On This Day…

Here are some resources for finding out about historical events that occurred on any given day of the year:

  Carschooling Website: At www.carschooling.com you can sign up for our free eZine with historical information about each day of the year. Library of Congress Website: American Memory at http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/today offers “Today in History,” which lists […]

March 1st, 2012 | Tags: , , , , | Category: Learning Fun | Leave a comment

Eat & Speak Your Veggies

A carscholar mom and her carschoolers have learned a lot of foreign language words through food. They look for billboards and signs that have different kinds of foods and then say the name of the fruit, vegetable, or dairy product in the foreign language they are studying. Whenever they get stuck on a particular word, […]

January 26th, 2012 | Tags: , , | Category: activities, Learning Fun | Leave a comment

Lunchtime Trivia

Use bagged lunches to introduce a morsel of history. In addition to sandwiches, fruit, and chips, include a note in each lunch bag that tells about some historical event that occurred on that day or the name of an important person in history that was born that day. Have your carschoolers read their note out […]

January 5th, 2012 | Tags: , , , , | Category: activities, Learning Fun | Leave a comment