Nineteenth Century History: 1870-1880 {David Livingstone: Medicine Man, Explorer and Missionary}
The children learnt all about David Livingstone, a Victorian doctor who traveled to Africa as a missionary. We read theContinue Reading
Category: History – Victorians
Victorian Unit Study: Sherlock Holmes’ Museum
Do you remember when the teens did their Around London in 8 Destinations? One of their destinations was the SherlockContinue Reading
Grimm’s Fairy Tales: Sleeping Beauty
The second fairy tale we covered was Sleeping Beauty. As I read the original out loud to the girls IContinue Reading
Impressionist Artist Study: Degas
For her project last term Lillie learnt all about the Impressionist painters. She studied one artist for two weeks. TheContinue Reading
Nineteenth Century History: 1840-1850 {Charles Dickens and the Poor}
Oh my, I had fun this week! The children not so much, but I took huge delight in threatening toContinue Reading
How to Experience the Life of a Working Class Victorian
This was a small social experiment the children and I carried out over one school day. We will be doingContinue Reading
Laundry the Victorian Way
The girls tried their hand doing laundry the Victorian way. Laundry was a hard, hard job which Victorian women didContinue Reading
Grimm’s Fairy Tales – Cinderella
I was very excited about this unit! I’d had so many ideas floating about in my head with regards to oneContinue Reading
Nineteenth Century History: 1830-1840 {Victorian Era: Queen Victoria and Prince Albert}
This post is a hodge podge of all things Victorian Related that we have studied over the past three monthsContinue Reading
Who Owns the Sun {FIAR}
As part of our slavery mini unit, I thought I would take the little ones through two Five in aContinue Reading