Review of SchoolhouseTeachers.com Yearly Membership

I don’t know what I was expecting, but I was blown away when I entered the SchoolhouseTeachers.com world to review their yearly membership.

​I felt like I Alice dropping into Wonderland: amazed and a little overwhelmed.

Where would I start?

I wanted to see EVERYTHING! Every photo, every course, every video, and every lesson plan was beautiful and professional-looking.

I decided to investigate high school online classes first. I picked out several courses including Spanish I, an online elective, They Lived for God, and American History: Columbus to 1914 with Socratic Method.
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Next, I headed to a focused area.

Since I’m a history buff, I chose history. I felt like a kid in a candy shop. So many choices, so little time. 

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Focused Area: History

For younger children, my favorite course was American History in Picture Books by Cindi Allison because that’s the way I taught my children when they were little. Using classic picture books like Leif the Lucky by Ingri and Edgar Parin D’Aulaire, Squanto’s Journey by Joseph Bruchac, and The Babe and I by David A. Adler, we explore history by reading picture books and engaging in hands-on fun. I am planning to do this course on Grandma Day with my grandsons.

Delving into Classical Archaeology with Regan Barr, I was excited because so much of what we believe about ancient cultures is based on archaeology, but it has limitations, too. This course doesn’t just focus on history, but how archaeology is used to learn about history and what the limitations of archaeology are. The reading was interesting with lots of color photographs. Review questions and ideas for further exploration were at the end of each unit. My favorite part was digging into Pompeii, a fascinating trip to the past when a volcano explored rapidly freezing an entire city in time. We can also read about it from Pliney the Younger. This material stirred up a greater hunger to learn more!
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Remembering my sweet grandsons, I decided to head to the Preschool Playground to get more ideas for Grandma Days. 

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Preschool Playground

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