My boys and I just began a  Beautiful Feet Geography curriculum called Paddle to the Sea.  We read the first three chapters today and tonight my husband is enjoying helping the boys with some detail work on their maps.  I think it is going to be a fun unit study and a different way to learn geography. This story begins with a young Indian boy who wishes he could see more of the world.  Since he cannot leave for his own canoe  adventure,  he  carves a little canoe with a figure inside and names him Paddle-to-the-Sea. Paddle’s journey, in text and pictures, through the Great Lakes to the Atlantic Ocean provides an excellent geographic and historical picture of the region. If you purchase the maps…or make up your own you can follow Paddle-to-the-Sea and learn your geography while enjoying the adventure.

To my delight I just discovered a movie made years ago that tells the story of paddle to the sea!!! I’m looking forward to watching this with my family.  Blessings,  Anne

Don’t forget to turn off the website music before beginning the film 😉

John Bunyan, The Pilgrim’s Progress
Who would true valour see,
Let him come hither;
One here will constant be,
Come wind, come weather.
There’s no discouragement
Shall make him once relent
His first avowed intent
To be a Pilgrim.

Who so beset him round
With dismal stories,
Do but themselves confound;
His strength the more is.
No lion can him fright,
He’ll with a Giant fight,
But he will have a right
To be a Pilgrim.

Hobgoblin nor foul fiend
Can daunt his spirit;
He knows he at the end
Shall life inherit.
Then, fancies, fly away;
He’ll not fear what men say,
He’ll labour night and day
To be a Pilgrim.