Thinking about Germany for this year’s Thinking Day celebration? I found a terrific resource online to learn about Guiding in Germany. In Germany, Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts are not in separa…
Horrible Histories Song about the Royal Air Force. Rights to BBC. Original video from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ueFATmD68sg. Used for a WWII history project.
This is "HORRIBLE HISTORIES - The Mummy Song (Awful Egyptians) - YouTube" by Ellen Warburton on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people…
9 collaborative and board games that teach social skills to kids. Includes recommended ages and what skills are targeted for each game
In this post we will be sharing 3 exciting object lessons that can not only be used for teaching Bible truths, but also as a fun science lesson. Object lessons are a enjoyable way to keep your child engaged while learning about the Bible and to help them commit the lesson to memory. These lessons will require minimal s
While the traditions seem similar to those of the western world their favorite food may surprise you. Join us for Christmas in the Philippines!
When you're in a long-term relationship with someone, you make tons of decisions together, both big and small, but there's perhaps no decision more monumental in a relationship than taking the leap and deciding to get married. Marriage might not be…
Come with us as we tour Brazil and find out what funny twist their Nativity plays include in our Christmas Around the World series.
Children's books China: Molly Goes to Shanghai - Enjoy this popular children's book series as Molly and her brother travel to Shanghai, China. Click here for more information.
Use these free printable Parts of a Book Poster & Worksheet to teach your pre-readers about book awareness and concepts of print.
Grab our FREE Outdoor Scavenger Hunt printable to help kids get outdoors and enjoy nature! Grab the FREE nature scavenger hunt for kids!
Excellent list of books about Christmas in Mexico: learn about the traditions and folktales, and the importance of family and faith.
Join us for Christmas in Norway to learn more about some beautiful food and traditions on our tour of Christmas Around the World.
Have you ever wondered how Christmas is celebrated in the lands where Christmas started?
Canada has some interesting foods and holiday traditions. Have you ever heard of mummering, for instance? Learn more about Christmas in Canada.
We love using Unit Studies in our homeschool. I find them so much easier to keep up with and I can schedule
Do you want them to learn about Ontario? This family studied Ontario in their homeschool! Check out all the fun and educational Ontario unit study activities!
This homeschool unit study about potatoes is perfect to center around the book, Nory Ryan's Song by Patricia Riley Giff (a book recommended in Sonlight Curriculum's reading lists for late elementary/early middle school). It would
Once upon a time, you'd solidify your adolescent relationship with a shout-out in an AIM profile. Now that we're in the era of "Facebook official" and selfie statuses, it's pretty clear that the comfort we take in being able to definitively label…
Looking for fun hand clapping games? Awesome hand clapping songs to teach kids, students or camp attendees, with videos and printable lyrics!
Congratulations to Natalie from Afterschool for Smarty Pants on winning my latest giveaway! Today we are "traveling" to Jamaica with Around the World with 12 Dishes. As usual we have been exploring Jamaica with stories, books, music and food. We will be spending a little extra time in Jamaica since we are joining a wonderful group of Multicultural Kid Blogs to present Christmas in Different Lands and have chosen Christmas in Jamaica which we will post about on December 23rd! I hope you will come back to learn more about Christmas in Jamaica and a huge thank you to Sherika from Saturday Market in Jamaica who is helping me with my research and giving me some recipes to present this to you!! Source: By Directorate of Intelligence, CIA [Public domain or Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons Jamaica is an island country in the Caribbean Sea. Christopher Columbus claimed it for the Spanish in 1494. When he arrived in Jamaica there was more than 200 villages of indigenous people living there. The indigenous people are the Taino and the Arawak. The Taino still inhabited the island when the British took command in 1655.When the British took over, the Spanish colonists freed their slaves and left. The slaves joined the Taino in the mountains. The group was called the Maroons and they fought the British throughout the 18th century. Under British rule Jamaica became the world's largest sugar exporter as well as the largest slave-dependent country. After the abolition of slavery, the British brought in Indian and Chinese indentured servants to do the work. Their descendents still live there. Doll my grandparents brought me from their trip to Jamaica In the beginning of the 19th century the ratio of black people to white people in Jamaica was 20 to 1. Jamaica gained its independence in 1962. It is a parliamentary democracy and a constitutional monarchy. Queen Elizabeth II is the ruling monarch and head of state. Her appointed representative in the country is the Governor-General of Jamaica, currently Sir Patrick Allen. The climate in Jamaica is tropical. The official language is English. However Jamaicans speak an English-African Creole language known as Jamaican Patois. Reggae music originated in Jamaica along with some other types. Reggae music helped spread knowledge of Jamaican Patois. A bowl of our sweet potato pone Ok, now onto our recipe. We made Sweet Potato Pone. The book, Cooking the Caribbean Way by Cheryl Davidson Kaufman said it was a popular dish for Christmas morning, but all the references I have seen on-line say it is a favorite dessert. I, of course, returned the book by mistake before making it, so we used a recipe I found on-line at Real Jamaican Vacations. Sweet Potato Pone 1 lb sweet potato, grated (this is about one large sweet potato) 1 cup flour (we used gluten-free) 1 cup evaporated milk 2 cups coconut milk (we used canned) 1 1/4 cups brown sugar 1 tsp ginger 1 tsp cinnamon 1 tsp vanilla 1/2 tsp nutmeg 1 cup grated coconut 1 cup raisins 2 tbsp margarine Combine sweet potato with milk, sugar, flour and spices. Mix well. Add raisins, coconut and margarine. Mix thoroughly and taste for sweetness. Add more sugar to taste. Pour into a greased baking pan and bake at 370F for approximately 1 hour, or until center is set.It took 70 minutes for us. At first we tried shredding our sweet potato. However after we mixed it all together, I realized it need to be finer. At this point Hazel had lost interest (well more like lost energy due to being sick), so I put it back in the food processor all mixed together and got it more grated instead of shredded. This seemed to do the trick. Hazel helped peel the sweet potato and shred it. Then she helped measure (including packing the brown sugar down) and stir it all together. We had to pretend we worked in a restaurant which apparently needs new employees since she kept going off to talk to the ones not doing their jobs. Oh, the imagination of an almost five-year-old. Hazel said she liked the pone, but did not eat much of it. Of course she didn't eat much of anything that day since she was sick. Steve and I both liked it a lot. Here are the books we used to look at recipes, crafts and more. Then we enjoyed stories from these books. Hazel especially liked the Anansi stories. It is funny the difference a year makes. She did not like the Annasi stories when we read some of them from Africa. Finally we found some Jamaican music to enjoy on these CD's. Much of the music is reggae or calypso, but it is fun music! For some more Jamaican recipes stop by on December 23rd and check out these great posts. If you have a Jamaican recipe to share, please link it up. Also you can get the Jamaican passport pages and placemat. Plus join us next month as we "travel" to Peru! Make sure you check out: A Caribbean Rapunzel A Caribbean Cinderella
Learning how to let go so you can get over someone you love after a breakup is never easy, so we found the best healing quotes about moving on to help uplift you as you nurse your broken heart.
Learn how to turn a paper plate into a colourful woven bowl to hold trinkets and treasures. Easy step-by-step instructions and video tutorial.
This Colonial History unit study was so much fun for our family! The unit uses living literature, hands-on projects, research and notebooking pages.
Looking for some great books about Ancient Egypt? Check out this living books list that is full of Ancient Egypt chapter books for older kids!
You can be a spy and make your very own Spy Decoder Wheel. Here are all the details on this fun and sneaky craft for kids.
