

We’ve been reading lots.

I love these series: Christian Biographies for Young Readers by Simonetta Carr and Historical Biblical Fiction by Louise A. Vernon.

Resources:

The Reformation is a fascinating time in history and helped to usher in the Renaissance!

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