Remember the Little House on the Prairie summer we had last year? The one where we made our own little house, painting, decorating and making furniture, whilst learning all sorts of skills along the way? I had been pondering a Native American unit in the same vein, but it seemed such a vast topic, I……
Category: Homeschooling
Reflections on our Term
To all intents and purposes this has been an incredibly successful term. We have by some miracle covered both history and science in equal measures using different forms of project based learning for each. For history the children used the more regular type of project based learning whereby they chose an area of interest to……
Angelicscalliwags Homeschool: Morning Meeting
I have no intention of resurrecting our home school series, but I did want to add an extra post on our morning meeting. Our school, whilst fundamentally remaining the same as ever before has taken on a move towards independence and project based learning. The morning meeting however has stood the test of time. This meeting,……
Wibbly Wobbly Weightloss – Losing Weight the Wibbly Wobbly Way: Week 9
I’m a bit late with this post, not to mention being a bit distracted by various birthdays and birthday parties this week. Last night we had A6’s spa party and I’m exhausted. Next time we’re going to a farm or something! Well, probably not. Knowing myself, as I do, I’ll have recovered by tomorrow and……
Precious Memories
This week we have been inching ourselves back into full-time school with Maths, morning meetings, and A5’s reading, writing and arithmetic. It has been really good to be back working again. Even though we only had 2 weeks off it was enough to refuel my tank and regain my enthusiasm for home school as well as allow……
Microbes: Ebola Virus Study
When I chose to study Ebola as an example of a virus, it was in January, before the out break in Africa. It was a difficult decision to go ahead with the study, when the children were being exposed on a daily basis, through newspapers and radio reports, to the ravaging affects Ebola was having……
Project Based Homeschooling: Mona Lisa Picture Study
Great Resources to Have on Hand Becoming Leonardo L decided to journal as she did her research and called her journal ‘Becoming Leonardo’. Her goal was to really to try to get into his head and try to understand what it was that made him tick. This was her own idea and her own journal,……
Project Based Homeschooling: Gutenberg’s Printing Press
Great Resources to have on hand Making a Wooden Model of the Printing Press We had already done a bit of work on the printing press and Gary and T had put together the model of Da Vinci’s design, which was very similar to Gutenberg’s: Making your own rag paper http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XoTGFC-0NAÈ T ripped up……
Project Based Homeschooling: Making A Chaucer Newspaper
Great Resources to Have on Hand The Content of the Newspaper Many of these activities we did together, but C11 loves anything literary and asked if her project could focus on Chaucer rather than Da Vinci. Of course I said yes, and together we decided that her main project could be creating a newspaper containing……
Wibbly Wobbly Weightloss – Losing Weight the Wibbly Wobbly Way: Week 8
Hello everyone! I’ve been itching to get back to blogging and have missed the interaction we all have each day. I’m guessing most of you will have started your new year/term by now. I do hope it is all going well for you all. We start back on Monday and I’ll be sharing some of……
Seven things you could all do without knowing about me….
A week or so ago, Sue from Stories of an Unschooling Family nominated me for an award. I am someone who is unsure what to do when given an award. Of course it is lovely to know someone enjoys reading your blog and I really am trying to embrace that rather than the awkwardness I……
Wibbly Wobbly Weightloss and a Blogging Break
Wibbly Wobbly Weightloss We’re a bit early this week, for reasons which will become clear at the end of the post. It has been a great week for healthy eating and healthy dates with my husband. On Monday Gary and I played 50 minutes of badminton. My heart and lungs were burning, I ached all……
Fibonacci, Da Vinci and the Golden Ratio
In my last Fibonacci post I wrote about how Fibonacci set himself a question and then went about answering it. The resulting sequence has been intrinsically linked to the golden ratio ever since. I am very grateful for Denise’s input in the comments section of that particular post because I was still confused. How on earth did……
Help please….
We are all making headway choosing curriculum for this academic year. However, I am struggling to find something I can use as a first aid curriculum/guidance. One of L’s electives is first aid but I’m coming up empty. Would anyone have any ideas? Also C wants to do a second creative writing course as one of……
Artist Study: Da Vinci and his Horses
Over the past few days school has been replaced by horses. We have been studying, taking photos of, drawing and studying drawings of horses. We have tried (unsuccessfully) to become as obsessed with horses as Leonardo Da Vinci was. Horses just don’t float our boats with quite the same vigour that they obviously did for……