High School exams to go along with The Good & the Beautiful History Year 1

(This post contains links to products in my TeachersPayTeachers.com store, which help to support this blog. Thanks!) Once I made the decision to continue using The Good and the Beautiful History into high school, I knew I had to come up with assessments. I have posted before about the unit projects and the unit exams…

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Tests for The Good and the Beautiful History Year 3

(This post contains links to my TeachersPayTeachers.com store. Purchases made help support this blog. Thanks!) Now that my oldest in a freshman in high school, I have had to step up my assessments game for history. I chose to continue with our history courses from The Good and the Beautiful for high school for the…

Unit Projects with The Good and the Beautiful History Year 3

(This post contains links to products in my TeachersPayTeachers.com store. Proceeds help support this blog. Thank you!) We just finished Unit 3 of TG&TB History Year 3. Because my oldest is now in ninth grade and using this as her history credit, I assign unit projects as part of her grade. To help with the…

Using The Good and the Beautiful History Year 3 for elementary, middle, and high school

(This post contains links. Some are just links to cool resources that I like and use, and I receive no compensation for sharing them. Purchases made through the links to my Teachers Pay Teachers store do help to support this blog. Thank you!) For the past two years, we have used The Good and the…

Using Paper Dolls in History

As part of our The Good & The Beautiful History Year 2 curriculum, I read aloud from a chapter book of historical fiction for whichever time period we are studying (ancient history, Middle Ages, explorers, modern history). We have discovered that paper dolls are a great addition during history read aloud time! I have several…

Field Trip: Homeschool Day at Bullock Museum

On this gorgeous February day, we packed our picnic basket and braved Austin traffic to attend the Homeschool Day event at Bullock Museum. The event offered free admission to the museum. Parking was $8 for the attached garage, so still not a bad price to pay for our family of five to spend a day…

Friday Game Day

On Fridays, we take a break from our regular curriculum in spelling and math. In spelling, we play Spelling City games at http://www.spellingcity.com. The website has free and paid-premium options, however we have always just used the free games. It is easy to add lists. In fact, at the beginning of the year, I just…

State Bar of Texas Educator Resources

Remember that Texas requirement that homeschoolers must teach citizenship? The State Bar of Texas has several excellent resource websites for educators. With President's Day around the corner, the Vote for Me! site comes in handy. This website has short little bios of famous citizens, including George Washington and Abe Lincoln on the Presidents Day link…