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Ok, so I know I haven’t been very homeschool friendly necessarily lately but I did try with the Valentine’s crafts.  But, now, now I must make my admission of geography illiteracy.  I am not kidding you.  Once while on vacation with my best buddy from high school, we sat bikini clad on the beach in Ft. Lauderdale Florida.  We were imbibing a little and taking in much sun.  We had already been to the Bahamas and back and were headed to Disney in a few days.  So, as you can imagine, much money was being spent.

So, when a radio DJ approached us with the following task, “Name this ocean and I’ll give you $50 right now”.  I guess maybe since were somewhat thin, frail and dumb looking he figured it was a good choice and a way to keep his $50.  He was right.  Neither of us had a clue what ocean that was.  I was more than a little embarrassed.

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My friend quickly retorted, “but she (meaning me) can say the counties in Alabama in alphabetical order”.  He was shocked I think.  I did it.  He laughed and kept his $50.  Just FYI, we were forced to learn them in our senior democracy class and well, that was something that stuck with me…unlike most geography which went totally over my head.

I told you all that to say this….go check out this interactive map of the United States…..it is awesome and obviously I have failed miserably at it for several hours now…oops!


Posted in Online homeschooling, Unit Studies, students, teachers on February 18th, 2009

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  1. Val Says:
    February 18th, 2009 at 11:44 pm

    Thank you! My son is working hard on American history and folklore right now and he will love that website. :)

    Val

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