….how we incorporate passions in our little homeschool, pop over to Jen’s blog where she interviewed Lillie about her jewellery and her hopes for the future. It is a lovely interview, and for me very affirming with regards to how we homeschool. Please do pop over and support Jen as she brings the experiences of……
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Around the World in 80 Days: Day Four
Today we read the next four chapters so that we could free up some time to look at Steam Punk on day 5. Chapter 7: Which Once More Demonstrates the Uselessness of Passports as Aids to Detectives Phileas Fogg gets his passport Visaed in Suez and manages to avoid getting arrested by Fix, who doesn’t……
Around the World in 80 Days: Day Three
I was really looking forward to today as I had read ahead and seen that Fogg and Passepartout covered a lot of ground geographically speaking, which meant lots of opportunities to learn. We were also introduced to the protagonist, Fix, an inspector who has got it into his head that Fogg is the bank robber.……
Around the World in 80 Days: Day Two
On the second day of our summer adventure, we read two more chapters, continued learning lots and ended the day with a Byron poetry reading tea party. Chapter 3: Phileas Fog makes a wager that is likely to cost him dear Phileas Fogg believes he can circumnavigate his way around the world, and is willing……
Around the World in 80 Days: Day One
Okay, so I was going to write one post summing up the week, but I knew when it had reached 4000 words it would be too much. But I did want to record all we had done, for the children and I guess if some one wanted to do something similar, all the ideas would……
How to Create an ‘Around the World in 80 Days’ Scrap Book
To make a personalised, large Around the World in 80 Days scrap book gather up the following: Butcher’s Paper: This is one of the staples of our home school, which we use for decoration, for creating news paper, art and scrap books: Scrap booking Paper: I obtained a lot of very useful vintage paper free……
Fun, Hands-On Dinosaur Unit: Sauropods – Diplodocus
This week’s focus for our dinosaur unit has been the dinosaurs from the Sauropods group using Diplodocus as an example, and we have had heaps of hand-on fun! Dinosaurs are classified into two groups dependent on the position of the hips: Saurischia (lizard hipped dinosaurs) Ornithiscia (bird hipped dinosaurs) The Saurischia are further divided into Theropods and Sauropods,……
Talking Fingers Review
We are reviewing the new online version of the Talking Shapes: A Supplemental Curriculum for Early Literacy app from Talking Fingers Inc. What is Talking Shapes? Talking shapes is a program which teaches young children to learn how to recognise letters and write them within the context of short three-letter words. Its pretext is that……
Curriculum Choices for my Older Children (September 2016-December 2016)
Family Studies 830-9am Bible Studies: Apologia ‘Who am I?’ (Monday): Youth Bible Videos for the Girls – these will be shown on the day that Thomas will be at college (Tuesday): Beauty by the book for teens: Laurie Cole (7 weeks) Dream Big (4 weeks) Israel Unit Studies: Wednesday Youth Bible Study Videos: Thursday……
Around the World in 80 Days Summer Adventure
I was planning on taking full advantage of the fact that Thomas wouldn’t be around for much of the summer and actually take a break. We had already completed five weeks of summer writing (something I really want to work on over the next year), and I had let the children know nothing more……
Venezuelan Art Study: Santiago Pol
As part of our South American studies we looked into well known Venezuelan artist Santiago Pol. Santiago Pol, born in Barcelona, Spain, states this about Venezuela: “If Venezuela did not exist, I would not exist as a designer” A leading figure in Venezuelan graphic art, Pol carried out his studies in Fine Arts at the School……
Star Toaster {TOS Review}
When we were asked to review Orphs of the Woodlands at Tangletree from Star Toaster I knew the perfect time for my seven year old to try it out. Each night, I tuck both B5 and A7 to bed at the same time. Each night A7 struggles to get to sleep because she simply does not need……
Why Angelicscalliwags?
Inspired by Ticia’s post about why she called her blog Adventures in Mommydom, I thought I would share why I called my blog Angeliscalliwags and why on earth I spell it differently to how the dictionary spells it 🙂 https://angelicscalliwags.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/family-and-party-pics-186.jpg Slightly less than a decade ago I had three five year olds. I knew we……
Using our Paper Mache Map to Learn about the Anglo Saxons
To see instruction on how to build a paper mache map click here. Once the paper mache map had been painted and left to dry, the children were ready to begin pictorially displaying some of the learning they had done about the Anglo Saxons. Offa’s Dyke Offa’s Dyke, named after one of the strongest rulers……
Precious Moments
This week has been fairly chilled as we take a summer break in the first time in forever. The weather has been gorgeous and almost too hot at times. Thomas is over with his Northern Irish relatives, spending lots of time with his cousins and, as far as we can tell, having an absolute ball!……