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Precious Moments
This week has been as busy as ever. It started well with a trip to the beach: We make it a priority once a month to go and it occurred to me this time just how important this monthly trip is. Our children are growing into adults quicker than I can keep up. One day……
Continent Study: Antarctica – Digging Deeper
I still felt there was much to explore in our Antarctica study but we were running out of time. I chose three more, fairly effortless activities to do to wind up our studies. Modern autobiographies about visiting Antarctica Much of what we had learnt about this pole came from secondary sources, although we did look……
Ancient Egypt Unit Study
Welcome to my huge Ancient Egypt Unit Study post. The children seriously LOVED Egypt and they still ask every single fun week we have ‘could we pleeeeease do Egypt again’! We did a lot, so like Mesopotamia this will be spread out over a few weeks. Ancient Egypt Unit Study: Resources Factual Books Our reading load……
Artist Study: Michelangelo
Resources we used http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uOobsAtxsiM Biography of Michelangelo Having read the books and watched the two videos the children had a quick look at this website and then filled in a note page which I printed from Nadine’s excellent collection at Practical Pages: The Works of Michelangelo When choosing which pieces to focus on I returned……
Learning my ABC’s: Five Activities to Reinforce Letter Learning (Cc)
I dotted out the letters Cc onto a white sheet of paper and asked B4 to join the dots. This activity will help her remember how to write the letter Aa: We made the shape of Cc with our arms. This activity helped her to figure out how the shape of the letter looked and……
Genetics: Cell division – Meiosis
We are currently working through the specification for an IGCSE in Biology. The following is copied straight from that specification and is all the information we need to know about meiosis: Understand that division of a cell by meiosis produces four cells, each with half the number of chromosomes, and that this results in the formation……
Genetics: Cell division – Mitosis
We are currently working through the specification for an IGCSE in Biology. The following is copied straight from that specification and is all the information we need to know about mitosis: Understand that division of a diploid cell by mitosis produces two cells which contain identical sets of chromosomes. Understand that mitosis occurs during growth, repair,……
Genetics: DNA Replication
We have looked quite extensively at the structure of DNA as well as carrying out a study on the scientists who first discovered its structure and making our own models: The next thing the children needed to know about was DNA replication. This would be fairly important for their cell division lessons on Mitosis and Meiosis……
Learning My ABC’s: Five Ways to Reinforce Letter Learning (Bb)
I wrote out the letter Bb onto a piece of card stock and gave B4 some play dough to make up the letter from, using the home made play dough letter mat. This activity helped B to see and make the shape of a Bb: I wrote a big B and little b onto the……
Renaissance: Tudor Explorers – Ships and Sea Monsters
Resources The children read the information which came with Homeschooling in the Woods. This included ship anatomy, sea faring sayings and their meanings, ship and sailor vocabulary as well as a sea chantey Blow the Man Down: I also gave them the following books I bought in a library sale: Ship Anatomy Using the ship……
Renaissance: Tudor Social Classes
This week we spent some time looking at the social classes of the Tudor times. First we read about it using the write up from Homeschooling in the Woods and then read the appropriate chapters from the following book: I asked the girls to dress up as a member of each of the six most……
Learning My ABC’s: Five Activities to Reinforce Letter Learning (Aa)
I am currently teaching B4 her letters and their sounds. She is aware of some of them but I have not done anything formal. She has begun to ask to learn to read. Her sister (A6) is now fluent enough that she reads beginner chapter books to B4 and I whilst we are snuggling at……
Precious Moments this Week
Sometimes life sends you along a week which makes you realise how blessed you are just to be alive to experience such a week. The last few days have been like that for us. We have been in a half holiday, half back at school week, the sun has been shining, the children have been……
Learning my ABC’s: Thirty Days of Alphabet Fun
Well, not strictly my ABC’s. I know my ABC’s, but B4 doesn’t know hers and would like to so I am happily obliging. We began the beginning of this week and it was really fun. She really wants to learn and caught on fairly quickly. The plan is to cover a letter a day, five……