I have been in a quandary as far as teaching my little ones goes. I always thought I would simply teach them in the same way as I taught my older ones, by working our way through the history of mankind. In fact we did start with a Dinosaur Unit Study followed by a Mesopotamia……
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Around the World with FIAR: Asia Unit Study
Around the World with FIAR: Barbar {India and Monsoons} Around the World with FIAR: Grass Sandals {Japan and its Volcanoes} Around the World with FIAR: Grandfather’s Journey {Japan and its Tsunamis} Around the World with FIAR: A Story about Ping {China, Wetlands and Typhoons} Around the World with FIAR: A Pair of Red Clogs {China and the Giant Panda} Around……
Angelicscalliwags Catch Up and Plans for Next Year: Charlotte
Charlotte has big plans this year which are almost completely opposite in nature to her twin sister’s. I find it so interesting that two girls who have rarely been apart in the past fifteen years, and have been brought up exactly the same, are so completely different in their personalities and interests. Having finished her……
Look What We’ve Got…
A new to us mini bus!!!! Our last car, a Ford Galaxy, seated the seven of us, but it really was getting too small. We had been talking about buying a slightly bigger car, but it didn’t seem right as we had a perfectly good car. So we made do. A few weeks ago our……
Another Celebrated Dancing Bear {Russia}
Another Celebrated Dancing Bear is one of the fabulous collection of books from the Five in a Row curriculum. It is set in Russia. We used it along with the FIAR text books and lots of other books and activities. Unhappy with his lot in life working at the local hospital, Boris struggles to congratulate……
The Crafty Classroom {Review}
Over the past few weeks my younger girls have been using How to Write a Paragraph from The Crafty Classroom: What is ‘How to Write a Paragraph’? ‘How to Write a Paragraph’ is exactly what you would expect. It is a simple downloadable pack which takes a child through all the steps of writing a……
Angelicscalliwags Catch Up and Plans for Next Year: Lillie
I am so excited about Lillie’s school work this year! I think she is going to have an absolute ball, and I am completely jealous that I didn’t have the same opportunity when I was her age 🙂 With Lillie we are keeping it very vocational. For years now she has wanted to start up……
Fathers and Daughters
My daughter is trying to blog daily. She gets up at 630 each morning to have time to do it. I love reading what she writes. She is growing into an incredible young lady. This is her latest post about her Daddy….
Doctor Aviation {Review}
A month or so ago the review crew were given the opportunity to be on a rather unusual review – a video course all about Aviation from Doctor Aviation. Aviation…how cool is that? Of course with a fifteen year old male in the house, we jumped at the chance and we are so pleased we……
Fascinating Education {Review}
Charlotte has been independently completing Fascinating Biology from Fascinating Education, which we thought might be a good go-along to the IGCSE Biology she will be starting next year. What is Fascinating Biology? Fascinating Biology is an audio-visual course which fulfils all the high school requirements for Biological Science. Using powerful images to illustrate sometimes hard to understand……
Hands on History with Home School in the Woods {Review}
I am fast becoming Home School in the Woods biggest fan! I was blessed once more when I was chosen as one of the reviewers of their Time Traveler American series. I had a choice of New World Explorers, Colonial Life, The American Revolution, The Early 19th Century, The Civil War, Industrial Revolution through Great Depression and World War II. As we were……
Portraiture {Learning the Art Basics}
This post will describe all of Lillie’s portraiture work. Lillie is doing so incredibly well with her art. We requested a change of tutor, not because there was anything wrong with the one we had, but because we wanted more input into what Lil was doing well and what she needed to improve upon. We……
Drawing Cutlery {Learning the Art Basics}
Lesson five was all about drawing cutlery. The actual purpose wasn’t that one needs to become a connoisseur at drawing a knife and fork; no, the real reason why learning to draw cutlery is so important is on account of its shiny surface. Shiny, reflective surfaces are notoriously difficult to capture accurately and the artist……
Archimedes {Mathematician Study}
The first mathematician study we covered was Archimedes. Archimedes was a well known mathematician and inventor, alive during 287-212 BC in Ancient Greece. Well known for the Archimedes’ Principle and the Archimedes’ Screw, he was most interested in catoptrics, mechanics and pure maths. Archimedes Resources First, we learnt all about Archimedes by first reading the……
Maths Investigations using Penrose, the Mathematical Cat: Investigating Polygons
I have written before about our change to a living maths approach using Life of Fred as our backbone, and I think I might have mentioned wanting to spend some of our time investigating a certain aspect of numbers in greater depth. I have a few maths based books, but Penrose the cat is by……