Month: January 2014
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BFIAR 2nd Row: Goodnight Moon
Although we are currently doing Mr Men school with the younger two, A5 has been asking for more school. I have decided to go ahead with a rerow of some of the BFIAR titles. This will be just using note pages from various sources. A5 wants to school, not do more fun activities! These note […]
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Progress Report on the Individual Projects
This year I asked the children to choose one area of the historical period which would interest them enough to dig deeper on their own. The task was to put together a project on their chosen area and present it at our final medieval presentations in April (ish) time. They needed to come up with […]
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The Effects of the Crusades
This will be my last post on the crusades (ye ha! We’re done!). Just to get you in the mood for another information overload to do with the Holy wars, here’s a fun music video which towards the end handily touches on the effects of the crusades. There is one of the videos for almost […]
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One Year Pond Study: Week 43 – Checking out the Overflow
Here is our pond this week: The pond seems so quiet at the moment. There is little to report, with no gulls, two Moorhens and only four Mallards. The children went off exploring as I snapped away at the wildlife (and them): T12 has decided to write a letter to the RSPB (with whom he […]
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Looking Back: Ancient Greece – Spartans
I’ve found the rest of my photos pertaining to our ancient Greek studies (still can’t find my Roman ones) and thought I’d post some of them in a few ‘looking back’ posts. ‘Looking back’ posts are full of the learning we did prior to me keeping a blog. As they are part of our past […]
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Children’s Corner: An Introduction to the Angelicscalliwag Rag
Apologies for the double post today. This one was supposed to go out tomorrow! I’ve been thinking about a Children’s Corner for a while, a place my older ones can post and maybe make contact with some other home schoolers out there. Between us, we have decided to write an online magazine. This would be historical in nature, for […]
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Explorer Study: Ibn Battuta
I particularly wanted to study the Islamic, medieval explorer Ibn Battuta. Being a contemporary of Marco Polo, who we had studied at the beginning of the year, I felt a comparison study would be quite interesting. Both travelled widely throughout the Eastern Medieval world; both met with similar tribes and peoples; and most importantly both wrote about […]
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Mr Men School: Mr Happy
Literature We read the following books each day: And I also found a video of the book, which after we had read the story, the children watched on youtube: I printed out some writing for A5 to do and some pictures of Mr Happy for B2 to do whilst the older ones were doing maths. […]
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One Year Pond Study: Week 42 – Canada Geese Study
Thank you to everyone who was praying and thinking about me, and for all your good wishes and emails (and for Phil and Vicky for looking after our five children, so Gary could come with me). I had the scan this morning and they said it was nothing to worry about, just to keep an eye […]
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And Wings to Fly…
My blog header states ‘Homeschooling to give our children roots to ground them and wings to make them fly’. My goal in their younger years is to give the children principles to live by; a happy history to draw strength from and most importantly a love that stabilises them, that they can rely on to always be […]