Month: March 2019
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Astronomy Unit Study: Unit 13 – Stars and the Kuiper Belt
The last post for our astronomy unit! This week we learnt all about the Stars and the Kuiper Belt. Stars and the Kuiper Belt: Reading and Note Taking I had the girls partnership read their way through the penultimate chapter: They wrote notes, trying to include all they remembered: Stars and the Kuiper Belt: Twinkling […]
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Art Lab for Kids: Anne O Smith Artist Study – Bird Walk Scribble Drawing
Anne O Smith Scribble Drawings: Introduction I am really loving Art Lab for Kids. It is so simple to use, takes very little time and the labs are interesting and unusual enough to capture the imagination of the girls. Art Lab 3 is about scribble drawings. It is fascinating to see recognisable pictures take shape […]
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A Year in the Life of a Home-Schooling Family: Day 81
It’s just a quick post today, as everyone is out with friends for the afternoon, and we had finished most of our school for the week yesterday. I did almost finish our Passover book, went over Latin vocab, times tables and read some more about Roman houses for our unit study. I read another chapter […]
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A Year in the Life of a Home-Schooling Family: Day 80
Sometimes the day starts skewered, and today was that day. I woke at the fairly respectable time of seven. Within minutes I had Lillie telling me she was leaving for work, Charlotte bathed and fully dressed with chores completed joking about with an also fully dressed Thomas asking me which weekly chores I wanted him […]
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A Year in the Life of a Home-Schooling Family: Day 79
I woke up this morning to the littles almost done with their workbooks for the day. Apparently they’d been up early and organised their day. Hmmm. I’m fairly certain that was my job to do? Actually, they’d only planned up to the end of their work books. Y’know, dress, teeth, hair, breakfast, workbooks… Not sure […]
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A Year in the Life of a Home-Schooling Family: Day 78
Wow! What a day! I wish every day could be this wonder filled, and productive. I feel like super woman with many super children! Where to start? Lillie took Charlotte out last night at sun set to snap some photos for her final portrait photography. She is doing a set of four or five photos […]
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A Year in the Life of a Home-Schooling Family: Day 77
The morning started as normal. Thomas was at work; Lillie was going into town for a first aid course for her work and Charlotte went over to mum’s house to be tested on her Latin vocab and grammar: The littles got a good start on their workbooks for the day: In fact, Becca managed to […]
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Homeschooling with MEL Science: Making Liquid Wires
Each Tuesday afternoon I get to spend time with my precious Abigail. Usually, we do some chemistry together from MEL Science. Abigail has a monthly subscription (her Christmas present this year). Last week we made Liquid Wires from her third MEL Chemistry box, all about zinc-carbon batteries. Liquid Wires: Preparation Always, the first thing Abigail does […]
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Homeschool Living Maths: Life of Fred – Edgewood
Yes, we are still using Life of Fred Maths, because the girls remember it! It’s that simple. That said, as they are also doing the ACE program in its entirety, it also means they are getting stacks of maths practice. Something they are not too enamoured by! The girls are resolutely and uncompromisingly not fans […]
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Giant Ink Drawings {Art Lab for Kids}
Giant Ink Drawings – Practice Art Lab 2 was on Giant Ink Drawings. The girls had never drawn with ink and brushes before. So, I set them up a simple still life for them to practice. They used their sketch pads for this. Here is the still life: I encouraged the girls to really study […]