at home, on fire - Day Three of Year Seven

at home, on fire

Sep. 5, 2007

Day Three of Year Seven

I completely forgot to mention what we are doing for Geography this year ... going over (ad nauseum) the Geography Sings cd we have been listening to for quite a number of years so far, intermittently

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It is good for fun and a laugh, at each other of course, never the voices on the cd ... never. If you have never heard of this I suggest you seriously consider it. I thought it would never work, due to the cheese factor, but it turns out that yours truly has learned an astounding number of the songs.

If only it was publicly acceptable for me to sing everything, I would be all set. I remember Neal telling me about the time his Mom confronted him about his obsession with listening to music, saying "If only you could learn all your school work like you can memorize the words to all these songs you listen to". Well, folks, his Mom was right on the money!

When we tire of this, we will move on to exploring the places of the world vicariously, using travel guides. Ruth Beechick outlines how to capitalize on this idea in her book You can Teach Your Child Successfully, Grades 4-8 (since that be where we is). I especially like the Eyewitness travel guides, which contain lots of illustrations and interesting facts. I picked up a used copy, at our local Value Village, about Spain and we are all feeling eager to try geography this new way.