Category Archives: Around the world through books

We’ve just finished our virtual trip to Italy.  Italy provided lots of opportunities to learn – too many to follow in such a brief trip!  We didn’t really touch on the history or the language but we had lots of … Continue reading →

We’re getting through our virtual world tour much more slowly than I’d imagined.  I’d planned one country every two weeks (cue laughter from more experienced mums and home educators!) but I’m realising that to enjoy home education at this stage … Continue reading →

We’ve been visiting Ireland on our world tour for the past few weeks.  We started our visit by locating the country on the globe and in the sticker atlas and talked a little about the partition of Ireland.  We also … Continue reading →

We’ve started back with our virtual round the world trip after a loooong break.  I’ve really missed this so I’m excited about continuing our ‘journey’.  Our next stop is not a country but a region – the Arctic. We’ve read … Continue reading →

We are fortunate to have frequent visitors, the vast majority of whom are three-dimensional but this week we’ve had three rather flat visitors come to stay.  And they are all called Stanley.  For those of you uninitiated in the world … Continue reading →

We’ve just finished the second part of our Around the World project.  Over the past few weeks we’ve been reading books that highlight the differences in cultures and customs aroud the world and the richness this adds to life.  We started … Continue reading →

I love travelling and learning about other cultures so have always looked forward to covering human geography in our learning.  I would like my children to develop an appreciation of the diversity of this world and all the wonderful things and people … Continue reading →