In this post I explore the benefits of dressing up to children, relating it back to our homeschool history unit studies. Dressing up is, in many ways, the very essence of childhood. There is nothing more innocent or beguiling as a child dressing up as someone else and walking in their metaphorical shoes for a……
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Encouraging Early Writing Skills
In this post, I show how we, as a family, have been encouraging early writing skills by writing each other letters of love and appreciation ❤️ Encouraging Early Writing Skills by Creating a Pretty Letter Writing Kit We created a writing kit from bits and pieces around the house. We tried to take into consideration……
Resolutions of the New Year Kind
Before sharing this year’s resolutions, I’m going to reflect on the progress of last year’s. Start a YouTube Channel Last year my main goal was to start a YouTube channel. In this I have been partially successful. I have set up a YouTube channel and have filmed the first seven videos which will have gone……
The Importance of Quiet Time In Your Homeschool Day
If you’re looking for a way to add a daily quiet time to your homeschool routine, this blog post is for you! Read on to learn all about the importance of a daily quiet-time and how to incorporate it into your homeschool day. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00EPniQYMjw What is Quiet-Time? When we first had Thomas, Gary and I……
Adventure Box {Homeschool Unit Studies}
An adventure box is the perfect way to help your children become excited about learning! I first learnt about adventure boxes from Heather, who uses them as summer adventure boxes. I liked the idea so much I began using them for a book unit or history unit. In fact, we have used adventure boxes for……
Our Angelicscalliwags Homeschool
I thought it would be fun to look back over the ten or so years of loveliness which has created our Angelicscalliwags Homeschool. Believe it or not, it began before I had even given birth to my first child ❤️ It was love at first sight for all of them, even now they are great……
How to Make a History Board Game
As promised, here is how to make a history board game to reinforce learning. This board game is themed on the Trojan War and goes along with the fun week we had studying the Trojan War. Here is a photo of our final piece: The children and I had discussed our ideas and we all……
❤️ Engagement ❤️ and Other Things…
Congratulations Ads and Charlotte! Ads took Charlotte to Norway for their three year anniversary, and proposed to her there! Of course, she said yes ❤️ I can’t believe it is the 6th and I’m still not well. Whatever infection I have has caused a super, super itchy rash to develop over my body. The pharmacist thought it……
Stain-Glass Window Homeschool Lesson
In this stain-glass window homeschool lesson we will learn about the history of using coloured glass in windows, linking it with our current medieval history unit study. Resources for a Stain-Glass Window Homeschool Lesson We used the books we had around the house for this art study. Art of the Middle Ages is a book……
Homeschool Log Book {November}
This is all the work that the girls have completed over the last few weeks. These weeks have been filled with winter colds and bugs. We’ve needed to take days off here and there and it has felt more disjointed than I like. On the plus side, Abigail expressed the wish to do something more……
How to Make Viking Costumes
Dressing up is definitely the children’s area of expertise not mine. Whilst I may give pointers if I think something is inaccurate historically, mostly I just sit back and watch the process. Dressing up is a huge part of our presentation and I dread the day when one or more children come and say they……
Anglo-Saxon Homeschool Presentation
About twice a year our older children put on a presentation about the period they are studying. So far we have done astronomy, Ancient Mesopotamia, Ancient Egypt and Ancient Greece. Last night we had our Anglo-Saxon Homeschool Presentation. We are very fortunate to live in a village where we are well supported in our homeschooling endeavours. ……
Events Leading Up To The Battle of Hastings 1066
This lesson, which covers the events leading to the Battle of Hastings, is fun and thorough. Oh, and it involves dressing up as Knights! I hated history in school, apart from Henry VIII. He fascinated me. The rest however was plain boring. In particular I hated learning about wars and battles. A list of dates……
Hands-On Geography Activities {History Unit Studies}
This post shares lots of hands on geography activities which are perfect to use along with any history unit studies. Over the years we have studied many cultures, from ancient history all the way up to modern history and everything in between. Having a great set of geography activities to choose from is vital for……
How to Write a Good Paragraph
This post helps homeschool students learn how to write a good paragraph using an informational folder made especially for the job! So, if you’re a homeschooling mum and you want to find out how you can teach your child to write a good paragraph, read on! How to Write a Good Paragraph Learning how to……