Category Archives: Links to Explore

Animal Science Curriculum

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If you are looking for a fantastic animal book for your kids that absolutely works as your entire animal science curriculum, you should get them this book – Animals: A Visual Encyclopedia. We spent an entire science lesson discussing just one page layout in this book – it’s that wonderful. You can simplify it for little kids (and it has beautiful photos) but it goes more in depth for big kids (I’m learning a lot!)

C wrote his own blog post about this book. (Side note, I’m thrilled with how great his writing is these days! Go, Little Blogger!) And he loves getting comments on his blog so please say hi over there.

Whoops, forgot his blog is private! If you want access send me an email. 🙂

Pinterest

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I’m linking here so I can remember to go through my sister’s new Pinterest board for homeschooling ideas – here.

Another one of my sisters has entered the crazy and joyous world of homeschooling! I’m so excited because I know how passionate and creative and organized she is so I’m going to learn a TON from her and get lots of great ideas. 😀

Global Perspective

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I’ve written about these before but we’re exploring a new one and I find them all so fascinating I wanted to share again:

Material World: A Global Family Portrait is families from around the world in front of their homes with their possessions photographed and inventoried. It’s amazing and humbling and enlightening. I think it’s an excellent resource for any family and especially so if you’re homeschooling and teaching your kids about families and cultures around the world – excellent school resource! If I ever feel dissatisfied with anything, one look at this book will immediately humble me back into an overwhelming appreciation for how blessed we are in our physical needs being met. Something I do not ever want to take for granted!

Women in the Material World focuses on women in some of those families and what their lives are like.

But then there are the FOOD ones! Which were more expensive, we own the two above but I really want to get the food ones someday. So I can pull them out at dinner time when our kids express any complaints about the menu.

Hungry Planet: What the World Eats is the original and has essays from a variety of authors, a lot of photos from the countries (some graphic, as they show the reality of life and food preparation and starvation but I still think they are safe for my children to see – just something that needs further discussion and explanation.) It has a photograph of each family with one week’s worth of food and the estimated price and breakdown by food category (fruits & veggies, animal products, sweets, etc.) WOW. Just wow. You have to read this book. REALLY.

What the World Eats is geared towards younger readers, we just got it from the library and our oldest two are entranced.

What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets is the one I’m exploring now. It’s photographs of an individual’s diet for one day with some background on them, their stats (height, weight, activity level) and the calorie estimator. It’s incredible!

So very literally these books changed my perspective of the world. They are funny and sad and serious and educational and humbling and they really will forever alter how you perceive food and material possessions and wealth and the world.