In our Incr-Edible Science last week, we made some rather revolting lemonade. If I'm honest, calling it lemonade is a stretch. It was fizzy and it has lemon in it. 'Nuff said! This week, our goal was to explore some more lemonade science to see if we could create a more palatable lemonade. Read More!…
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Pond Study: Spring Fauna at the Pond {Week 4}
This post journals the fourth week of our one year pond study in which we focus on counting the spring fauna at the pond. Here is our gorgeous pond this week: Today was freezing. So cold. Too cold for being outside too much! Catch Up! If you’ve missed any of my pond posts, you can…
Pond Study: Ash Tree Study {Week 3}
This post journals the third week of our one year pond study in which we begin our study on the Ash tree. We will be keeping an eye on this tree for the whole 12 months, so do check back. It was wet and overcast this week at the pond Catch Up! If you've missed…
Pond Study: Pond Pollution {Week 2}
This post journals the second week of our one year pond study in which we focus on learning about pond pollution. For week 1 see here. We decided to concentrate on pond pollution with a goal to see if it changes over the year. This Week's Pond Here was the pond that greeted us last…
The Science of Lemonade {Incr-Edible Science}
Last week, during our Incr-Edible Science, the children and I discovered the joys of making atoms, molecules and compounds out of sweeties! Better than that we all actually understood the concepts. Although I took chemistry at advanced level, I always found it hard to understand. I think I only passed by working incredibly hard learning everything…
Castles Homeschool Lesson
We are in the middle of a Medieval Unit Study right now. This post will be going hand in hand with my knights' post of last week. When I was planning our castles homeschool lesson, I knew this was an opportunity to a practical, more field trip based learning. So I asked Gary if he…
Medieval Re-enactment
As we are currently studying all things medieval, I thought I'd include some photos of a medieval re-enactment we attending when the children were much younger. We love going to re-enactments (and a medieval re-enactment is surely the best!) and I think secretly the children would quite like to get involved in one themselves (lots of…
Edible Science {Incr-Edible Science}
Having four young girls and at least two of them being passionate about being in the kitchen, I thought I would take a bit of time and create a curriculum that not only teaches my children how to cook but also teaches them why ingredients work as they do. The science of cooking, if you…
Pond Study: Pond Assessment {Week 1}
I love nature. Our family loves nature. It's really, really healthy to be out in nature. And, I am a homeschool mum. This means there is a certain expectation to make everything education. So I am. We have a lovely village pond, not ten minutes from our home. It is here we shall be embarking…
Create a Preschool Science Area
The idea to create a preschool science area has been whizzing about in my head for weeks. I honestly tried not to go too mad, but inevitably I did just that! Perusing Amazon, I came across this beautiful, colourful science equipment. I, of course, pressed buy before my brain had connected with my fingers... And…
Looking Back: Ancient Greece – Minoans
In this post about the Ancient Greece Minoans, we read some fun books, create our own frescos, do notepages and dress some Minoan paper dolls. I love teaching about the Minoans. They seemed to have been such a colourful people, who were essentially a race of their own. I've since done another lesson on the…
Maths at the Manor
Last week I mentioned our foray into living maths using the Domesday survey as our basis for learning about percentages. We used our handy-dandy papier-mache map (again-this is one of the best investments in time we have made!). Paper Mache Map The children built up our very own Manor, complete with a Keep: Our Manor Statistics…
Year Long Pond Study
The idea of doing a year long pond study had been percolating for a while. Let me explain...I LOVE history. I didn't take it at school, so I come to it with clear, fresh eyes and I think this makes it very, very interesting for me. Science, however, I took at GCSE level (all of them),…
Marco Polo Adventure Box
Yesterday I shared the resources I'm using for the Ancient China part of our adventure box. The resources shown here will make up the Marco Polo Adventure Box. We will be studying these in tandem, so the resources here may not look like much but together with the Ancient China resources, there's loads! Marco Polo…
Ancient China Adventure Box
We start every unit study as homeschoolers with an adventure box. This post uncovers everything in our Ancient China Adventure Box. We will be doing our Ancient China unit in tandem with a Marco Polo unit, and I will be chatting about the Marco Polo adventure box in my next post. Yes, my children are…