Home Schooling Resources

I’m going to spend this week of posts giving you some great Thanksgiving resources.  My favorite Thanksgiving resource is the children’s book Cranberry Thanksgiving.  My children and I have enjoyed this book so much.  We read it all year long.

The story is set in New England and features a little girl named Maggie, her grandmother, and their neighbor “Mr. Whiskers.”  Grandmother is not too fond of Mr. Whiskers because she thinks he is trying to steal the recipe for her famous cranberry bread.

For Thanksgiving each year, Maggie and her grandmother each invite one person to dinner.  This year Maggie invited Mr. Whiskers, the uncouth bachelor neighbor, and grandmother invited a new man in town who “smells of lavender.”

I’ll leave you hanging there and won’t spoil the story for you. Cranberry Thanksgiving is a must read this Thanksgiving, whether you have read the book before or not.

My favorite part about this book is what you can do with it once you’re done reading.  Grandmother’s Famous Cranberry Bread Recipe is printed in the back of the book.  Probably the first thing your children will want to do once you finish reading the book is to make that cranberry bread!  We have made it and, I must say, that it tastes really good!

Another thing that you can do is go over to the Ocean Spray Cranberry site on the Internet.  They have done a wonderful job with their site.  Their commercials, themselves, are worth the chuckle.  They have health information, kids activities, recipes, history, and more.  This site is awesome.  Their kids section is top notch.  They have several areas that your children can explore – Cooking and Crafts, About Cranberries, Games, School Activities, and a cute little set of cartoons featuring Wade and Wonderberry.

Did you know that the cranberry is called the wonderberry?  The site shows you a live camera of what the cranberry bog looks like right now. You can get information all about cranberry bogs, history of the area, history of cranberries, and history of grapefruits.

I was also impressed by the school information they had listed here.  The papers that they suggest students print out and take to school can very easily be used for homeschooling too.

Along with Cranberry Thanksgiving, I suggest you check out OceanSpray.com too.  You won’t see anything about Pilgrims and Indians here, but you will get a great story and some great information.

Originally posted 2008-11-17 16:23:39. Republished by Blog Post Promoter