jenn&charles Posted August 9, 2014 Share Posted August 9, 2014 I’ve been in a frenzy working on my geography curriculum and am happy to announce that it’s finished! I may still add new materials as I come across them or tweak a little this or that, but it’s ready-to-go for those of you who would like to use it. http://www.guesthollow.com/homeschool/geography/geography.html Let me know if any of you have any suggestions / feedback, etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snow Posted August 9, 2014 Share Posted August 9, 2014 I haven't checked it out thoroughly but I was ecstatic when I saw it and at first glance it looks awesome. Thank you so much for providing it to everyone! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ewe Mama Posted August 9, 2014 Share Posted August 9, 2014 Wait a minute! You were too busy canning all those peaches! How did you find the time to finish two huge projects in one week? More to the point, where did you find the energy? Stop doing so much, Jenn! You're making the rest of us look bad. :D Thank you for sharing your great curriculum with us. As usual, it looks terrific. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RosieCotton Posted August 9, 2014 Share Posted August 9, 2014 Thanks for sharing this - what a nice resource! I've picked and pulled from a number of these resources you've listed, I have some of these books and get others from the library. I am adding the history pockets this year for my 2nd and 3rd grader, and I love the world map you had linked. We are going to do our first few lapbooks this year, I got a few from CurrClick's sale (more than we needed), and will check these out as well. Not that I need another curriculum to print off and get ready, I'll be checking it out more thoroughly over the weekend. I feel this is an area we always need to do more in, and this will help me get it done a little easier. The photos of the American History projects looks fun! I'll be adding some along the way of SOTW as we get there. Fun stuff! :hurray: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raining Pineapples Posted August 9, 2014 Share Posted August 9, 2014 That looks wonderful! Thank you for sharing. Now I'm thinking about completely ditching our plan and trying it out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sewingmama Posted August 9, 2014 Share Posted August 9, 2014 Thankyou, thank you, thank you. I will be starting this as soon as I can get the things together. I'm dumping formal history as it is too much for my kids and going with this instead. It looks so fun. I'm going to use it with all three of my kids but add in some lighter things for my 5 yo. Can't wait. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
idnib Posted August 9, 2014 Share Posted August 9, 2014 This is wonderful! :hurray: And I concur with Ewe Mama...where do you get the energy? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
idnib Posted August 9, 2014 Share Posted August 9, 2014 I love the Guest Hollow banner. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sdobis Posted August 9, 2014 Share Posted August 9, 2014 I've been working on my daughter's geography plans for next year as well and am using ma y of the same resources. Since I don't have it all scheduled out at this point, I am thankful to use your schedule to help. Thank you!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alicia64 Posted August 9, 2014 Share Posted August 9, 2014 Which would you recommend for sixth graders? Would I get two books or one? Can you link your website? I have twins. Alley Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teeniebeenie6 Posted August 9, 2014 Share Posted August 9, 2014 Thank you, thank you, thank you!! It looks terrific!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
73349 Posted August 9, 2014 Share Posted August 9, 2014 Pinned it! Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jenn&charles Posted August 10, 2014 Author Share Posted August 10, 2014 Wait a minute! You were too busy canning all those peaches! How did you find the time to finish two huge projects in one week? More to the point, where did you find the energy? Stop doing so much, Jenn! You're making the rest of us look bad. :D Thank you for sharing your great curriculum with us. As usual, it looks terrific. :) LOL...I'm not sure where the energy came from. It was more of a "gotta get it done" thing so I just pushed through. ;-) I think the geography curriculum is a new record for me though... it took me 5 days to put together working from the morning until about 7 p.m. every evening. Makes me think I should put more things like that together and post them. I've got the curriculum making groove down, lol. I think the next one I want to make is a science curriculum for little kids - something like water/land/air. Or famous scientists and their discoveries or???? We'll see. Right now I'm going to focus on trying to get my book finished and all of the curriculum I want to create for it (it's about the seasons with a bit of geography and culture thrown in). I STILL have peaches to deal with and I've been canning most of today. It's getting ooooooooooooooold! Someone please come and finish them! It's 8:26 p.m. and I'm still waiting for a last batch to finish....UGH. I think I'll make Otter cook dinner tonight. I don't want to even LOOK at that kitchen. Anyway, thanks for the curriculum love...makes me feel all warm and fuzzy...oh, wait, that's just a piece of peach... :p Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jenn&charles Posted August 10, 2014 Author Share Posted August 10, 2014 Thankyou, thank you, thank you. I will be starting this as soon as I can get the things together. I'm dumping formal history as it is too much for my kids and going with this instead. It looks so fun. I'm going to use it with all three of my kids but add in some lighter things for my 5 yo. Can't wait. If you want, you can share some of the things you come up with for the 5 yo. I could add them in for everyone else with a younger kiddo (when I have the time). :-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jenn&charles Posted August 10, 2014 Author Share Posted August 10, 2014 This is wonderful! :hurray: And I concur with Ewe Mama...where do you get the energy? Energy? What energy? I feel DEAD, lol... I need a movie. And popcorn. No...chocolate. Yes...chocolate will do nicely. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jenn&charles Posted August 10, 2014 Author Share Posted August 10, 2014 I love the Guest Hollow banner. Thank you!! Do you mean the one on the website or the one for the geography? The one on the website has part of a scene from my new book and is all hand-drawn by me. I'm having to learn a LOT in that dept. though as I'm entirely self-taught and don't really know what I'm doing. It's more of bumbling around and probably taking 20 times longer than I should to come up with what I do. It makes me happy though! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jenn&charles Posted August 10, 2014 Author Share Posted August 10, 2014 Which would you recommend for sixth graders? Would I get two books or one? Can you link your website? I have twins. Alley Sorry...I'm probably being dense but when you ask what would I recommend - what do you mean specifically?... and which book are you referring to? Here's a link to my website: http://www.guesthollow.com/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaderbee Posted August 10, 2014 Share Posted August 10, 2014 Thank you!! Do you mean the one on the website or the one for the geography? The one on the website has part of a scene from my new book and is all hand-drawn by me. I'm having to learn a LOT in that dept. though as I'm entirely self-taught and don't really know what I'm doing. It's more of bumbling around and probably taking 20 times longer than I should to come up with what I do. It makes me happy though! That is amazing. I love your style. What new book? And with the geography, did it take the place of history the year you taught it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jessicamcc Posted August 10, 2014 Share Posted August 10, 2014 Wow, Jenn, generous as always! Looks great; thank you!!!!! :hurray: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jenn&charles Posted August 10, 2014 Author Share Posted August 10, 2014 That is amazing. I love your style. What new book? And with the geography, did it take the place of history the year you taught it? Thanks so much for the compliment about my style. It's taking me awhile to perfect it and make something that is consistent (and recognizable as something *I* did) but it's coming along. The book is about the seasons. I don't have a title for it yet, but I have all of the text written and have about 11 pages illustrated. It will be about 47 pages long (counting the title and end pages, etc.) It's a mix of a comic book style and text and features a homeschooled family (Abigail is the big sister, Henry is the younger brother and Grace is the adopted itty bitty sister - oh, and there is a dog Beowulf (who is a fox terrier and based on a real dog I had as a child). Here is page spread (rough draft) that I pasted in another thread. You can see that I used Beowulf in my geography banner, lol. I love mixing topics, so while this book is heavy on science, it also features a bit of geography and cultures. I'm going to make some curriculum to go with it that can be purchased and downloaded on my site. The book itself will be sold on Amazon in both print and e-book formats. And yes, when I taught geography, it took the place of history that year. We covered bits of history via the countries we studied. It was a really worthwhile year and I almost wish I had another little one to do it all over again with (ALMOST wish, lol...). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LivingHope Posted August 10, 2014 Share Posted August 10, 2014 I really love everything you share. Thank you, Jenn. The new geography lesson plans look exciting. You have a neat mix of resources. I was stuck looking at the Buried Alive book about the miners in Chile when I was suppose to be making dinner. Amazing story. Lots of books requested from the library already. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
idnib Posted August 10, 2014 Share Posted August 10, 2014 Thank you!! Do you mean the one on the website or the one for the geography? The one on the website has part of a scene from my new book and is all hand-drawn by me. I'm having to learn a LOT in that dept. though as I'm entirely self-taught and don't really know what I'm doing. It's more of bumbling around and probably taking 20 times longer than I should to come up with what I do. It makes me happy though! The one on the web site. It just feels comforting to look at. I wish I could be in that scene. I can't believe you're self-taught! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poiema Posted August 10, 2014 Share Posted August 10, 2014 I hope I'm not being too forward, but I kind of love you! :) We used your American history last year when we gave up on BF, and I plan on using your site to supplement SotW 1 this year. I will probably use this at some point too. I only wish this was around when we did our year of world geography. You are seriously awesome! Thank you! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gerka528 Posted August 10, 2014 Share Posted August 10, 2014 It looks fantastic!! Thank you so much for sharing! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Murrayshire Posted August 10, 2014 Share Posted August 10, 2014 Awesome! But all your curriculum is that way, so it's no surprise to me! Thanks again! 😉 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mayaangel Posted August 11, 2014 Share Posted August 11, 2014 thank you so much for this!!!! and the book you are working on looks amazing - I'll be looking for your announcement on it being finished! self taught eh? I love it! :-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stripe Posted August 11, 2014 Share Posted August 11, 2014 I need a movie. And popcorn. No...chocolate. Yes...chocolate will do nicely.If it's not going to be a cupcake, it'd better be tuna oatmeal! Seriously, though, thanks for sharing all your work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sewingmama Posted August 11, 2014 Share Posted August 11, 2014 If you want, you can share some of the things you come up with for the 5 yo. I could add them in for everyone else with a younger kiddo (when I have the time). :-) Sure, I can do that. I'm not as speedy as you though...I'm only half way through figuring it out. Was thinking of adding them to my blog as I went along but I can send you a list once I'm done as I'm planning on doing the curriculum over 2 weeks for each country and I'm sure you don't want it in 2 weekly installments LOL. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kelly1730 Posted August 11, 2014 Share Posted August 11, 2014 I am in the middle of planning my 7th graders geography course and came on here to ask about travel videos. The Globe Trekker ones look like they will do nicely and I appreciate you "previewing" them for us. Thank you for sharing all your hard work! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jenn&charles Posted August 11, 2014 Author Share Posted August 11, 2014 I was stuck looking at the Buried Alive book about the miners in Chile when I was suppose to be making dinner. Amazing story. LOL...I thought that was a neat book too. I'll probably check it out from the library for Otter, just for the heck of it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jenn&charles Posted August 11, 2014 Author Share Posted August 11, 2014 self taught eh? It's my adult version of homeschooling, lol... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jenn&charles Posted August 11, 2014 Author Share Posted August 11, 2014 If it's not going to be a cupcake, it'd better be tuna oatmeal! Seriously, though, thanks for sharing all your work. I wish it was a cupcake...We actually have a new bakery in town that makes delicious cupcakes. Last week my husband went there and bought me a mini-black forest cake with real whipped cream and now you've made me want another one. ;-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jenn&charles Posted August 11, 2014 Author Share Posted August 11, 2014 Sure, I can do that. I'm not as speedy as you though...I'm only half way through figuring it out. Was thinking of adding them to my blog as I went along but I can send you a list once I'm done as I'm planning on doing the curriculum over 2 weeks for each country and I'm sure you don't want it in 2 weekly installments LOL. Thanks! Just send it to me whenever it works for you. I'll have to go check out your blog. :-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jenn&charles Posted August 11, 2014 Author Share Posted August 11, 2014 I am in the middle of planning my 7th graders geography course and came on here to ask about travel videos. The Globe Trekker ones look like they will do nicely and I appreciate you "previewing" them for us. Thank you for sharing all your hard work! Just letting you know we didn't watch ALL of them though, so be careful. They are great videos and my kids loved them, but there are a few that feature nudity (like one on France - I think ...and possibly some others). They also sometimes feature things I don't necessarily want to promote (like drinking alcohol or whatever) but we watched the shows together so I could comment on things as they came up. I found it helpful to look at the comments on Amazon. Usually people will remark if a particular episode features something outrageous that is better skipped...I don't think there are a lot of them like that though. Another good option are the Rick Steve videos (if you can stand his dorkiness). He visits a lot of places and often gets to go inside people's houses, etc. so you really get a feel for a place and the people that live there through some of his shows. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shellydon Posted August 11, 2014 Share Posted August 11, 2014 Yay! Love your stuff! Have used it for the last 2 years. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ruthie in MS Posted August 13, 2014 Share Posted August 13, 2014 Wow! That looks awesome! It even looks better than the boring PAID world geography curriculum that we used last year! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hwin Posted August 15, 2014 Share Posted August 15, 2014 Thank you! My 8 year old is a geography buff and I'm trying to find him an appropriate program, but it's hard to get a feel just looking at Amazon/RR descriptions. And it's not 10 years old so all the links will be fresh!! :laugh: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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