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Excited to add a hands-on activity to go along with our Trail of Tears Unit Study and because we haven’t baked anything even slightly sweet yet at the high altitude we now live in, we thought we would make Cherokee Garden Pan Bread.

Cherokee Garden Pan Bread

First though, here is a bit of background information about the Cherokee that we read about in one of our recipe books.

The Cherokee lived in large villages in southeastern North America.

Each village consisted of about 30 to 60 houses that surrounded a large meeting building.

Each dome shaped house had a wattle frame, which was woven from woven twigs and branches.They covered the frame with mud or clay paste called daub.
Cherokee ate both garden foods and wild plants. Corns, beans, squash, and wild yams grew in the Cherokees’ large gardens.

Woman collected raspberries, strawberries, cranberries, blackberries, and gooseberries.   They also gathered walnuts, hickory nuts and pecans from surrounding forests.

They ground seeds, nuts and corn into meal with a hollowed out log, called a mortar and a coarse stick.

This recipe uses a lot of the ingredients that they would have had on hand then.  By the way, because sometimes I do forget to share where I get some of my ideas from,  I wanted to be sure you knew about these series of books that I love.

They are called Exploring History Through Simple Recipes and there are several cool books in this oldie, but goodie series.

This one is called American Indian Cooking before 1500.

One more thing before I share how easy Tiny whipped this up, but we made a few substitutions.

Though there is pumpkin here in Cuenca, Ecuador there is not canned pumpkin.  So I used what we had on hand, which was apples as a substitute.

Garden Pan Bread IngredientsStep 1 Measuring

So here is your cast of characters in Spanish no doubt.

We are all trying to learn to read Spanish, but here are the basic ingredients: whole wheat flour, cornmeal, walnuts, raisins and then of course apples.

First, Tiny combined the dry ingredients.  We did omit the baking powder too as we are tweaking recipes a bit to bake at high altitudes.

If you are at sea level, keep the recipe just like I have it printed above.

Step 2 Mixing Dry IngredientsStep 3 Preparing Wet Ingredients

After mixing the dry ingredients (except for the walnuts and raisins) we grabbed a second bowl to mix the wet ingredients.   I grated the apples to add to the mixture to substitute for the pumpkin.

Again, I had to play with the recipe a bit because I know it requires more liquid too when we bake here in the mountains.

So we added about another 1/4 cup of water.

Step 4 Mix IngredientsStep 5 Add a few Modern Ingredients

Then Tiny combine the wet and dry ingredients.  Then we steered off course here.
We added a bit of “modern” ingredients just because we felt like it needed some sweetness.

We added a 1/2 cup of brown sugar because we had it on hand too and a pinch of vanilla extract never hurt anything.

Step 6 Add Raisins and WalnutsStep 7 Prepare for Baking

Then we folded in the raisins and walnuts.  Tiny doesn’t like walnuts, so we left them whole instead of chopping them up. He can pick them out later.

Bake at 350 degrees in a greased pan for about 30 minutes.

Again, everything takes longer to cook here, so we added another 15 minutes to the baking time.

Finished

I think Tiny and I reached the same conclusion on this bread. We would have added a bit more sugar and apple to make it sweeter.

It was pretty authentic because you could taste the cornmeal, with a hint of fruit.  I am not sure the pumpkin would have made it taste sweeter, just differently.

Overall, it was simple and plain and gave us both a taste (no pun intended) of what the Cherokee may have eaten with the ingredients they had on hand.

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What I Learned From a Chicken When Lapbooking

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As soon as I graduated high school and could afford my first reliable car, I drove the 10 hour drive each summer to my Granny’s house in the woods of Mississippi.  My fondest memories are waking up early at her home each morning and watching her tend her beautiful garden and beloved chickens.

What little I knew about chickens, I knew enough to know that they always made their way back to her after they took their time free-range feeding and my Granny made sure her chickens had plenty of space to roam.

Lapbooking reminds me of my Granny’s much loved chickens.  The freedom to roam cage-free without restrictions on what we want to learn and with plenty of time to explore topics we like no matter how random drew us to lapbooks.

The freedom to peck unhindered at various topics and to demonstrate it through lapbooks has still not lost its appeal even though my boys are older.  If anything, I think I have been more undeterred to use our lapbooks as enrichment because of the appeal to visual learners.

My boys did not change their learning style because they got to middle school and high school.  So what I am saying is that I never have hailed to the thinking that lapbooks are for the crafty young sort of type of kid.  You can certainly use it that way, but again the allure for us has always been the choice to study and display what we want to remember about a topic.

Another unexpected advantage was that leaping into lapbooks was the first step in switching my homeschool approach.

At the time, it seemed less daunting to try a lapbook or two than it did to say I was officially adopting a more unit study approach after leaving a strictly classical approach to homeschooling.

Like a lot of new lapbookers though, I made the same newbie mistakes of making my sons cut all the minibooks and coloring every single picture.

Stepping back from lapbooks for a while after I almost hit burnout, it took me time to re-evaluate what we liked the most about lapbooks.  After many years, here are 4 things that make lapbooks keepers in our homeschool journey.

All ages of my children can work on lapbooks.

Part of my foundational homeschool goals when I took Mr. Senior 2013 out of kindergarten was to foster sibling relationships.

It was not only important that he and I have a strong bond, but that he interact with his siblings as we schooled together.  Working on the same theme and sharing tidbits of knowledge to add to each of their lapbooks encourages sharing learning time together.

Importance of family projects and learning.

Another sanity saver change I made was determining ahead of time the number of lapbooks we were going to do.

Because the boys were younger when we started lapbooking, each one still needed my help in putting final touches on their lapbooks.  When we spent more time gluing than learning, I felt some of our actual learning time lagged.

I learned that one jointly shared lapbook did mean less satisfying time for each child.

A joint family project is just as fulfilling, if not more so because each child contributes a meaningful share.  Did I mention the younger child is learning from the information that the older child is contributing and the older child is reviewing basic facts he may have forgotten? Priceless!

Look at my American Civil War lapbook where all my sons contributed different parts.

Mr. Senior 2013 at that time was interested in Morse code and war technology.  Mr. Awesome was interested in war money and then my littlest sweetie was only interested in games.

I added a board game to the lapbook for him also.  As the teacher, part of my goals were to be sure my sons knew who the key players were in the American Civil War.  We added the section Famous Leaders of the Civil War to satisfy my goals.

We were able to add tidbits of information that sparked the love of learning for each son and satisfy my teacher requirements and compile it into a timeless family treasure.

Lapbooks Fullfilling Family Projects

It doesn’t mean we haven’t prepared a lapbook for each child, we do many times.  The rainforest was one unit study and lapbook that my sons absolutely were not going to share.

It does mean that lapbooks are a tool to wield in your family for the way your children need them.

When you have limits on your time or even feel you are lack luster in energy, then unknowingly a joint family project can be just as a satisfying.

Captivating hands-on tool.

Because I never felt like the bomb-mom when it came to hands-on activities, I knew that lapboooks could always make up the spine of our hands-on learning.

No matter the age of a learner, the lure of minibooks and folds still draws in any age learner.

Freedom to roam caged-free.

I just couldn’t help but share this main reason again with you about what we are passionate about lapbooks because it is so utterly inspiring for me and my boys.

From a deep down place of no holes barred learning is where I try to draw from each time we prepare a new lapbook.  I am real too.  So no, not every time do I feel as inspired, but then again, I remind myself of how learning is unbridled and I get giddy all over again to try another one.

The freedom to choose not only what we want to learn but for your child to relive that information as he comes back time and time again through the years to interact with his timepiece is a satisfaction that is hard for me to explain with mere words.
It may sound a bit dramatic (yes I have an edgy dramatic side) but I can’t imagine homeschooling without lapbooking.

Though my grandmother has been passed for a while now, I have never looked at the humble chicken quite the same each time we lapbook.

What about you? Do you lapbook? What are you favorite topics to lapbook about?

Hugs and love ya,

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Fun Winter Craft Ideas for Middle School Homeschool

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Today, I have rounded up some winter craft ideas for middle school kids. Also, look at my page Homeschool Middle School for more fun tips.

When it’s brrrrrrr outside, middle school kids still have the desire to craft, create and design.

Fun Winter Craft Ideas for Middle School Homeschool

I focused on projects or ideas for things you already have around the house and on activities that most middle school kids can do on their own.

Although all these projects don’t have a winter theme, they are all projects that can be done inside when the days are longer in doors.

Winter Craft Ideas for Middle School

Asserting independence at the middle school grades is part of the maturing process for your kids; I find that projects and crafts are great ways for a middle school kids to have some independent time away from their siblings and well, from us too.

I would find my boys working on projects in their room at odd hours of the days and wished I had collected more ideas for my oldest son during his middle school years.

Maybe one or two ideas will spark a creative bent for your middle school sweetie.

Crafts Ideas for Winter

A fun way to spend the long evening hours and to recycle magazines to make a fun and useful bowl.

Use apple peels, orange and lemon peels to make fruity scented potpourri and put it in pouches in your kid’s bedroom.

Check out the recycled magazine vessels.

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Oh my goodness, I remember doing something like this in my art class in 7th grade.  It is pendulum painting.

Of course, mine didn’t look near as good as this.

I never was talented at art, but I always showed up at class ready to create another not so inspiring creation.

With this project, you could easily incorporate a bit of science too.


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Recycling CDs with yarn is a fun way to learn about weaving. 

Whatever the age your kids are even middle school kids love to have fun still with snow and ice.

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Crafts Ideas for Homeschool

Look at making these fun ice balloons.

Crafts don’t always have to be educational, just inspirational to invoke the imagination.

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I have done several letter collages for parties, but this is such a fun idea for middle school kids to make letters from vintage comic books.


Not too babyish so my kids can enjoy a bit of art in their room too.

I am absolutely in awe of this Dale Chihuly inspired chandelier created by middleschoolers. 

Though it looks like they used a complicated process, this is simply regular plastic drinking cups and permanent markers. 

Middle School Crafts

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Then they melted the cups in the toaster oven.

Unbelievable, how beautiful and easy this art project is.

You may need to supervise this project a bit since the toaster oven is involved unless you have a kid that has been cooking for a while.

This hands-on idea inspired my unit study and lapbook on glassblowing.

Glass Blowing Lapbook Glass Blowing

Moreover, just in case you live in a place like I do where snow is non-existent, check out how to make Borax crystals icicles for kids and look here for a fun snowflake craft with borax.

Using tempera paint and charcoal your middle school kids can create winter landscapes.

This makes for beautiful art to keep through the years.

And use this fun easy salt and watercolor ingredients to do a beautiful winter art project. So easy.

If you have a fan of The Hunger Games, check out 21 Craft Ideas for The Hunger Games.

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Fun Winter Ideas for Middle School

Though this next website, Library Arts, is more about explaining what type of teen programs they offer for middle school arts, it has a plethora of ideas for hands-on activities.

Maybe you will be able to grab an idea or two.

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They now have activities divided by age, so even your young kids can be inspired.

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More Homeschooling in Middle School Resources

In addition, don’t forget, I have a unit study and lapbook on The Arctic and The Inuit. 

Winter time is a great time to study about how the Inuit lived and you love my Arctic and Inuit Lapbook.

I have some easy hands-on idea too.

Inuit Lapbook

Also, art is one activity you can do anytime of the year, but when it’s cold outside keep learning fun indoors by doing Art History.

Add Art History To Your Homeschool… Effortlessly!

Take your art studies from occasional crafts to intentional art appreciation and invite your kids to make open-ended art inspired by famous artists from the past.

It’s easier than you think and this guide will show you how to get started quickly… even if you’ve never taken an art class in your life!

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  • Why art history should be one of your core subjects and not an ‘elective’ or an ‘extra’
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  • Who to study first (and you’ll get a full-length open-and-go study guide so you can begin today!)

Meaningful art lessons don’t need to be super time consuming or elaborate to be impactful and inspiring. Get your free starter kit and study guide today and start making creative memories with your kids!

Winter Craft Ideas for Middle School

Maybe one of these ideas will add a touch of creativity to your cold winter days.

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Hugs and love ya,

Winter Craft Ideas for Middle School

5 days of Homeschooling Mid-Year and Thriving. Day 5 Raising Independent Learners

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I want to encourage you today in 5 days of Homeschooling Mid-Year and Thriving. Day 5 Raising Independent Learners because our homeschool journey is not always free of worry. 

Through the years, we realize that time with our children is fleeting.  During the early years, we have the power to either teach them self-sufficiency or expose them to being vulnerable.

Fixating on curriculum choices is normal also because our desire to give our children a superior education is important to us.  Raising independent learners is not just about browsing curriculum choices even though I couldn’t have been convinced otherwise when I first started my adventure.

Keeping a clean house, managing our finances and the needs of my small children consumed my day when they were younger. Many times I felt like I was behind in using that new captivating curriculum in my schoolroom.  Everyday tasks left me with the idea that I was not teaching anything.

5 days of Homeschooling Mid-Year and Thriving. Day 5 Raising Independent Learners

What I didn’t expect now is that I would treasure the experience of raising independent learners through everyday living. Chores and task that seemed mundane at the time have now turned into a daily exercise of having a personal resolve for whatever Mr. Senior 2013 sets out to do.

Sure, it’s a work in progress with all of my sons, even with Mr. Senior 2013.  But, the time spent with him is the most precious gift I could give him.

There are different tips for each age and maybe some of these, I hope, will comfort you.

tips for youngest learners
  • Start a routine of chores when they are very young. Preschool and earlier is not too young to start. It could be something as easy as taking their socks to their room.   At this age, it is all about age appropriate chores.  If children can’t learn from the beginning to value a toy, their article of clothing or anything else in their room, then they will place little value on what you tell them as they grow older. Respect begins here.
  • Routine is the security blanket of good behavior. Many times in my workshop I share that everybody has some degree of organization though they may not think so. True, it may need to be fine tuned so that it becomes a routine instead of haphazardly responding to each day, but routine means forward progress. It is not easy to break bad habits but your desire to want something better for your children will show them what you value in your life. In turn children feel secure because naturally they desire boundaries and limitations. Creating routine in everyday life turns into good habits they practice as they grow older.
tips for middle school learners
  • Children need to make decisions so you can determine if they are applying the values you have taught. Spending time with your children now more than ever before is important, but it is not easy a lot of times. 
  • Children do not always think they need our guidance. As children grow older we tend to think they need us less. This is true when it comes to them caring for their personal needs now, but couldn’t be further from the truth as their hormones rage. Normal hormones indicate that they are trying to make some adult like decisions.  Allowing them to make as many decisions as possible that do not conflict with your values helps them to appreciate the freedom that comes with adulthood. Teaching independence comes from them making decisions such as what order of school subjects they do for the day, where they choose to study and even how much they want to cover in each subject. 
  • Clear cut consequences a must while resisting the urge to partake in a battle of the wills. Hormones raging for both mom and child can be a lethal combination. The difference is that most children don’t realize what is going on and it’s not easy for us either. However, being a homeschooling parent means parenting even when we do not feel at our best. It seems that our pre-teens and teens just have a knack for knowing we are not at our peak performance. I find that having clear cut boundaries keeps any comments or actions from escalating into a full blown battle of the wills. I may not feel good then but when I am feeling better that is the time to enforce consequences. Reminding my sons of consequences teaches them to think before they have knee-jerk responses.  Don’t be too critical of them though because hormones are real and it is not something we “get over” but deal with each day in love even as adults.
tips for high school learners

  • Highschool is preparation for life. Focusing on just the academic portion is normal, but you learn too that highschool is the time to prepare for adult hood. Of all the times that Mr. Senior 2013 needed me, I realize he needs me the most here and now. No, he doesn’t act like that each day but many times he needs a sounding board for what he determines that needs to be done next as he graduates.  Young adults now find that sweet maturity may not always be so sweet, it can also be bitter.  It is a bitter sweet conclusion for them as they determine whether they are driving, working a job and possibly already doing college that adult life is sweet, but making wrong decisions can be bitter.  You do not have to make decisions alone in highschool and this is comforting. If you have done your job well training their strength of character when they are younger, you will have a pre-adult who may have sound opinions and a method for reaching the same goals.
  • Raising independent dependents. Lately, I use this term a lot because I think it describes the age of highschool. They want independence but realize that we are not all truly independent even as adults. This is still a time of testing boundaries because your children may feel they know a lot of things better than you do. They may or may not. Whatever the case, if they are not taught to respect you and your guidelines they will not respect others, their future spouse, school mates or work mates.  Respect is earned inside your home. This means I give respect to my sons too. Raising their voice, exercising argument muscles and flexing their adult voices are part of learning to be an adult.  You are the only one to determine when the boundary line has been crossed. We can’t expect to raise independent learners then at the first sign they are trying to be independent, we shoot them down so to speak. Modeling adult behavior begins with you. Their job is to finish the goals you have set down for them and if they can’t do that and work at a job, volunteer, work out at the gym or spend time doing their hobby they are so fond of, then this is the time to teach them how to prioritize as an adult.

Teaching our children to be resilient today is a necessity to survival. It is our job to shield, protect and care for our children as they are young and tender but as they grow older and their decision making ability grows, we need to give up control without giving up our God given authority.

They still need our guidance even as young adults.

Failure is best learned at home when there is not much riding on the decision. When they are on their own, or are making decisions for a family as a head of household then consequences of wrong decisions are more costly.

Either resisting or fulfilling the responsibilities of adult life are qualities that are fortified when they are very young.

It is hard to even comprehend the value of what seems like wasted days when our children argue with us about chores and manners, but your children will praise you when you have taught them to stand on their own two feet. 

Hugs and love ya,

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5 days of Homeschooling Mid-Year and Thriving. Day 4 At Home Homeschooler

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Today, in 5 days of homeschooling mid-year and thriving. Day 4 At Home Homeschooler is about avoiding the “prove it” trap.  Don’t succumb to it.

Socialization, curriculum, record keeping, homeschooling high school and preschool preparedness are some of our secret homeschool fears.  Trying to only satisfy requirements and produce proof instead of allowing learning to take place naturally at home can be a pitfall.

We live in a world where our culture dictates that we have proof to show anything that we are doing.  For example, I think back to the day we got our marriage license. To give any more thought to the marriage license than just to fulfill the legal requirement is ludicrous to even ponder.

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At home is where we practiced years on our marriage that I cherish deeply.

Though important, meeting homeschool legal requirements is just a process too, but to homeschool to only meet legal requirements can impede learning.

We don’t intentionally homeschool to only meet legal requirements, but we are victims of our upbringing and the influence of the present educational world.

A fresh start homeschooling mid-year and to thrive at it requires that we first be at home to practice our new cherished relationships.

It does not mean that we barricade the door to our home, but it means we stand ready to open up the door to new opportunities to experience learning. In today’s homeschool world that is called deschooling.

I have heard many definitions of deschooling, but I want to give you mine.

Deschooling means to get off the public school treadmill which encompasses everything about the way the public system views schedules, socialization, discipline, labeling of children, teacher background, record keeping, college readiness, preparation for reading and education in general and determine what education means for your family.

5 days of Homeschooling Mid-Year

Many homeschoolers start  with a textbook in hand and with no more forethought to the process of education at home than just to complete worksheets, assign a test and move on.

This definition by Noah Webster that I share in one of my workshops beckons you to define your meaning of education too.

EDUCATION. The bringing up, as of a child, instruction; formation of manners. Education comprehends all that series of instruction and discipline which is intended to enlighten the understanding, correct the temper, and form the manners and habits of youth, and fit them for usefulness in their future stations. To give children a good education in manners, arts and science, is important; to give them a religious education is indispensable; and an immense responsibility rests on parents and guardians who neglect these duties.

Bring your children home, but define your meaning of education also. Step back, breathe and brace yourself up for a lifestyle that will fit your family for a lifetime.
Deschooling also means substituting other activities now in your life that are family centered instead of self-centered on one member of the family.
It can mean taking numerous field trips in one month, taking a family vacation and even getting caught up on much needed rest. It may mean adjusting the eating habits of your family. The definition by Noah Webster broadens our term of educating a family beyond the academics.

The length of the deschooling process is different for everyone, but it should be examined at various points during our homeschool journey.

When a schedule is jammed packed full of outside activities because we fear that our children may not be socialized, then our focus has shifted from the needs of our family to the world’s idea of socialization.

Maybe we forced one child in tears to finish an assignment because the world told us that teaches accountability.  Deep down in our heart though our mommy voice may be calling out that our child is suffocating and his self confidence is diminishing.Time is needed to examine and heal those emotions.

At home homeschooling means that we have had enough time at home pondering our definition of education, applying it to our children and celebrating the calming effects on our family.

For some families it has meant several months of being home together so that sibling relationships are nurtured and so that parents become the teen’s greatest friend. Some families find that it takes a whole year before they feel that they have embraced the homeschooling lifestyle.

It does not mean that you do not school but it means that you now determine how the knowledge you are teaching will fit into your definition of education.

 

Outside intervening pressure to conform to a norm that does not work for our family has now been kept to a minimum. Our culture upbringing still looms close by when fear sets in or when we fail.  Pressure to conform to the norm that we left behind will always be here.

At home teaching our children everyday will give us the courage to keep trying when we succumb to pressures.  Shedding educational-ese and accepting a new mind-set only happens when we have had sufficient time at home to contemplate all our ideas on education.

No one sets out on their journey to live a double life style.

It happens easily when we try to keep one foot in the public school by keeping pace with the scope and sequence and one foot at home.

Courage is a necessity for all at home homeschoolers so you are not alone.

Detox from public school by deschooling and rediscover how easy learning can take place at home without limits or confinements by embracing your definition of education.

Hugs and you know I love ya,

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