New shoes...and a new BUG?

Here's my Lily...

Do you like her fancy new shoes? Hey, they even match her shirt!

She made those herself. Well, with a little help from her Grandmother! It was her history project for the week from Days of Knights and Damsels.

Here's a pic of Granddaughter and Grandmother...





and finally...

A very strange looking bug that I'm told "Just fell from the sky".

Anyone know what type of bug this is? Jasmine keeps telling us it's a caterpillar. :)

History Copywork

I created some copywork pages to go along with History Odyssey 1 - Middle Ages using a Getty-Dubay font from Education Fontware. A lot of the quotes that I used came from Trivium Academy's SOTW2 copywork and other sources.

Here's a sample...

If anyone is interested you can download the pdf document here.

*Here's hoping that I'm allowed to post that document. If not, please let me know*

Our timeline book

I'm so excited about our timeline! What can I say, I'm one of those people that gets all excited over anything that I work hard to create. Yeah!

So of course I have to post pictures of my work. :)

When thinking about doing a timeline I decided that a book would work best for us. I decided that I liked the notebook timeline from Homeschool In The Woods the best. They have a whole page that shows pictures and gives directions on how to make many different types of timelines. The one I made is about have way down the page, number 2 under Creating a timeline notebook. I printed each time period on different colored cardstock. I also added the time period to the top right corner of each page. It took me awhile to figure out how to do this. :) But in the end, I made mine using Excel. I made four pages, one for each time period, and printed each sheet separately changing the date each time. Yeah!

Here's a few pics.

Here's a page from the Middle Ages printed on blue cardstock!

*warning - the enlarged photos are really large, not sure how to fix it*

And a page from Ancient Times printed on tan cardstock.

After Lily gets some of her timeline figures in the book I'll post more pics!

FREE History Schedule

I found this goody on the WellTrainedMind boards (which is now a forum, *whispers* go check it out) .


Lunablog.net has free lesson plans that you can download. I think it is so wonderful that she is offering these for free. The lesson plan is called Mosaic Introduction to World History Part 1: Myths, Maps, and Marvels. She has a couple different versions. One using Story of the World: Ancient Times the other using A Little History of the World by E.H. Gombrich. She also gives you a choice of downloading the 'plain' version or the 'prehistory and evolution' version. How awesome is that?!

The only thing that makes me sad, *pouts* is that we're getting ready to start the Middle Ages so I can't use this lesson plan yet. But I am saving it for when it's Jasmine's turn for Ancient History.