This was our last week on the Elizabethan Times. The children still have one further week to finish up the Pirate's of the Golden Age projects and we will be doing a five week unit on Shakespeare over the summer. Biography This week we finished Elizabeth I: The People’s Queen: We learnt about Elizabeth's later years…
Category: History – Tudors & Stuarts
Elizabethan Unit study: Week Four: Drake and the Spanish Armada
Biography This week we continued to read the next couple of chapters from our main core book: We learnt about the political and religious back drop to the Spanish declaring war on the British, and the resultant failure of the attack by the Spanish Armada. The Reformation I’ve shared these books before but for cohesion…
Elizabethan Unit Study: Week Three
Biography We continued to read the next two chapters of Elizabeth I: The People’s Queen. We learnt a lot about Mary, queen of Scots and were introduced to the necessity of spy craft to keep abreast of any threats to the throne. We also read about the queen's progresses or road trips and how the queen…
Renaissance: Tudor Explorers Unit Study
Week 1 - Introduction and Resources Week 2 - Making a Paper Mache Map Week 3 - The Urge to Explore Week 4 - Preparing for the Journey Week 5 - Ships and Sea Monsters Week 6 - Navigation part 1 - How to make a Chip Log to calculate Speed Week 7 - Navigation…
Elizabethan Unit Study: Week Two:
Biography We continued to read the next two chapters of Elizabeth I: The People's Queen: We learnt that Edward never actually got to rule England as a man, dying of Tuberculosis in 1553. Lady Jane Grey ruled after him for just nine days before Edward's half sister Mary became England's very first Queen Regnant, meaning…
Elizabethan Unit study: Week One: A Renaissance Queen
Biography This week I introduced them to the two main non fiction books we would be using over the next five weeks: The children read the whole of Good Queen Bess on Monday, independently, whilst I began reading Elizabeth I: The People's Queen. I am attempting two chapters each week to ensure we'll be finished…
Renaissance: Tudor Social Classes
This week we spent some time looking at the social classes of the Tudor times. First we read about it using the write up from Homeschooling in the Woods and then read the appropriate chapters from the following book: I asked the girls to dress up as a member of each of the six most…
Tudors and Stuarts: Explorers – Preparing for the journey
We spent this weeks session learning about preparing for a long and arduous journey of exploration. We read from the Great Atlas of Exploration and the information from Homeschool in the Woods about the life of an explorer. We learnt about provisions and made some of our own. Provisions for the journey We wrote a…
Renaissance: Tudors & Stuarts – Resources
This year we will be covering the time period between 1485 to 1714, otherwise known as the time when England was ruled by the Tudors and Stuarts. We are doing a separate study focusing on the explorers of this time, and over the summer we will be immersing ourselves in Shakespeare. For the next wee while…
Tudors & Stuarts: Explorers – Introduction and Resources
Hear ye, hear ye... I made a scroll to read out to the children during our first lesson, calling them to become Tudor Explorers extraordinaire. I was hoping to hook their enthusiasm early on in our study and I wasn't disappointed. A6 and I made the scroll by printing out the words in old English…