Castle View Academy

Overnight Ottawa Layover With a Surprise

This year the children and I flew back to Canada to visit family and friends. It was a long trip, totaling 35 hours from door to door to get there. After driving to Belfast, taking a bus to Dublin, then having an 8-hour layover in Toronto, we then had another 7-hour layover in Ottawa from midnight to 7:00am. We thought it was simply going to be a quiet night... The children had been awake almost the entire time since leaving home, and were very tired by the time we reached Ottawa, as ... read more

The Strangest Ever Tour of Regina, Canada (Kids Love Advertisements)!

The Strangest Ever Tour of Regina, Canada with Castle View Academy

If you thought our posts about Joylab and having my husband join us on vacation virtually were fun, answer me this...what is the strangest city tour you've ever been on? Mine was certainly our summer trip home to Regina, Canada...thanks to Z99 Regina and their advertisements! This post may contain affiliate links through which I may receive a small commission. As you know, children often learn all the words to advertisements so quickly and those advertisements can stick with you as ... read more

A Manga Lover’s Tokyo Travel Guide

If you're planning a trip to Tokyo and you enjoy manga, look into A Manga Lover's Tokyo Travel Guide; it's so fun! From high-tech and high-fashion to no tech and budget-wise, there is lots of information in this fun book. It certainly isn't you general manga; it's a practical travel guide with buckets of valuable information that is illustrated in a fun way so that you're more likely to remember it. This post may contain affiliate links through which I may receive a small ... read more

Little House on The Prairie Study Guide From Progeny Press

Little House on The Prairie Study Guide Review

We've used Progeny Press a few times in the past, so we are pleased to review Little House on the Prairie Study Guide (Grades 4-6), which is a childhood classic. The timing of this unit study worked in so well with our field trips, too, so they complimented each other. I remember my teacher, Mrs. Wolf, reading Little House on the Prairie to my class in elementary school, and I have been planning on sharing this book with my children. It was already in the plan for this fall after we ... read more

Foraged Plum And Apple Crumble Recipe

Foraged Plum & Apple Crumble Recipe from Castle View Academy homeschool

Over the past few weeks the children and I have been very, very busy learning about all sorts of things, and spending time with nature. They were inspired by the Biodiversity Summer School foraging that they do each year, and this year they made their own plum and apple crumble using the fruit they gathered themselves. The kids loved hunting and finding fruit that was nice and ripe and picking it themselves. Each year that the orchard grows, the fruit gets bigger; but at the same time, ... read more