With the release of Disney’s new Alice in Wonderland movie it seemed very fitting for our book club to explore this classic story. Our journey began by reading the story of Alice in Wonderland . Since our book club began several months ago my children have started to understand how authors take the original story [...]
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The Jungle Book (Learning)
February 2nd, 2010 · No Comments · Books, Magic Kingdom, Prep & Learning
We’ve wrapped up our learning activities for our January book club selection of “The Jungle Book”. The kids’ reaction to our new book club format exceeded all of our expectations! Here are a few additional things we did and learned on our journey – We allowed each family to select a version of the book [...]
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The Jungle Book (Prep)
January 16th, 2010 · No Comments · Books, Magic Kingdom, Prep & Learning
Last fall I worked with a couple of other homeschool families to start a book club. The goals were simple – to introduce our children to classic literature and to incorporate a writing/public speaking element (with each book we would introduce a different writing activity for the children to complete and share with the group). [...]
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The Liberty Bell
September 30th, 2009 · No Comments · Magic Kingdom
This week our American History studies take us to Philadelphia, PA during the summer of 1776. For an introduction to the city’s history and many famous landmarks we turned to one of our favorite tour guides Dave Stotts and his Drive Thru History series. For this lesson we watched “Episode 6: The Founding Fathers of [...]
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We the People — Happy Constitution Day!
September 17th, 2009 · No Comments · Magic Kingdom, Resources
“We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.” On September 17, [...]
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Living the vision
September 9th, 2009 · No Comments · Magic Kingdom
The other day I was doing some research, getting ready for another field trip to WDW, and I came across the words on the Walt Disney World dedication plaque (located in the Magic Kingdom). Here is what it says: WALT DISNEY WORLD is a tribute to the philosophy and life of Walter Elias Disney… and [...]
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Hall of Presidents – Mr. Washington
September 5th, 2009 · No Comments · Magic Kingdom
This year we are studying early United States history. We began with the colonial period and are currently focusing on the issues leading up to the American Revolution. To support our studies we are participating in an American History co-op and using the amazing materials from The Time Travelers Series. We’ve spent quite a bit [...]
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Cinderella around the world
January 30th, 2009 · No Comments · Magic Kingdom
I’m currently teaching a geography class for homeschoolers. This week we were learning about Ireland. We spent time talking about Saint Patrick, shamrocks and Irish dancing, and we ate some tasty scones. Each week I encourage the children to bring in information about each country to share. One of my students brought in her book “The Irish [...]
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