Month: February 2017
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Georges Seurat {Impressionist Artist Study}
Last term Lillie spent a few happy weeks learning all about the Impressionist painters. She studied one artist for two weeks. This week’s artist is Georges Seurat who is well known for his pointillism. Georges Seurat: Resources She used the following books throughout her project: As well as the courses found here: Resources Specific […]
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Precious Moments During February
February is notoriously horrible for me and yet….. ….this year it hasn’t been so bad. Not because I haven’t felt the usual sluggishness and a complete inability to concentrate. No. The reason it hasn’t been all bad is because for the first time I haven’t tried to battle it. Accepting that one’s performance will be […]
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Home School in the Woods: Ancient Egypt {Review}
What is HISTORY Through the Ages Project Passport World History Study: Ancient Egypt? HISTORY Through the Ages Project Passport World History Study: Ancient Egypt is the brain child of Amy Pac and her family run company Home School in the Woods. The concept is a good one. The student is given everything he or she needs […]
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Grimm’s Fairy Tale: Sleeping Beauty
The second fairy tale we covered was Grimm’s Fairy Tale: Sleeping Beauty. As I read the original out loud to the girls I reflected how simple the tales were, with very little detail to them at all. I wondered how the Grimm brothers would have reacted to their short fairy tales being made into over […]
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Values in Graphite {Learning the Art Basics}
This is the second post in Lillie’s series about learning the basics in art. Lesson two saw Lil investigating values in graphite. Values in Graphite: Value Scales Values describes how light or dark a colour is in a picture. It is probably the most important thing an artist needs to understand. Values allow the artist […]
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Hands-on Anglo Saxons Unit Study for Homeschoolers
Just gathering all my Anglo-Saxon posts into one place to make finding them a bit easier. This was a very hands-on unit study, with lots of resources, map making and activities. The children carried out some literature work based on Beowulf, and created a Beowulf newspaper. The study culminated with the children giving a fabulous […]
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Edgar Degas {Impressionist}
For her project last term Lillie learnt all about the Impressionist painters. She studied one artist for two weeks. The latest has been Edgar Degas, which was very nearly a disaster! But Lillie came up trumps and I think we both agreed that this was one of her best studies 🙂 Edgar Degas: General Resources […]
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Native Australian Dress-Up
The first thing I wanted to do was to make some Native Australian Dress-Up for the little ones to play in. Even if do say so myself, I was very creative when I made this dress up out of some packaging material which came with a refrigerator part I ordered. Step-by-Step: How to make Native Australian […]
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Charles Dickens {Victorian Unit}
This week our focus was on Charles Dickens and the Victorian poor. Oh my, I had fun this week! The children not so much, but I took huge delight in threatening to starve my children with a Poor Law diet….in fact, I ‘made’ them be poor Victorians for a day. Yes, a day. The fuss […]
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Times Tables the Fun Way {Review}
I was excited to receive a three months subscription to an incredible maths product from Times Alive online lessons with animated songs and stories to learn times tables the fun way. A8 needed a refresh on some of her tables and it was the perfect time to begin memorising some of the easier tables with B5. […]