I CAN'T WAIT!!!
Oh, yes, I am getting to go this year!!
DH is taking some time off work to be home with the kidlets and I, along with 4 other homeschool moms/friends are hitting the road to Cincinnati!!
This is the first time for any of us to attend a homeschool event of this size. so we are all looking forward to attending the seminars and workshops, listening to different speakers, and actually getting to see and touch curriculum that we have wanted to check out but never had the opportunity to do so "in person" shall we say.
And have you seen the list of speakers that they have lined up so far... So looking forward to Cathy Duffy, Susan Bauer and Jim Weiss (why he's the reason my kids love history, thanks to his wonderful readings of Story of the World 1)...
Well I can't say much else, other than I am truly looking forward to the topics list when it come out!!
So check it out, April 8-10, 2010 at Cincinnati Homeschool Convention
Spending Our Days With Learning, Family, and Fun ~
Saturday, January 30, 2010
Tuesday, January 5, 2010
Christmas in Sweden
This year we decided to take Christmas time to do a unit on Christmas in another country. We wrote down a list of countries we wanted to learn about and chose one from the list...
SWEDEN was the lucky country chosen...
We used a FREE unit study from HSS called "Christmas Around the World" as a guide and for lapbook pieces.
We read several books including:
"Christmas Around the World" by Emily Kelley
"Kirsten's Surprise" by Janet Beeler Shaw
"Annika's Secret Wish" by Beverly Lewis
We ate rice pudding and dressed DD up as a St. Lucia girl after reading about the tradition. Using an old sheet and a red scarf for her waist for the dress, we then made her headdress out of a paper plate and with leaves glued to it and paper candles... She loved it... We also made a cone hat out of construction paper and put some star stickers on it for DS ....
And the best part was getting a package in the mail from Sweden with some goodies in it... My friend from work had a friend in Sweden and an e-mail later, we were receiving the best part of our trip...
The kids each got a straw ornament, some wonderful chocolates and candy, and a letter with pictures about the holidays, Knut's Day, and St. Lucia....
SWEDEN was the lucky country chosen...
We used a FREE unit study from HSS called "Christmas Around the World" as a guide and for lapbook pieces.
We read several books including:
"Christmas Around the World" by Emily Kelley
"Kirsten's Surprise" by Janet Beeler Shaw
"Annika's Secret Wish" by Beverly Lewis
We ate rice pudding and dressed DD up as a St. Lucia girl after reading about the tradition. Using an old sheet and a red scarf for her waist for the dress, we then made her headdress out of a paper plate and with leaves glued to it and paper candles... She loved it... We also made a cone hat out of construction paper and put some star stickers on it for DS ....
And the best part was getting a package in the mail from Sweden with some goodies in it... My friend from work had a friend in Sweden and an e-mail later, we were receiving the best part of our trip...
The kids each got a straw ornament, some wonderful chocolates and candy, and a letter with pictures about the holidays, Knut's Day, and St. Lucia....
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