In an effort to make it easier to find my history/government notebooking and lapbooking sets, I’m putting all the links on one page. Just click on the images to be taken to the sets. Notebooking Pages Sets Lapbooking Sets
Tag: Government
To continue on with prepping for our upcoming American government study, I went ahead and created notebooking pages for the Vice Presidents to go along with the President notebooking pages. There is a page for each of the Vice Presidents as well as a couple of pages for Vice President facts and copywork for the oath of office. The Vice Presidents notebooking pages are now part of the Marine Corps Nomads Homeschool Resource Library. They’re still free, but they’re now hosted right here. All of the free homeschool resources are available in one easy-access location. You can sign up for…
Wednesday morning, March 6, 2013, at 11:47 am EST, Senator Rand Paul started a talking filibuster in Congress. Being a homeschooler, this quickly became an opportunity to teach Munchkin about a filibuster and discuss what was going on in Congress today. I explained to her that the Senator had to remember to say, “without yielding the floor” every time he wanted to allow questions or supporting remarks because he had to hold the floor to maintain the filibuster. That also meant that he wasn’t allowed to take any bathroom breaks which made his filibuster even more impressive. What is a…
Constitution Unit Study
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Munchkin is learning about United States History and United States Government this year in school. This week, she’s finishing up with the overview of American Government. Starting next week, we will begin the more in-depth look into the founding of our nation and the structure of our government. The first thing we will be doing is a month long unit study on the United States Constitution. I was thrilled to see that Homeschool Resource of the Day is having a constitution theme week, so I’ll be gathering up those free resources as they are posted on their website. In addition,…
This post contains affiliate links. If you purchase through these links, I will receive a small commission which helps me continue to provide these resources for free. I made this United States Presidents Lapbook as an overview of the Presidents for my daughter. The main book that we are using for this study is Our Country’s Presidents. We are also using the History Channels series The Presidents. Images of the Assembled United States Presidents Lapbook United States Presidents Lapbook Activities Presidential Trivia : Fun trivia game Presidential Trivia Pocket and Why a President? : Place to store trivia cards. Why…