Goss Homeschool Academy

  Fall break this year was a really fun road trip up to Indiana and Kentucky!  I have some great AirBnb recommendations and travel tips for anyone who plans to travel in this area!  The trip was inspired because a student I have in VIPKID has been attending a residency program with her mom at Indiana University (Bloomington!)  This was the perfect opportunity to visit the boyhood museum of Abraham Lincoln (last year we visited the birthplace! Read about it here! ) We then took the interstate over to the Ark and then back down to Mammoth Cave for an epic fall break adventure! Stop 1 - Abraham Lincoln Boyhood Park (Lincoln City, Indiana)   Christian is third grade now and an amazing reader.  One of his books this school year is the D'Aulaire biography of Lincoln.  He's reading it on his own and when I told him that my dad's family has traced lineage to Abraham Lincoln's family (my dad was 14th cousins I think?!) Christian was sooooo interested and

My daughter blessed me while we were driving in the car this week.  She said "Mommy, can we keep this CD in the car forever and ever?"  She was remarking about the current Term 1 CD that we have been studying the past few months.  I love that they have developed a relationship with these songs and it just goes to show me what a testament it is that exposure to quality music can leave a mark on the soul!  I assured her that we will always have the CD to come back to, but soon we'll have a new CD to listen to and new songs to learn!  Here are the current Term 2 songs we will be studying for folk and hymn: December Hymn - Amazing Grace I fell in love with Peter Hollens' gift a few years ago when we listened to his version of Loch Lomond! Folk - The Minstrel Boy There are various arrangements of this song but when I saw a recording by The Clancy Brothers I had to choose this recording for our listening enjoyment!  I think it's important for the kids to liste