Avoiding Homeschooling Burnout

Those of us who are homeschooling family for some time with the enthusiasm and willingness to commission a new year in early homeschooling - September followed by a sense of feeling rushed and overworked somewhere around Thanksgiving. Homeschooling begins to feel emotionally as a burden instead of a worthwhile trip for the family and feel tired and forgetful which the multitask us is doing! These are the signs of burn homeschooling. Most homeschoolers can recognize the symptoms, but some feel helpless to find a

Historical Fiction Set In Ancient Sumer - Secret Of The Scribe By Jennifer Johnson Garrity

I always loved history complement studies with historical fiction. I found picture books and novels in abundance while studying Greece and Rome, the revival and reform, or revolutionary and civil wars. But ancient Sumer? The closest I could get was the story of Gilgamesh, but it is an epic, not a novel, and not nearly as appealing to girls from eight to twelve-year-old! Really, girls and boys also love the secret of the clerk, the first historical novel about ancient Sumer I 've seen. Author Jennifer Johnson Garrity transports the