Month: April 2015
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Continent Study: Antarctica – Digging Deeper
I still felt there was much to explore in our Antarctica study but we were running out of time. I chose three more, fairly effortless activities to do to wind up our studies. Modern autobiographies about visiting Antarctica Much of what we had learnt about this pole came from secondary sources, although we did look […]
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Ancient Egypt Unit Study
This post includes all of the work we have done on Ancient Egypt. I will be starting a new unit with my little ones next year, so this will be added to. The children were aged about 7 when we studied Egypt. Egypt: Part 1- Resources Egypt: Part 2- Mummification Egypt: Part 3- Hieroglyphs Egypt: Part […]
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Artist Study: Michelangelo
Resources we used Biography of Michelangelo Having read the books and watched the two videos the children had a quick look at this website and then filled in a note page which I printed from Nadine’s excellent collection at Practical Pages: The Works of Michelangelo When choosing which pieces to focus on I returned to […]
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Learning my ABC’s: Five Activities to Reinforce Letter Learning (Cc)
I dotted out the letters Cc onto a white sheet of paper and asked B4 to join the dots. This activity will help her remember how to write the letter Aa: We made the shape of Cc with our arms. This activity helped her to figure out how the shape of the letter looked and […]
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Seasons of Joy – All things are possible….part 2
I think the first thing I learnt from reading through all the passages God highlighted for me is that He is to be our all, our everything. In some distorted version of the truth Food had become that for me. If I am being honest it had been since I was a child. But God […]
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Seasons of Joy : All things are possible…
This is the follow on post from last week’s Addiction post. It is a post I have not looked forward to writing. Using God’s word to try to explain something which has ultimately been a personal revelation from Him to me feels like a huge responsibility. Articulating it clearly and accurately feels hard and I […]
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Precious Memories
This is the post I usually use to document all the stuff that went on outside of school learning, only this week I took absolutely no photos. Can you believe it? I’m not sure that has ever happened before. I think I’ve been a bit preoccupied by my follow up post to Saturday’s post ‘Addicted, […]
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Genetics: Cell division – Meiosis
We are currently working through the specification for an IGCSE in Biology. The following is copied straight from that specification and is all the information we need to know about meiosis: Understand that division of a cell by meiosis produces four cells, each with half the number of chromosomes, and that this results in the formation […]
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Genetics: Cell division – Mitosis
We are currently working through the specification for an IGCSE in Biology. The following is copied straight from that specification and is all the information we need to know about mitosis: Understand that division of a diploid cell by mitosis produces two cells which contain identical sets of chromosomes. Understand that mitosis occurs during growth, repair, […]
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Genetics: DNA Replication
We have looked quite extensively at the structure of DNA as well as carrying out a study on the scientists who first discovered its structure and making our own models: The next thing the children needed to know about was DNA replication. This would be fairly important for their cell division lessons on Mitosis and Meiosis […]