Thankfulness
We used our hands and feet to draw outlines, then assembled these Turkey’s for a Thanksgiving craft.
If You Books November 27, 2008
My family enjoys these books very much. We are planning a trip to the Historical Williamsburg and these books have been great in assuring we will get the most out of our trip. Check out the other books offered with the “If You” series at
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_b?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=IF+YOU&x=0&y=0
Some of the books we are also reading-
The Little Man in the Map November 23, 2008
My family received this book yesterday. I am looking forward to incorporating the United States Puzzle into this Map : ) Next week’s school studies.
This site also has a lot of supplements to this book
My Sunshine November 21, 2008
Sunshine is officially a homeschooler “again” : )
She was homeschooled while in Kindergarten then we moved to another state and we decided to put her in public school for first grade- BIG MISTAKE! So, she is home with me again as of today.
Hey, at least we can say we gave it a try…
Imaginative
Lego Boy, Fairy Girl, and Sunshine pretending to be in a race- looks like Fairy Girl is winning : 0
Famous People Homeschooled November 21, 2008
Presidents:
John Quincy Adams
William Henry Harrison
Thomas Jefferson
James Madison
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
George Washington
Woodrow Wilson
John Adams (attended Harvard University at 15/ 2nd President of the United States)
Grover Cleveland
Andrew Jackson
Abraham Lincoln
Theodore Roosevelt
Scientists:
Albert Einstein
Booker T. Washington
Inventors:
Alexander Graham Bell (invented the telephone)
Thomas Edison (perfected the electric light bulb)
Benjamin Franklin (invented the lightning rod)
Eli Whitney (invented the cotton gin)
Wright Brothers: Orville and Wilbur Wright (built the first “successful” airplane)
Generals/ Military Leaders:
Robert E. Lee
Stonewall Jackson
John Paul Jones (Father of the American Navy)
Composers:
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Artists:
Leonardo da Vinci
Claude Monet
Statesmen:
Benjamin Franklin
Patrick Henry
Henry Clay
Winston Churchill
William Penn
Alexander Hamilton
Religious Leaders:
Joan of Arc
Writers:
Charles Dickens
C.S. Lewis
Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain)
Robert Frost (Pulitzer Prize Winning Poet)
Beatrix Potter (author of Peter Rabbit)
Walt Whitman
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Others:
Abigail Adams (wife of John Adams, mother of John Quincy Adams)
Susan B. Anthony (Reformer and Women’s Rights Leader)
Clara Barton (Founded the Red Cross)
Florence Nightingale (Nurse)
John Witherspoon (President of Princeton University)
Dakota Fanning (child Actress)
Jennifer Love Hewitt
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