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Animals in World War One

December 1, 2018 By Annette1 1 Comment

Over the past two weeks my lad and I have been learning about animals in the war.  Camels, horses, dogs, donkeys, mules, cats, dogs, elephants and pigeons.  I also heard about a monkey and a turtle that were morale boosters during the war.   All these animals helped people in the war effort.

Animals in World War 1

What Animals Served?

The imperial war museum tells of 15 animals that went to war.  Bbc talks of some of the unusual animals like Winnie the Pooh!  🙂

Horses, donkeys, mules and camels carried food, water, ammunition and medical supplies to men at the front.   Dogs served sentry, medical, messaging, and scout work, as well as raising morale.   They also killed vermin.  Pigeons carried messages very swiftly to high command.   Canaries detected poisonous gas.

Great war animals in the world war. Elephants, dogs, pigeons and horses.

Camels

Camels were part of the war effort.  The Imperial Camel troops that served in the Middle East. There were many good reasons to use camels in battle, but also some dangers as you can learn about at this site.

Horses:

Horses were used for a variety of tasks in the war. Pulling weapons, carrying officers, bringing in supplies and more.  I knew gas was used during the war, but never thought of the need for horses to have gas masks.

Some of the pictures in this videos were hard to view.  It was SO hard for the horses.  They suffered terribly right alongside the men they served with.  The soldiers did the best they could for the horses, but conditions were absolutely horrible.

Cats

Cats that were part of the war effort. Mostly as vermin control and morale officers, but some cats were trained to detect gas. Learn more about these amazing felines here.

Dogs:

Then of course we have the dogs of the war.  Sentries, scouts, companions, mascots, medical dogs, message runners and more.  Dogs were SO very useful in the war. 

Stubby the dog “Sgt stubby an American dog”  There is a cartoon version which the lad and I watched.  It was pretty good.  The full movie can be found on youtube. 

We learned about a dog trainer in Scotland named Major Edwin Richardson.  His name was mentioned in one of the videos so we looked him up.   He started the first British War Dog School.  Learn more here.

We also learned about other famous dogs of World War 1.

Elephants!

I have to admit I was shocked to hear about elephants in the war.  It seemed that most of them were used for publicity stunts.  None the less, elephants were definitely used in world war 1 by both sides. 

Pigeons

Pigeon training, homing pigeons. The lad was curious about how you train a pigeon to race home or carry a message.

Pigeons in world war 1.  In 1915, as stalemate and trench warfare set in, communication became very important.  Pigeons became important to the war efforts and homing pigeons were used to carrying message to High Command.  More than 100,000 pigeons were used.  Some of them received medals. They overcame cut telegraph wires and other communication difficulties, though they did face their own challenges of hawks, shell-fire and more.   Learn about some pigeon heroes’ on this page.  A Story about a brave pigeon that may or may not be true can be located on this site.   Some stories and pictures here.

We even ran across this innovative idea for gathering information.

In case you couldn’t guess, my son did his research paper on pigeons and how they were used in the war.   He’s not quite done, but he’s been fighting a nasty cold this week and having a hard time managing his time. 

Before I Go

This information was so cool to learn!  Look at this:  EVEN SLUGS were used!!!!!

Slugs
By the time soldiers noticed the presence of mustard gas on the battlefield, it was often too late. Dr. Paul Bartsch of the Division of Mollusks ……discovered that slugs could detect mustard gas well before humans could. The slugs would visibly indicate their discomfort by closing their breathing pores and compressing their bodies, and soldiers in the trenches would quickly put on their gas masks to protect themselves from harmful levels of gas. The “slug brigade” ended up saving many lives.   Source.

It’s been a great couple of weeks learning about Animals in the war.  I was surprised more often than I care to admit, but it was great.

Filed Under: Homeschooling Tagged With: child-led learning, history, World War

Spiritual Education In Homeschooling

November 30, 2018 By Annette1 6 Comments

For families that are faith based homeschoolers a question that often arises is how does one fit in a spiritual component to their homeschooling.  The question arises What is Spiritual Education?  How does one approach it?

Is it part of the homeschool day, as in, is it subject that is completed once a day just like math, science, art etc.  OR is a more generic part of the day NOT considered a subject in the curriculum.   The question then begged is, how do you as the parent teacher help your children understand the difference?

Spiritual Education in Homeschooling, two main methods

I admittedly am not sure of the answer but want to take the time to explore it.  Personally I’ve done it both ways, where it’s one or the other.   Currently I’m doing a mix of both. 

Faith in every Subject

Spiritual education can be woven into every single subject that is taught.  That’s a given in a faith-based homeschool due to the fact that as believers we understand that God is in all and through all and manifests himself throughout the entirety of the world.   He does.   So when we teach art we understand that God is the first artist and shows himself through the things he has created.  The more we understand how God put things together, the more we understand how much he cares for this world. All the details he holds in place show us his omnipotence.   But does weaving faith facts into lessons teach our children how to have a daily devotional time?  Does it teach them facts about the bible which they should understand?

I don’t think so.  It does teach them the relevancy of God to every subject and area of life, but it doesn’t actually teach them to dive deep into God’s word and to think meditatively about spiritual things.

Meditative Study

The way to really understand a subject is to take the time to read and think about what you are learning.  So as you do math you learn that 1 + 1 = 2 and then can bear that out with practical application.  To understand Shakespeare you read his works, consider the time period that he lived in, figure out what the words he used actually mean, and therefore are able to understand his works. The same goes for understanding God.  You actually need to stop, read his word, consider the history and time period, consider what you already know about him, and really think about the verses that you are reading.  What do they tell you about God, what do they tell you about people (including yourself).  It’s important to learn these skills early so they translate into continuing these skills as adult. 

Curriculum or Outside of Curriculum

The challenge I find is this.  Having a devotional time as part of your homeschooling day, means it won’t be forgotten.  Do your math, your science, have your devotions, do your English.  It’s just part of your learning time.  You know it will get done. But here’s a risk involved: your children will see this only as a subject to be completed, not a life skill to develop.

BUT if you separate out your devotional time what do you do on those really busy days when it’s hard to fit everything in?  Then you risk your devotional time being forgotten, or laid aside, in the busyness of life.  The risk you run is teaching your children that sometimes all the running around we do is more important than learning more about God and his will for our lives.   How does one counter that?  

Combination?

This is why I see combining the two methods as win-win.   Your child (as a subject) learns the books of the bible, or learns memory verses, or works through a Sunday School lesson. A regular study time that teaches without necessarily the meditative aspect of a personal devotional time. 

And then at a separate time (like at a meal or first thing in the morning) you can have a family devotional time, or take 30 minutes after (or before) you start your homeschooling day to have a personal time of reading God’s word and talking about it.  To that end, in our day, we do a couple of things.  First as I go through the book of John I talk with my lad about what I’m learning and get his insights as well. I’ll read verses to him and say “Hey, this is what I’m thinking and learning.  What are your thoughts?”  

At supper (almost every night) we are working through the book Comforting Hearts, Teaching Minds.   We are doing this with our international student which gives us a lots of reasons to stop and just talk as we want him to understand what we are learning too.  We take turns reading scripture and then applying that to what we have learned.  Sometimes we are so amazed.

What Others Do:

I know from talking with other moms that they  have their own routine.  Perhaps they will start their day with 20 minutes of quiet bible reading, or a morning circle time, and as part of their bedtime routine. We each, through trial and error, find our own way.  It’s important to do so though.  God gives us life and care.  His son died for us.  It’s the very least we can do to take time to know him, our heavenly Father, just a wee bit more eh?  

Filed Under: Faith, Homeschooling Tagged With: encouragement, Homeschooling

Top of the Pack Crew Reviews

November 27, 2018 By Annette1 6 Comments

Over the past year I have reviewed 18 products for the Homeschool Review Crew.  I don’t review a whole lot for the crew (some have reviewed some 50 products!!!)  but I live in Canada and only have one child.  🙂  I’ve also learned to be a bit picky.  There are the odd products that I want but don’t really need so am happy enough to let others have first dibs at them.   There are usually four or so that I REALLY WANT but can’t get because I don’t live stateside. It’s part of being part of a State side crew though eh?  Here are my top of the pack, our blue ribbon winners!

Anyways, I just thought I would talk a bit about my son and I’s favourite reviews and link to others that we had an appreciation for.

Blue Ribbon Winners Crew Review

My son’s top reviews

Drive through history. It wasn’t stale, Dave is interesting to listen to.  It was interesting that he actually travelled to places so you could see real pictures of everything.

Drive Through History Adventures

Code for teens: they put together well, I like how they formatted it together.  I’ve learned a lot and I find it interesting to learn coding.

Code for Teens

My Favourites

Drive through History. I liked this program because Dave is funny without being an idiot. He walks you through different places and gives small ancedotes about where you are as well as giving a good history lesson. He connects scripture and art into history seamlessly. The worksheets are just an added bonus.  We still watch episodes weekly.

Home School in the Woods and also the game that we received. Why do I like them? It will make our study of world war 2 much easier. Less material to look up, built in hands on projects to keep a lad intrigued. YET not so formatted we can’t expand the learning as desired.

Home School in the Woods

Contenders:

Silverdale Press: this is a high school level course that teaches rhetoric and the art of persuasive speech.  We really liked how it was set up but the work load was a bit beyond what my lad was up for.  We are using the reading speeches and talking about them as part of our World War Studies.

Silverdale Press

Nature Glo Math-Art: The way the Glo runs her course clicked with my lad.  It was so much fun watching him dig in her math/art/science/history courses.  The conversations we had about the things he was learning filled me with delight.  If you have an ecletic learner I urge you to check out her e-science courses.

Nature Glo's e-Science

Picta-Dicta.  My son is actually annoyed with me that I keep forgetting to do this flashcard Latin learning app. He faithfullly works on it and is making great progress.  I can see getting another in the series for him to follow up with. 

Picta Dicta Natural World

CursiveLogic. This is a handwriting course that my son took a firm liking to.  He has plans to follow up with how to do capital letters once our lives stop being quite so busy. He’s worked at them off and on but wants to gain more confidence in writing them. He very much likes how they do this course.

CursiveLogic

Books of the Bible. Laid out in a straight-forward manner, each book of the bible is presented in a clear format. Verses and stories for each book of the bible.

Teach Sunday School, Books of the bible at-a-glance

I urge you to check out what reviews were favourites for other members of the crew.  We each have our own and for our own reasons.  Who knows, you might find your next favourite resource waiting for you.  🙂 See the other top posts here.

Filed Under: Homeschooling Tagged With: Review, TOS

Dinosaur Museum

November 24, 2018 By Annette1 2 Comments

Do you have a person in your life who likes dinosaurs?  Well.. I have this GREAT book for you today.   Seriously, Lonely Planet Kids has done an amazing job with Build your Own Dinosaur Museum.  In it you will find 5 prehistoric pop-ups to make and display.  Loads of interesting facts pepper the pages as you uncrate dinosaur bones to build your very own dinosaurs.   

Build your own Dinosaur museum

From the Book Cover: 

Calling all dinosaur experts! We need your help.
We have just received a crate of dinosaur fossils – and they need assembling! Fast! Can you find the right room for each skeleton and build them in time for the museum’s big opening? There are five pop-up dinosaurs to put back together, including a Triceratops, Stegosaurus and T-rex. It’s going to be roar some!

Lonely Planet’s Build Your Own Dinosaur Museum is an activity book with a difference, where you get to play chief paleontologist. The museum rooms are ready, but there aren’t any skeletons to display. It’s up to you to figure out which one is which and where they need to go.
Fun, interactive and with lots of facts to discover, this book is perfect for any dinosaur fan, budding biologist or model maker.

What you Get:

When I opened this hardcover book I discovered several pages in the front of the book that were taped securely closed.  Being the curious duck that I am I immediately opened up the tape. By the way, the tape sticks over and over and over again.  I tested it about 15 times and then my lad did a couple more times for good measure. 

Build your own Dinosaur museumThese pieces are colour coded and easy to tear out. They also give instructions so you know which page goes with what display page.  The pieces have bends in them so once you put them in the book they will indeed pop-up. This is excellent for young dinosaur enthusiasts. 

Build your own Dinosaur museumIt does follow the evolutionary theory of the earth’s development, and how animals came into being.  I find this is pretty normal with most dinosaur focused books.  I learned many new facts like did you know there was a triceratops group?  This is a group of dinosaurs with a similar head shape but the horn count was different!  I learned how some dinosaurs found safety in numbers, and some dinosaurs were like ostriches…dependent upon their speed to elude predators. 

Build your own Dinosaur museum

Five of the pages were dedicated to the pop-ups, where-as other pages had spots for adding in interesting details, like this egg. 

Build your own Dinosaur museumThere are so many builds for the dinosaur enthusiast, they should be kept busy learning and playing for a good amount of time.  The great thing is, the text is interesting enough they they’ll keep coming back to it to read it again. 

Build your own Dinosaur museumThe reader gets to learn about 

  • What dinosaurs are
  • Triceratops
  • Dinosaur defense
  • Stegosaurus
  • Plant eaters
  • T-rex
  • Predators
  • Marine Reptiles
  • Liopleurodon
  • Flying Reptiles
  • Pleranodon
  • Where in the World?
  • End of an era

Build your own Dinosaur museum

My Thoughts:

I am enamoured with this book, there is so much information, and so many things to keep busy hands well… busy, it’s just great!   From a homeschoolers’ perspective this book would be an excellent addition to a dinosaur unit.  Helping students to hone their attention on five specific dinosaurs and learn how they were put together. Big bones, small forearms, land moving, earth shakers, flyers and more.

This book is a perfect companion to Dinosaur Devotions that I reviewed last week.  AND.. if you are a member of SchoolhouseTeachers there is a great dinosaurs and the bible program you could work through.  Seriously, you should invest in it, it has so many programs that would be helpful to you and your students it’s amazing.  BUT anyways, Build your Own Dinosaur Museum is a must have for the young dinosaur enthusiast in your home.  It would make an excellent Christmas present don’t you think?

Build your own Dinosaur museum

Build Your Own Dinosaur Museum
Jenny Jacoby
illustrator: Beatrice Blue
Lonely Planet Kids
6-8 years, hardcover, Pop-ups, Build your own
Dinosaurs, history, science, biology
Nature, how it works, archaeology

Reviewed for: Raincoast Books.

Other dinosaur books for you to check into:

  • Dinosaur Atlas
  • The magnificent book of Dinosaurs
  • Who Owns These Bones
  • Northwest Treasures
  • Dinosaur Devotions.

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Filed Under: Homeschooling, Reviews Tagged With: Animals, Elementary, Raincoast, Science

Vacation Highlights

November 23, 2018 By Annette1 2 Comments

Hubby needed a break from work!  He took two days off (woot woot!!!) Our original plan was to go camping but he messed up his finger at work.  He needed to keep it clean and dry so I nixed that idea.  It helped that we still couldn’t get the trailer out of the driveway due to the construction.  I thought I would share our vacation highlights with you all. 

Vacation Highlights

We took the plunge and rented an airbnb unit and it worked out okay.  Three beds, and one air mattress kept everyone content.   We did lasagna the first night and I picked up cheese and deli meat for sandwiches.   Before we got there though we stopped at Colborne Lodge.   I’m going to do up a whole separate post for this visit, but here’s a picture to hold you over. 

Colborne Lodge

We took our student to a capoeira lesson on Wednesday night.  He was SO excited!!!  Capoeira is a system of physical discipline and movement originating among Brazilian slaves, treated as a martial art and dance form.  Our student is a level 6.  It was fascinating watching him and the other students at the close of the class.  You could see how the other students were still at learner levels and the joy the teacher had in working with a student of a higher level.    To my uneducated eye they looked very similar in their abilities. 

Capoiera Class

We were encouraged to come back after class so I didn’t see a whole lot of the lesson (just catching the last 15 minutes or so).  The lads and I went for a walk up the street and having a hot chocolate to warm up a bit. .

On Thursday we headed out to the Royal Winter Fair.  We try to go every year…I think we’ve only missed two years in the past 16 years.  We took in the goat show, cow show, horse shows, saw the chickens and walked through all the booths. Hubby found these great workboots that he brought home with him, and I was sorely tempted by a pair I found, but… I didn’t bring them home, couldn’t justify the cost as nice as they were or not!  🙂

One of the highlights of the Royal for me is always watching the cart ponies.   Watching them drive on, and trot… I just thoroughly enjoy them.  This year my pick of the group came second and third. The lad’s pick came first as did hubby’s so they obviously knew something I didn’t this year!  🙂

We had the fun of watching a sheep dog demonstration this year.  The shepherd showed how the dogs progressed from puppy through experienced dog.  I think this was dog number three but I’m not sure.  (she had four dogs total).  Her last dog was so well trained and handled the sheep so prettily.

I have an affinity for chickens so I spent a good amount of time looking through the chickens at the royal.   They also had a pen with a variety of ducks in them.  I had a pet duck as a child so ducks always make me smile.

Watching these line dancers had the three guys walking away from me fairly quickly.   Took me a while to find them afterwards (they found seats in the horse arena) BUT it brought a smile to my face watching them!  🙂

Horse Show

We attended the Horse Show at night.  Watching the bigger horse teams, some small pony carts, and some horse trainer dude that none of us were wildly impressed with. The main event was show jumping…it was good to see Ian Millar out… but I said to hubby “boy. he’s getting old”. Two younger Millar’s were in the event as well. 

Horse Jumping at the Royal Winter Fair 2018

 

Royal Winter Fair, Two horse hitch

 

Four horse hitch, Royal Winter Fair

 

Royal Winter Fair Show jumping

The boys had some fun and thoroughly enjoyed the bag of free carrots we got.  They were tender and tasty and a great snack while watching the horses jump!

Royal Winter Fair, boys posing with carrots background

We saw some fun things at the exhibits.  The boys participated in a VR demonstration. They ate some good cheese (samples you know).  We did miss the cheese demonstration they normally do, and no free potatoes this year either.  🙁

Posing at the Royal Winter Fair

We were delighted by these topiaries!   Aren’t they wonderfully done?

We saw the butter sculptures and fruits/veggies.  Sheep, cattle and more. 

Butter sculptures at the Royal Winter Fair

The Livestock: 

All in all it was an excellent day.  Long, tiring, but fun.

Back to the Airbnb for lunch and then up early Friday Morning to go to our co-op class in Stratford.  Long drive but it turned out well.  I asked my Brazillian Student to teach Capoeira to my phys ed class and he said “I like it.  I like to teach the children”.   We did our presentation of our science class learning and called it a good vacation.   On the Saturday hubby and I did lunch out on our own while the boys hung out at home.
 

Filed Under: Homeschooling Tagged With: Vacation

Seven Reasons to Find a Writing Community

November 19, 2018 By Annette1 Leave a Comment

You know how easy it is for writers to write on their own? To stick to themselves, writing and reading on their own?  Anguishing over plot lines, fumbling over character development, musing over poetry lines, and waiting for the next blot of inspiration to hit. Sometimes we forget a rather important aspect of writing… having a community we can talk in.  Real people in life that we can talk to, gain inspiration from, realize that we aren’t alone and more.

seven reasons to find a writing community

You know how C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien founded the Inklings?   Feeling alone with their ideas that were out of the mainstream until they found each other and over ale and stories discovered encouragement.  Other men joining in, until they had a group of writers spurring each other on and offering ideas and inspiration to each other.

We are no different you know?   We need each other.  Do you know the benefits of having a community?

Benefits of having a community

  1. Encouragement/Support/Fun/Friendship – all wrapped up in one bundle.  Where would we be without good friends who share a similar interest?   How can we write alone all the time?  Where can we find the inspiration to go on when we don’t have others who share our hobby or interest?   In person or on-line, it’s great to have people you can laugh with, cry with, and just be with.
  2. Critique – A writing community will also want to help you do better at what you want to be best at.  They’ll critique you work in a building up manner, wanting to help you be the best you can be.
  3. Ideas – stuck?  Not sure what to do next or what word would fit well with your thought?  Struggling to understand a character you haven’t quite filled out yet?  Having a group of like minded souls can inspire you as you bounce ideas off each other.
  4. Mentoring/Education – Trying to figure out the best way to do something?  Stuck on what on-line platform to use, or what it means to tighten up a line or a paragraph?  Needing an answer to question that maybe someone else has already figured out?  Being part of a group is a good way to get those questions answered.. whether by you or another member.
  5. Accountability – ..have a goal.. like with NaNoWriMo 50,000 words in a month? Imagine you are all doing this encouraging each other, pushing each other along.  Have a deadline to get a poem in?   Or you need to do that mock up for an editor?
  6. Motivation – Stalling happens. Wouldn’t it be great to have a person who has been there done that be there to give you a nudge?  Tonight I was watching a show with hubby where a gal had given up doing her art, and another artist brought out a canvas and said GO… do it now.  Pushing her to return to a hobby loved. Giving her to motivation to do it for herself.
  7. Promotion/Publication – sharing our work.. whether it’s just for ourselves or for a larger audience, a writing community can and will help you with this.  Even if you only share within your group..a community gives you the opportunity to give a clearer voice to the words you write.  They can also host speaking events, or publish an anthology of your group works.

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Filed Under: Homeschooling, Writing Tagged With: encouragement, writing

World War 1: Soldiers in Training

November 17, 2018 By Annette1 Leave a Comment

Over the past week we’ve been studying soldiers in training.  Getting ready for the battle field, and being fit to fight is an important part in the life of a soldier.

Soldiers in Training, world war 1

It was actually harder than we thought to research this topic.  We couldn’t find a site that actually told us the training that soldiers had to undergo beyond the basics of physical fitness and drills.  We still managed to learn a bit, some of this based on what my lad is learning in army cadets this year.

Videos:

This video reminded my son of a reenactment he attended, where he had to practice running in a straight line carrying a gun.  I asked him, how would we practice this skill in real life.  He thought a while and then brought up the air rifles we have.  I suppose we too, can practice some of the skills to be soldiers in training. 

Surprise!  Horse training

One of the videos that popped us surprised us.  Army horse training.   In retrospect it makes sense, we just never really thought about how soldiers might need to be trained as well as the horses themselves.  First train the men, then train the horses. 

Gas Warfare

I never thought to think about soldiers in training having to focus on gas warfare, how to deploy it as well as how to protect themselves from it.   Last night we attended Christmas 1914 at Fanshawe Village and there was a fellow who talked with us a great length about gases used and the products used to protect the men from it.  It was hard and brutal and the knowledge gained was a big reason why it wasn’t used in World War 2.  world war 1 gas mask

My son said when it was on you couldn’t see anything and it was harder to breathe.  Can you imagine trying to run and fight and carry a full load while wearing one?   Just a hard job for those soldiers.  Helps us better understand the struggles they went through.  The video below shows German troops. While watching I wondered aloud how many times they would kill themselves. Apparently this was something my son had wondered about earlier and researched and the answer was YES, lots of times.  

Being Canadian, we appreciated this video and we found ourselves talking through it, sharing knowledge we learned from our individual research.  Did you know that Canadian soldiers were known for their ferocity during the First World War?

Modern day training!   My lad is inspired.

We learned that training is there to increase skill levels and physical fitness but also to help the soldiers bond as they work together.  This was part of the advantage of having “Pals” units as you had some of that cohesiveness already built in. I see this in my lad with the Army Cadet unit he is part of.  The more the boys do things together, talking, working, exercising, the more the unit is coming together as a unit.  Neat to observe.  🙂

Websites too!

Lest you think we only watched videos, we also took in a few websites.

Learning about the Canadians training at Valcartiers.  We admittedly spent a fair bit of time at this site exploring images, delving into other topics etc.

We learned about the Kitchener blue uniforms of the british.

Studied a PDF of the American training program that gave us excellent ideas for our own training program.  It’s LONG and we only looked the ww1.

Learned about elderly training officers in Britain and some of the problems that created.

Talked our way through the 8 steps to becoming a soldier in WW1.  Which led to hearing some of the training done in the WW1.   The lad was surprised to learn what PAL units in the war were all about.

We learned why soldiers drop and crawl when they are on an infantry line.  Makes sense once you stop and think about it.   See if you can discover why HERE. 

We also looked back at our day for the World War 1.  This was an excellent day for the lad with learning about order, disciplines, different aspects of the wars and so forth.  He still talks about it. 

Hands-on aspects:

We’ll be starting a training regime… physical fitness anyone?

My son and I were talking today about some of the things he wants to do.  He wants it to be something that we do together.  So starting next week he’ll be running around the block (I will walk as quickly as I can) and he’ll eventually catch up to me again.  We’ll do (for me some modification) sit ups, planks, push ups, leg lifts and squats.  Hopefully we can get dad involved as well.   How to fit it all in will be a lovely challenge for us.  🙂

I am going to get him (hopefully tomorrow sometime) to put together a spreadsheet for us to use.  Need to see if we are improving our abilities as that’s something that soldiers do as well.

Follow our studies:

  • Assassination
  • Pre-war Alliances
  • War Starts!
  • Belgium

 

 

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