This Mystery of the Night Watchers Review will cover a description of the book, my thoughts and recommendations for use within your home school. Mystery of the Night Watchers is written by A.M. Howell, the award-winning author of The Garden of Lost Secrets and The House of One Hundred Clocks. As an Amazon Associate, I……
Category: Homeschooling
Valentine’s Day
I scheduled this post to go live yesterday but it didn’t publish! So, a day late, I bring you a few Valentine’s Day fun posts. Over the years we’ve had some really special Valentine’s days (hmm, I’m not sure that is grammatically correct? Should it be Valentine days?). Gary has been away in Germany for……
Preschool Science: Colour & Fizz
In this post, I will be showing you how to have some fabulous homeschool, preschool science with colour and fizz! Read This! How to set up your own preschool science nook Preschool Science: Colour & Fizz Bicarb and Coloured Vinegar to Make the Colour & Fizz In this particular week’s preschool science, colour and fizz……
Girls’ Club
The idea for Girls’ Club came from the book below by Sally Clarkson: My family is everything to me. I am a huge introvert which for me means that I tend not to go out with friends that often. In fact, I have one very special friend, but I consider her more of a sister……
Creative Letter Writing Ideas
I was lost as to what to call this post. I’ve gone with creative letter writing ideas, but to be honest, it only gives one creative letter writing idea. I got absolutely no sleep last night…nada…zilch…zero. Needless to say, I am walking around like a brainless zombie, who is not certain what day it is,……
January Home-School {2025}
This is just going to be a quick post recording the main bulk of January home-school we have done over the past three weeks. Just to catch you up: Abigail is taking two GCSEs this summer, psychology and sociology, so we are focusing most of our efforts there. As she hopes to take maths and……
Making A6 Notebooks
I’ve had many attempts at making A6 notebooks. However, not having the right equipment was limiting as I wasn’t able to create the quality I wanted. In comes my incredible mum who gifted Gary and I some money at the end of last year. I spent mine on a long-arm stapler and an industrial sized……
Precious Moments {January 2025}
This month has gone by so quickly, and I find myself yearning for all the photos I forgot to take, memories I forgot to record and etch upon my blog. I frequently am enjoying myself so much that I forget to click away. The past few years I have not been so diligent in writing……
Medieval Knights Homeschool Lesson
This medieval knights homeschool lesson was our learning over the period of a week. We are deep into our medieval unit study and are flip flopping as topics interest us. The children have been reading so many great books set in the Middle Ages and which include knights (obviously!) and they have been playing loads……
Biblical Basis for Self-Directed Learning
My main goal for my children, right from the very start of homeschool, was that they become independent life-time learners. To encourage this, I would give them lots of choice. For example, when we did unit studies together, each child would also do a project of their choosing. At the end of the unit, the……
Pumpkin Mice Products
This is just a quick post showing you how I made some pumpkin mice products from my autumnal painting. In the video below I am making greeting cards, die-cut stickers, sticker sheets and framed prints. These will eventually be added to my shop, Angelicscalliwags Art. This painting has taken longer than most of my art……
Looking Back Over 2024
This year has been the most unexpected year of my life. Given I gave birth to three babies within the period of 9 months and 2 weeks, I don’t say this lightly! This is going to be a long rambling kind of post, looking back over 2024, which I will try to break up with……
Preparing for Christmas with Last Year’s Christmas Pyjamas!
I’ve had so much fun eeking out the material from Becca’s old Christmas pyjamas making lots of lovely items. Six Christmas decorations for the tree, a hairband, some heatless curlers and a Christmas garland for the fireplace. All this from just one pair of pjs! Oh, and I filmed it so you too can embellish……
Domesday Book Homeschool Lesson
I’m all for fun school work. I know that sometimes in life one simply has to knuckle down and do the work regardless of the fun factor or lack there of. However, as Mary Poppins once said ‘a spoonful of sugar makes the medicine go down’ (I’m currently breaking off into song – you should be glad……
Language and Structure in the English IGCSE Exam
The student’s knowledge of language and structure in the English IGCSE exam is tested throughout the two exams. This post is primarily focused on question 4 of paper 1. It will walk you through answering this 12 mark question and so help your student be confident in gaining top marks. Find out more: You can……