Election 2012 Homeschool

"For the LORD is high above the nations;

his glory is higher than the heavens."

~Psalm 113:4 (NLT)~

Flag flying here in Pampa, TX.

 

 

This Election was I believe a tough one, but I know only one thing,

God is still in control, He is still King of all, and He still loves us.

So no matter how the outcome was going to be, the kids and I

had fun learning all about the election day.

 

My little voters.

 

We made an "Election Board" with all the info and pictures we

could find and paste...we even made our own ballot box and

voted that morning on a movie, game, snack and supper for that

evening. :-)

 

Our "Election board"

 

Then the day after we took our map of America and colored it in for

our electoral map/polls. We have one colorful map now to put in

our "Homeschool Portfolio" to save and enjoy in our homeschooling

journey.....that will be a blog in the future, Lord willing! ;-)

 

Our electoral map.

 

 



History in the Barr Home

Never did care for History when I was growing up, had to sit and read all by myself
and so I didn't learn too much of it...which I regret, BUT Lord Willing not for my
kiddos. I wanted a History book we could ALL enjoy together, so after much
searching and reading reviews I found "The Mystery of History" by: Linda
Lacour Hobar. It has lessons for the younger, middle and older students which
makes it an A+ in my book. We are enjoying it, I tweaked it to fit our best schedule
and that's the beauty of homeschooling right? :-)

Getting the lessons ready

 

First, we do a week of History then the next week we do Science (plan to blog of

that soon) this has worked well for us so we've stuck to it.

Then, our "timeline"(the time period of that thing or person, like "Creation 4004

B.C.") has to be small for NO room in the camper, so I've gone through the book

and picked out just specific things/people to put on the "timeline", and we put ours

as a banner hanging across the window.

 

Working on our timeline

 

Our banner timeline

 

And we may take a day and just work on specific things as Art, like the study of the

"Stonehenge" I even got my kindle out and looked up pictures for us to admire.

I'm still in awe over these giant rocks they moved without machines...

So, how do y'all study History?

 



 Making our own Stonehenge