(The group is currently closed to new registrations but you can still read about each book in this post.)Welcome to the 2024-2025 Teen Book Club! This book club is geared to students ages 10 and up but all ages are welcome to our party each month! The cost will be $20 per family for the… Continue reading Teen Book Club
Welcome to the 2024-2025 Teen Nature Club! Membership for the 2024-2025 school year is $30 per family. This will include a folder with information about each month's topic of study. Students are required to bring their own nature journaling notebook, pencils, paints, etc. See this Amazon link for suggested tools of travel watercolor set, journal,… Continue reading Teen Nature Club
Back in the fall I went to Trader Joes and bought flowers to do a dissection with some friends (Here is a PDF guide) and decided that since we had flowers growing this spring we would revisit our lesson and learn more about the iris! Here is the video I used to guide our students… Continue reading Iris (Tulip, Lily, Daffodil)
This book came recommended for a book that takes place in Asia. The characters and story revolve around a family in a Bangladesh village. It worked great for our geography as well because we spent a lot of time looking at the history and geography in India with the book Kim. With Rickshaw Girl, we… Continue reading Rickshaw Girl
This is a book that is going to bring out lots of strong emotions from your kids! My 14 year old is a perfect age for the themes and discussions of the book but I feel like my 12 year old is still a little too literal and not quite at the age where the… Continue reading Animal Farm
The Bronze Bow has been on my to-read list for too long! I'm glad we took the time to read and study this award winning book. It allowed us to go more in depth in our geography studies of the Middle East and also some Biblical history. In fact, I have a lot of resources… Continue reading Bronze Bow
I went into this book without knowing anything about it other than many people in our homeschooling groups had recommended it as a fun middle grade read aloud. It did not disappoint but those who may be sensitive to some topics may want to research first! (This is a great review with some discussion questions… Continue reading Greenglass House
I'm going off script today since we spent a week in Idaho and part of our nature study was walking the Snake River Canyon and noticing the different plants growing in "Magic Valley!" There is sagebrush everywhere and when it is really windy it's so fun to see the tumbleweeds blowing over the roads! I… Continue reading Sagebrush
I love when our nature study comes about in a natural way! This month, while we were on a walk through our local nature trail, I looked down and saw some sycamore seed pods that had dropped near the creek. I called the kids over to see what they observed and Christian was close when… Continue reading Sycamore
Back in December of 2022 I made a post of our nature class on the Cedar Glades of Tennessee (Click here to view the post!) I wanted to revisit this plant to add our 3 uses to our nature journals in keeping with our school year focus in plant foraging. We live in an area… Continue reading Eastern Red Cedar
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