Yeeeehaa! My unit study all about South America and the rainforest is done and dusted and is now posted all in one place 🙂 Enjoy! Part 1: South America: Learning through Literature Part 2: Project Based Learning: South American Animals Part 3: South America Adventure box Part 4: Where in the World? Part 5:… Continue reading South America Unit Study
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South America: The Vanishing Rain Forests {deserts}
Welcome to my very last post on our South American Unit Study. I’m so chuffed I managed to finally get it all written down, and I am so ready to move on to our next continent study, which I think will be Asia. This week we learnt all about the importance of plants and trees… Continue reading South America: The Vanishing Rain Forests {deserts}
A Summer Shakespeare Club: Adventure Box
We’ve been making summer adventure boxes for years. They are so useful for building anticipation as the children gleefully watch them fill up with goodies over the preceding weeks. We already had most of the book resources (I often buy resources a year or two in advance) and we always keep a well stocked dressing… Continue reading A Summer Shakespeare Club: Adventure Box
South America Unit Study: Summer Adventure Box
I have already outlined my plans for my youngest two for this summer, and you will know that I am having a lot of help from my mum, Sarah and Lorna (Aren’t I blessed?). This Summer Adventure Box needed to be extra special for just that reason. There will be more people than just me… Continue reading South America Unit Study: Summer Adventure Box
Shakespeare Unit Study
A Summer Shakespeare Club: Introduction Summer Shakespeare Club: Making Club T-Shirts A Summer Shakespeare Club: Adventure Box A Summer Shakespeare Club: Meeting the Members Shakespeare: Midsummer Night’s Dream – Day 1 Shakespeare: Midsummer Night’s Dream – Day 2 Shakespeare: Midsummer Night’s Dream – Day 3 Shakespeare: Midsummer Night’s Dream – Day 4 Shakespeare: Midsummer Night’s Dream – Day 5 Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet –… Continue reading Shakespeare Unit Study
Homeschool Vikings Unit Study
Have you always wanted to teach a homeschool Vikings Unit Study to your children, but don’t know where to start? I’ve got you sorted! I’ve done all the hard work so that you don’t have to. This fun, hands on unit offers a variety of resources from which you can pick and choose. If you’re… Continue reading Homeschool Vikings Unit Study
Project Based Learning: South American Animals
Whilst the older children dig deep into Shakespeare and all he has to offer, the little ones will be focused on South America. It will be a primarily literature based study, with the exception of the project based learning the littles will do. They have attempted to do projects before with my help but they… Continue reading Project Based Learning: South American Animals
Reception Year (age 4-5) 2015-2016
Reading Reception year for B4 will be all about reinforcing her A,B,C’s. By the end of this year I hope B will be reading simple words. I will be doing some more letter learning activities from the free Easy, Peasy, All in One Home school ‘Getting Ready I and II’. This is completely free and… Continue reading Reception Year (age 4-5) 2015-2016
Shakespeare: Midsummer Night’s Dream – Day 3
Midsummer Night’s Dream Day 1 Midsummer Night’s Dream Day 2 Shakespeare Biographical Work (10 mins) Read out-loud Act I, scene 3: John Shakespeare Takes his Son to His First Play from the following Shakespeare book: Midsummer Night’s Dream Act III, Scene I-III (80 mins) Yesterday we had forgone the audio and just watched the video,… Continue reading Shakespeare: Midsummer Night’s Dream – Day 3
South America – Learning through Literature
Whilst the older ones are studying all things Shakespeare, the littles will be focusing their time on South America. The unit study will be two pronged using both literature and project based learning. This post will be about our literature based learning and tomorrow I will post about the projects they will be attempting.… Continue reading South America – Learning through Literature
The Summer Shakespeare Club: PBL Choices
We have just completed our first Shakespeare club week and, whilst it is hard work, everyone is laughing lots and thoroughly enjoying themselves. It has definitely been worth all the hours I’ve put in over the past four weeks. Each afternoon the guys work for a couple of hours on their projects. As you know… Continue reading The Summer Shakespeare Club: PBL Choices
Shakespeare: Midsummer Night’s Dream – Day 4
Midsummer Night’s Dream Day 1 Midsummer Night’s Dream Day 2 Midsummer Night’s Dream Day 3 Shakespeare Biographical Work (10 mins) Read out-loud Act I, scene 4: Shakespeare Attends School from the following Shakespeare book: Midsummer Night’s Dream Act IV, Scene I-II (50 mins) Read and Listen to Act IV (about 25 mins) We listened to the… Continue reading Shakespeare: Midsummer Night’s Dream – Day 4
Around the World with FIAR: Henry the Castaway
Geographical Theme for Term: South America We read through this book again: Henry the Castaway is a story about a boy who imagines going for an adventure on the Orinoco River. This river runs through Venezuela and Colombia: As we had already covered Columbia in a past study, we focused primarily on Venezuela this week.… Continue reading Around the World with FIAR: Henry the Castaway
Dare to Dream: Recognising the Passion Within
In this post, I will share how we have determined what the passions are of each child. With Lillie it was easy. She spent every spare moment creating. She was even happy to do so alone. This was the girl who hated our quiet times each day growing up because she had to be… Continue reading Dare to Dream: Recognising the Passion Within
Magic tree house book: Adventure in the Amazon
This week we have been using one of the Magic Tree House books ‘Adventure in the Amazon‘, to continue with our South America unit study, focusing on the country of Brazil. South America: Goals for this Study Whilst working through the next unit of Rainforest Journey and reading Adventure in the Amazon, we will be focusing… Continue reading Magic tree house book: Adventure in the Amazon
