My name is Katie, and I'm a curriculum addict.

I know we are doing American History next year. I know the basic resources we will use. I know what programs don't fit into that schedule. I know we are not doing Ancient history. I know he doesn't want to do a Great Books study. And yet...man do I drool over the new Omnibus self paced lessons!  History, great books, religion, all in one. College class meets travel documentary. I can't help it. I want it. And will drool over it. so yeah...I'm a curriculum addict. I admit it. If you want to see what has me all doe eyed you can check out some free sample lessons.

"Integrated" geography

I made up that title all by myself. It's a nicer way of saying "throw things at the subject and hopes some of it sticks." We've tried multiple things for geography. We used the maps from The Story of the World, Activity Book  our first year, and Map Trek  our second year. I LOVE the Map Trek maps!  This year we are using Sonlight and it takes a different approach. Rather than doing detail work on a small, regional map it has him label places he reads about on a large world map. He enjoys none of this. To try to make it a bit more interesting I have taken to adding in some "fun" games. He does enjoy the phone app "Stack the Countries", and last night he played geography games at FreeRice.com. (If you haven't been to freerice you need to try it. You play educational quiz games and right answers earn food for hungry people.) And just for good measure he watched a segment of a Rick Steves' travel show on Venice. So there you go: "Integrated" Geography.