Tag: home education
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Picasso Artist Study
Pablo Picasso is an interesting artist study to do because he is so unusual. Add that to the fact that he was alive within the last half century and you have a perfect recipe for success. At least, that is what I thought when we began this artist study. It took us a year and […]
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Apologia Zoology I
Last year we finished off Apologia Zoology I curriculum. I’m just including a bunch of ideas we did alongside each chapter, rather than doing a post for each chapter. Books for Apologia Zoology I These were the books we used: These are the actual text book and note book. They are very comprehensive and the […]
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Embroidery for Kids
Last year Becca began a level 1 qualification in Textiles. Her first unit was on embroidery for kids. It has been wonderful watching her enthusiasm for embroidery take off. This first unit required Becca to create a sampler of a variety of stitches. We used the following book: Making a Simple Stitch Sampler At first […]
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September Precious Moments
Lots of lovely learning going on in our house right now. Lillie and Ads have started university. Lil has thoroughly enjoyed every fresher event she could, and has had a ball! Ads has been out with the Conservative Club at uni for a pub crawl! He still managed to catch the right train home and […]
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IGCSE Environmental Management
This is just a quick post to share the first term’s plans for Abigail as she embarks on her first IGCSE in Environmental Management: Our plan is to cover the IGCSE in Environmental Management syllabus in three years, revise and take the exam in the forth year. This allows Abs to work through the course […]
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Gallipoli Campaign and the ANZACs
The Gallipoli Campaign took place between April 1915 and January 1916, on the Gallipoli peninsula. It was an attack by the allied forces (the British Empire, including the ANZACs, and the French) against the Ottoman Empire and the Germans. The purpose of the attack was to break the stale mate on the western front and […]
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Precious Moments
The weather this week has been sunshiny and very warm. Our school week has been slow and leisurely. We’ve done it each day, but it has been at a much slower pace as the garden was calling us to spend as much time as possible outside. The girls are enjoying the British curriculum we’re using […]
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Precious Moments
I am having lots of fun at the moment, going through the entirety of my blog and filling up the header categories with any relevant posts. I have completed 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018 and 2017. It has been so interesting, not to mention joyful, to look back on these years. What has struck me the […]
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Battle of Marne {World War I}
The first battle of Marne took place between the 5th and 12th of September 1914. It was between the Allied powers (the French army and the British Expeditionary Force) and the Central powers (the Germans). The Precursors to the Battle of Marne The Germans were executing the 1905 Schlieffen Plan to surprise the French and […]
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Life in the Trenches {World War I}
Life in the trenches was like nothing the soldiers had ever experienced before. ‘Digging in’ as it was called was a fairly new phenomenon. But living in the mud and squalor surrounded by giant cat-sized mice become wearisome very quickly. The young men had signed up to fight for their country and believed that excitement […]