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Normandy Memorial Sites

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May 26, 2017 By Jennifer Lambert 11 Comments

We visited Normandy in 2016.

I want my children to understand Memorial Day. I don’t want them to grow up thinking it’s just a day off school or work, for barbecues and pools and parties.

I want them to understand the importance of all the men and women who died for our freedoms, that we too often take for granted.

I want them to appreciate all of America’s Allies and how the world can work together for peace. But sometimes, we come together in conflict.

And we must remember.

We visited Utah Beach, the Normandy American Cemetery, Omaha Beach, and Pointe du Hoc.

We first visited Utah Beach Museum and monuments.

Utah Beach Museum

It was one of the few sunny days of our trip. It was chilly but lovely.

Higgins Boat Monument at Utah Beach

The beach is beautiful now, but holds so much sad history.

Utah Beach

utah-beach

It’s hard to imagine all the lives lost on this beach.

We went to the Memorial Day service at the Normandy American Cemetery.

It was very emotional.

Normandy American Cemetery hosted its annual Memorial Day Ceremony on Sunday, May 29, 2016, at 10.30 am.

We got to stand right up at the railing!

front-row

SEE MY VIDEO.

Program:

Master of CeremoniesRené Huard, AOMDA
SuperintendentDaniel L. Neese
Deputy SuperintendentMichael Coonce
The Marseillaise and the Star Spangled Banner 
Welcoming RemarksDaniel Neese
Opening RemarksRené Huard
Opening PrayersFather Xavier Signargout, Diocese of Bayeaux and Lisieux
Capt. Gary P. Weeden, Command Chaplain of U.S. European Command
Rabbi Meyer Malka, Jewish Community of Caen
AddressesSara Harriger, U.S. Consul for Western France
Patrick Thomines, Mayor of Coleville-sur-Mer
Laurent Fiscus, Prefect of Calvados Department
Lt. Gen. William B. Garrett, III, Deputy Commander of U.S. European Command
Closing PrayerFather Xavier Signargout, Diocese of Bayeaux and Lisieux
Laying of Wreaths 
Taps-Raising of the Colors 
Retiring of the Colors 
Participation of Troops5th Signal Command Color Guard, U.S. Army Europe
Unit Garrison of Cherbourg, France
French Military Band of the Artillery of Rennes, France

9,387 Americans are buried at Normandy American Cemetery in Colleville-sur-Mer, Normandy, France.

The Memorial faces the United States at its nearest point to the cemetery – between Eastport and Lubec, Maine.

normandy-american-cemetery-memorial

The 22-foot bronze statue entitled The Spirit of American Youth Rising from the Waves.

american-youth-rising-from-the-waves

The reflecting pool and chapel:

reflecting-pool

The beaches from the orientation table:

beaches-from-normandy-american-cemetery-orientation-table

We got to watch an interview with WWII Veteran Curtis Phillips.

wwii-veteran-curtis-phillips

My kids got to shake his hand and thank him for his service.

This is something they will always remember!

shaking-curtis-phillips-hand

We remember the fallen.

remembering-the-fallen

After the memorial service, we toured the Omaha Beach Museum and monuments.

There’s a good video in the museum and lots of static displays.

It really helped the kids (and I) understand the Normandy WWII battles.

amphibious-vehicle
army-truck
omaha-beach-museum

The Omaha Beach has a monument in the sand: Les Braves.

les-braves

An airplane did flybys around Pointe du Hoc and Omaha Beach for Memorial weekend.

I had a canvas made of this image.

flyby

In the afternoon, we hiked around Pointe du Hoc.

I never learned about this in school!

Pointe du Hoc is a promontory with a 100 ft (30 m) cliff overlooking the English Channel on the coast of Normandy in northern France. During World War II it was the highest point between Utah Beach to the west and Omaha Beach to the east. The German army fortified the area with concrete casemates and gun pits. On D-Day (6 June 1944) the United States Army Ranger Assault Group assaulted and captured Pointe du Hoc after scaling the cliffs.

We were amazed by the bunkers and passageways and how the brave men conquered the area.

bunker-at-pointe-du-hoc
hidden-bunker-at-pointe-du-hoc

The Normandy WWII monuments are a pilgrimage all Americans should try to make to understand history.

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Normandy with Kids

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November 10, 2016 By Jennifer Lambert 10 Comments

We’ve been longing to tour Normandy, France, for months, researching and planning, adding and removing sites to visit.

Our Normandy tour hit all the highlights for the D-Day sites…

and places we’ve studied about the Middle Ages.

Normandy with Kids

I’ve been asked how accessible Normandy is for the elderly or someone with a walker or wheelchair.

We saw the Bayeux Tapestry and it’s a short little tour through the tapestry room and a nice museum upstairs. There are elevators. The Bayeux Cathedral is pretty too, right around the corner from the Tapestry.

Mont St. Michel has free shuttle buses to and from the visitors’ center, but the tour through the castle and town might be long and difficult.

The Omaha Beach and Utah Beach museums are pretty easy to maneuver, with benches for resting. The actual beaches are not far from parking areas and it’s worth a looksee and to just stand there in awe. The American cemetery is, of course, very well-kept and very easy to get around the paved pathways.

Pointe du Hoc is amazing. The visitors’ center has a good video. Behind the center are info plaques to read about the history and heroes. The grounds have rough paths and it’s a lot of walking, but there are good maps, so you could just see one bunker or get a view of it all. Take it slowly as you need.

We also went to Rouen to see the Joan of Arc church and fun new interactive museum. There was a parking garage right beside the church and marketplace, but the museum was down a pedestrian road. We didn’t make it to the Rouen Tower, but we saw it from the museum window.

Our Normandy Itinerary

Day 1: Grandcamp Maisie

We drove from home to our apartment-hotel in Grandcamp Maisie. It was a looooong road trip.

We cooked a dinner with marinated chicken from the cooler and walked along the beach before bedtime.

Grandcamp Maisie Beach

It was quite cold, but we loved exploring the tide pools and looking at the crabs!

crab

Day 2: Bayeux and Utah Beach

We drove to Bayeux to see the tapestry and cathedral.

Here’s the entrance to the Bayeux Tapestry building.

Bayeux Tapestry Museum

Upstairs is neato little museum.

There’s a replica of a Viking church boat. They would take people across the fjords to church.

thorvald-kirkebat-replica

Also, a copy or replica of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle.

the-anglo-saxon-chronicle

There’s a great little place to eat right on the canal: Moulin de la Galette.

Bayeux Cathedral
bayeux-cathedral-entance
bayeux-cathedral-interior

In 1794, a liberty tree was planted on the cathedral grounds.

liberty-tree

In the afternoon, we visited Utah Beach Museum and monuments.

See my post about the Normandy Memorial Sites.

Utah Beach Museum

It was one of the few sunny days of our trip. It was chilly but lovely.

Higgins Boat Monument at Utah Beach

The beach is beautiful now, but holds so much history.

Utah Beach

utah-beach

It’s hard to imagine all the lives lost on this beach.

Day 3: Mont St. Michel

We drove to Mont St. Michel.

At the entrance of this medieval town is the ancient Burgher’s Guardroom now the Tourist Office.

After going through the Boulevard Gate and then the King’s Gate fortified with its portcullis, you will find the Grande Rue or main street with its museums, shops, and houses dating from the 15th and 16th centuries. The parish church consecrated to St.Pierre, the patron saint of fishermen, is a small edifice from the 15th and 16th centuries.

The Mount consecrated to St. Michel in 708 was one of the first places of cult for the Archangel Michel with the Gargan’s Mount.

The abbey is open every day except the 1st of January, the 1st of may and the 25th of December.

2 May to 31 August: 9 am to 7 pm, last admission at 6 pm.
1 September to 30 April: 9:30 am to 6 pm, last admission at 5 pm

In case of high tide preventing access to Mont St. Michel, the opening time of the abbey can be changed. Pets not allowed.

  • Adults: 9 €
  • Reduced rate (18-25 years old which are non-European): 7 €
  • People under 26 years old who are citizens of one the 27 countries of EU or are non-European permanent residents of France: FREE of charge
  • Children less than 18 years (family visit): FREE of charge

There are free shuttle buses to/from the castle town.

The area surrounding the castle and the little village around the visitors’ center are pretty touristy. There are lots of little shops and restaurants. They only open during lunch and dinner time. We had to get a quick pastry at the bakery in town when we missed lunchtime. Don’t miss buying some Mere Poulard cookies from the touristy shops though! They’re amazing and we still wish we had some.

Our first glimpse of Mont St. Michel rising from the marshes:

mont-st-michel-rising-from-the-marshes

My son loves models and we thought these showing the development of Mont St. Michel over the centuries were great.

mont-st-michel-development

Mass is sung at 12:15 every day except Mondays. The acoustics were amazing.

nave-of-the-abbey

The church facade:

classic-facade-of-the-church-abbey-saint-michel

View of the tides:

mont-st-michel-tides

The light in the cloister was beautiful and peaceful.

cloister

Three arches of the cloister are opened to the sea or to the outside. Those openings were the entryway to the chapter house that was never built. The columns, arranged in quincunx, were originally made of limestone from England but were later restored using puddingstone from Lucerne.

The cloister has in the middle a medieval garden recreated in 1966 by brother Bruno de Senneville, a Benedictine monk. The center is made of box tree surrounded by 13 Damascus roses. The squares of medicinal plants, aromatic herbs and flowers symbolize the daily needs of Middle age monks. In the middle of the box trees were monsters to remind that in the middle of any marvel evil could still be there.

the-cloister

The refectory. The little stair on the right is where the head monk would read during mealtimes.

refectory
salle-des-chevaliers-knights-hall

The old windlass:

windlass

The crypt has massive pillars erected in 1446, holding up the foundation of the choir.

la-crypte-de-gros-piliers

It was a long day. We had dinner in Grandcamp Maisie.

I had local oysters (the best I’ve ever eaten!) and a regional salad with Andouillette sausage, apples, and Camembert cheese. It was amazing!

oysters

Calvados is apple brandy and it was a great accompaniment to dessert.

calvados

Day 4: Rouen

We drove to Rouen to see the cathedral and Joan of Arc sites.

Rouen Cathedral is gorgeous:

Rouen Cathedral
Joan of Arc Chapel in Rouen Cathedral

Eternal flame where Joan was executed:

Eternal Flame at Base of the Cross outside Eglise Sainte-Jeanne-d'Arc de Rouen
Cross Monument Église outside Sainte-Jeanne-d'Arc de Rouen

Joan of Arc church in marketplace:

Front Facade of Eglise Sainte-Jeanne-d'Arc de Rouen

The church is shaped like an overturned ship.

Eglise Sainte-Jeanne-d'Arc de Rouen downspout

Statues inside:

Bust Statue of Joan of Arc
Michel Coste Statue of Joan of Arc

The new Joan of Arc museum and doorway to the old bishop’s palace.

Interior courtyard of the Bishop's palace Rouen
Joan of Arc Museum

We really enjoyed our day in Rouen.

Day 5: Normandy American Cemetery, Omaha Beach, Pointe du Hoc

We went to the Memorial Day service at the American Cemetery.

It was very emotional.

Normandy American Cemetery hosted its annual Memorial Day Ceremony on Sunday, May 29, 2016, at 10.30 am.

We got to stand right up at the railing!

front-row

Program:

Master of CeremoniesRené Huard, AOMDA
SuperintendentDaniel L. Neese
Deputy SuperintendentMichael Coonce
The Marseillaise and the Star Spangled Banner 
Welcoming RemarksDaniel Neese
Opening RemarksRené Huard
Opening PrayersFather Xavier Signargout, Diocese of Bayeaux and Lisieux
Capt. Gary P. Weeden, Command Chaplain of U.S. European Command
Rabbi Meyer Malka, Jewish Community of Caen
AddressesSara Harriger, U.S. Consul for Western France
Patrick Thomines, Mayor of Coleville-sur-Mer
Laurent Fiscus, Prefect of Calvados Department
Lt. Gen. William B. Garrett, III, Deputy Commander of U.S. European Command
Closing PrayerFather Xavier Signargout, Diocese of Bayeaux and Lisieux
Laying of Wreaths 
Taps-Raising of the Colors 
Retiring of the Colors 
Participation of Troops5th Signal Command Color Guard, U.S. Army Europe
Unit Garrison of Cherbourg, France
French Military Band of the Artillery of Rennes, France

9,387 Americans are buried at Normandy American Cemetery in Colleville-sur-Mer, Normandy, France.

The Memorial faces the United States at its nearest point to the cemetery – between Eastport and Lubec, Maine.

normandy-american-cemetery-memorial

The 22-foot bronze statue entitled The Spirit of American Youth Rising from the Waves.

american-youth-rising-from-the-waves

The reflecting pool and chapel:

reflecting-pool

The beaches from the orientation table:

beaches-from-normandy-american-cemetery-orientation-table

We got to watch an interview with WWII Veteran Curtis Phillips.

wwii-veteran-curtis-phillips

My kids got to shake his hand and thank him for his service. This is something they will always remember!

shaking-curtis-phillips-hand

We remember the fallen.

remembering-the-fallen

After the memorial service, we toured the Omaha Beach Museum and monuments.

There’s a good video in the museum and lots of static displays.

amphibious-vehicle
army-truck
omaha-beach-museum

The Omaha Beach has a monument in the sand: Les Braves.

les-braves

An airplane did flybys around Pointe du Hoc and Omaha Beach for Memorial weekend.

flyby

In the afternoon, we hiked around Pointe du Hoc.

I never learned about this in school!

Pointe du Hoc is a promontory with a 100 ft (30 m) cliff overlooking the English Channel on the coast of Normandy in northern France. During World War II it was the highest point between Utah Beach to the west and Omaha Beach to the east. The German army fortified the area with concrete casemates and gun pits. On D-Day (6 June 1944) the United States Army Ranger Assault Group assaulted and captured Pointe du Hoc after scaling the cliffs.

bunker-at-pointe-du-hoc

hidden-bunker-at-pointe-du-hoc

Day 6: Home

We drove home. We had planned to visit Giverny, but the weather was terrible. It rained from Paris to the border. There was tragic flooding in Paris and Germany. It was a rough and wet and loooong drive home!

Our Normandy trip spanned many eras of history. We’ll remember it forever!

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American Military Cemetery in Luxembourg

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October 5, 2015 By Jennifer Lambert 1 Comment

The American Military Cemetery Luxembourg is the resting place of 5,076 American service members.

American Military Cemetery in Luxembourg

We enjoyed studying these relief maps of Military Ops in Western Europe and the Ardennes Rhineland Campaign

Relief Maps of Western Europe and Ardennes

The Remembrance Chapel

Remembrance Chapel

The Altar and Stained Glass Window inside the Chapel

Chapel Altar

The Chapel Ceiling Mosaic

Chapel Ceiling Mosaic

There are 118 servicemen buried here of the Jewish faith, whose headstones are in the shape of a Star of David.

Jewish Grave
American Military Cemetery Luxembourg-Hamm

Four fountains represent the apostles and dolphins and turtles symbolize resurrection and everlasting life.

Fountains

General Patton was buried here on Christmas Eve, 1945, three days after he died in Heidelberg, Germany.

General Patton Grave

Kate wanted to find the grave of the Army nurse, the only female in the cemetery.

Army Nurse

Visiting Hours

The cemetery is open daily to the public from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Closed December 25 and January 1.

Information

About 1.5 hours from Ramstein and 45 minutes from Spangdahlem

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Visit to Dachau

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September 28, 2015 By Jennifer Lambert 2 Comments

After our idyllic weekend in Bavaria, we drove home past Munich and visited Dachau.

It was a humbling experience for our family visiting Dachau to learn about WWII history.

We recently had studied about Dachau and other concentration camps in our history studies.

There is a tragic beauty to the area with its trees, memorials, and austere gravel path.

For the dead and the living, we must bear witness.

Elie Wiesel

We were quiet and wide-eyed as we emerged from the visitor’s center and restrooms, and seemed to leave modern society.

There are stations with signs throughout for a self-guided tour.

We followed the path which mimics that of the prisoners entering the concentration camp.

I whispered explanations and read the station signs aloud to the children.

Station 1: In Front of the Jourhaus

The Dachau Concentration Camp opened with the arrival of the first prisoners on March 22, 1933. This is a remnant of the train platform and tracks.

The Jourhaus served as the main exit and entrance to the prisoners’ camp and as the main office of the camp SS.

Dachau Railroad Track and Platform

Station 2: The Jourhaus

The Jourhaus served as the main exit and entrance to the prisoners’ camp and as the main office of the camp SS personnel.

The ominous front gate with its ironic motto: Work Makes Free.

Work Makes You Free

I shed tears as I walked through these gates.

Station 3: International Memorial

Officially dedicated in 1968, the International Monument was designed by the Yugoslavian artist and concentration camp survivor, Nandor Glid.

International Monument - Sculpture by Nandor Glid

Station 4: Maintenance Building

Today the exhibition documenting the history of the Dachau concentration camp is located in the rooms of the former maintenance building.

We rushed through the museum last since I wanted to make sure we saw the memorials.

We skipped the video as recommended for ages 12+. They were locking the doors as we finished the last part of the exhibit.

During the ordeal of roll call, the prisoners were confronted with the inscription painted on the roof of the maintenance building which read: “There is one path to freedom. Its milestones are: obedience, honesty, cleanliness, sobriety, diligence, orderliness, self-sacrifice, truthfulness, love of the fatherland.”

Station 5: Shunt Room

This is the section of the Maintenance Building where prisoners were admitted.

Station 6: Prisoner Baths

Also in the Maintenance Building. The baths were the last station of the admission procedure.

Station 7: Courtyard and Bunker

There were three detention buildings (bunkers) in camp.

Station 8: Roll-call Square

The open area was able to hold fifty thousand people.

May the example of those who were exterminated here between 1933 and 1945 because of their fight against National Socialism unite the living in their defense of peace and freedom and in reverence of human dignity.

Resist and Unite

Station 9: Barracks

A total of 34 barracks were located on the right and left of the camp road. It was pretty devastating to view the conditions of the 2 reconstructed barracks. Outlined beds of gravel show the location of the former barracks. They have numbers in front of each bed.

Station 10: Camp Road

A line of evenly-spaced poplar trees was planted on each side of the camp road in 1937. The original trees were cut down in 1964 and the current trees were planted in the 1980s.

I was reminded of this poem by my favorite poet:

Wind shakes the big poplar,
quicksilvering
The whole tree in a single sweep.
What bright scale fell and left this needle quivering?
What loaded balances have come to grief?

~Seamus Heaney

And Psalm 137: 1-6:

By the rivers of Babylon we sat and wept
    when we remembered Zion.
There on the poplars
    we hung our harps,
for there our captors asked us for songs,
    our tormentors demanded songs of joy;
    they said, “Sing us one of the songs of Zion!”

How can we sing the songs of the Lord
    while in a foreign land?
If I forget you, Jerusalem,
    may my right hand forget its skill.
May my tongue cling to the roof of my mouth
    if I do not remember you,
if I do not consider Jerusalem
    my highest joy.

Poplars and Barracks Foundations

There are seven watchtowers. The grass was off-limits. Prisoners were shot if they touched the grass.

Forbidden Grass

Station 11: Crematorium

We did not go into this area. There are some monuments.

Crematorium Area

Station 12: Religious Memorials

  • Carmelite Convent
  • The Protestant Church of Reconciliation
  • The Jewish Memorial
  • The Russian-Orthodox Chapel
  • The Mortal Agony of Christ Chapel (below)
The Mortal Agony of Christ Chapel

Station 13: International Memorial

This part of the monument recalls the triangle badges that marked every prisoner as of 1937.

Triangle Patch Relief

At the end of the monument are the words “Never Again” in Yiddish using Hebrew letters, and in French, English, German and Russian.

An urn with the ashes of the unknown concentration camp prisoner lies before it and recalls the fate of the thousands of people whose corpses were burnt in the crematorium. It was buried here in May 1967. The panel on the left narrow side of the monument notes further: “This monument was erected in honor of the tens of thousands of martyrs, who died here as victims of National Socialist tyranny and was dedicated on September 8, 1968 by the Comité International de Dachau.”

NEVER AGAIN

When we left, we started to walk down the Path of Remembrance, but it was too far and we were all exhausted.

The commandant’s house:

Commandant's House

Former Business Enterprises of the Dachau Concentration CampBusiness Enterprises of Dachau

We saw this poignant memorial as we left the parking lot. We didn’t notice it when we turned in.

Poignant Monument

My children were aged 5, 8, 9, and 14 when we visited Dachau. They understood and were respectful of all the monuments and exhibits. You know your kids best, if they can handle and understand such an experience. It was very moving.

Visitor Info:

Open daily from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm. Closed December 24.

Entry is free. Parking fees are €3,00 per car.

View the guidelines for visitors here. (We saw a man wearing a pretty graphic inappropriate T-shirt. Don’t be that guy.)

It’s about 4 hours from Ramstein and 5.5 hours from Spangdahlem.

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World War II Unit Study

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August 8, 2013 By Jennifer Lambert 9 Comments

We studied World War II with Notebooking, Books, Videos, and Trips.

Series:
American Revolutionary War
Civil War
World War I
World War II
 Iraq and Afghanistan

World War II Unit

We watched in horror as the world erupted in war. When America was attacked at Pearl Harbor, it was devastating to Americans.
We defended our nation and its people and fought valiantly in Europe and the Pacific.
 
The genocidal state of Germany made the rapid extermination of a cultural and racial group {including women and children} an unprecedented event in the history of the world. Almost 6 million or 78% of the Jews in Europe were murdered during WWII, along with millions of others, such as Slavs, disabled, persons of color, Freemasons, homosexuals, and Jehovah’s Witnesses.
Few knew about the situation and even fewer tried to help.

Travel

  • Our Dachau Trip
  • Normandy Memorial Sites
  • Prague Synagogues

Resources

  • WWII Lapbook
  • WWII Lapbook and Notebooking Pages
  • Homeschool Share Holocaust
  • The Power of a Paperclip
  • Free Unit from Something 2 Offer
  • Unit Study from Tina’s Dynamic Homeschool Plus
  • PBS The War
  • History.com WWII
  • National Archives
  • National WWII Memorial
  • National WWII Museum
  • NPS WWII Memorials
  • Visit Pearl Harbor
  • Pearl Harbor.org
  • Pearl Harbor Historic Sites
  • NPS: Valor in the Pacific
  • History.com Pearl Harbor
  • Holocaust Edu.org
  • Remembering the Holocaust {Scholastic}
  • Aish.com
  • St. Louis
  • US Holocaust Memorial Museum and the Traveling USHMM
  • Holocaust History Project
  • Productive Homeschooling $

Movies

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  • Swing Kids
  • Hart’s War
  • The Pianist
  • Schindler’s List
  • Life is Beautiful
  • Paradise Road
  • Come See the Paradise
  • In Enemy Hands
  • Saving Private Ryan
  • Red Tails
  • The Thin Red Line
  • Windtalkers
  • Flags of our Fathers
  • Memphis Belle
  • The Boy in the Striped Pajamas

Books

  • The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
  • The Hiding Place
  • Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl
  • The Devil’s Arithmetic
  • Number the Stars
  • Hidden: A Child’s Story of the Holocaust
  • Yankee Doodle Gals
  • Early Sunday Morning
  • Meet Molly
  • Catch-22
  • World Wars
  • A History of US: War, Peace, and All That Jazz: 1918-1945 A History of US
  • Terezin: Voices from the Holocaust
  • Baseball Saved Us
  • Terrible Things: An Allegory of the Holocaust
  • Jars of Hope: How One Woman Helped Save 2,500 Children During the Holocaust
  • The Yellow Star: The Legend of King Christian X of Denmark
  • Star of Fear, Star of Hope
  • The Butterfly
  • Passage to Freedom: The Sugihara Story
  • The Little Riders
  • The Harmonica
  • A Father’s Promise
  • The Cats in Krasinski Square
  • The War That Saved My Life
  • War Boy: A Wartime Childhood
  • When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit
  • Benno and the Night of Broken Glass
  • The Bracelet
  • The Whispering Town
  • Six Million Paper Clips: The Making Of A Children’s Holocaust Memorial

How we do history…

You might also like: Raising Readers and How We Study History

We use Tapestry of Grace for our main history studies.

My girls especially love the living books and literature selections. They have a government supplement that is wonderful for high school. Four learning levels means the whole family learns together. Each unit has Internet links to relevant sites (most I’ve never heard of). The Revolutionary War begins at the end of Year 2 (from Byzantium to the New World) and the beginnings of our new nation is in the first unit of Year 3 (from Napoleon to Teddy Roosevelt).

Year 1

Year 2

Year 3

Year 4

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This website uses cookies to improve your experience while you navigate through the website. Out of these, the cookies that are categorized as necessary are stored on your browser as they are essential for the working of basic functionalities of the website. We also use third-party cookies that help us analyze and understand how you use this website. These cookies will be stored in your browser only with your consent. You also have the option to opt-out of these cookies. But opting out of some of these cookies may affect your browsing experience.
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Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly. This category only includes cookies that ensures basic functionalities and security features of the website. These cookies do not store any personal information.
Non-necessary
Any cookies that may not be particularly necessary for the website to function and is used specifically to collect user personal data via analytics, ads, other embedded contents are termed as non-necessary cookies. It is mandatory to procure user consent prior to running these cookies on your website.
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