I had another post planned for today, but I was so overwhelmed by my children last night that I wanted to share RIGHT AWAY!! Yesterday morning we were informed that we were required to dress up for a valentine dinner at Valentine Restaurant, which the children were opening just for us that night. We grinned…
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Katy No-Pocket Book Unit {BFIAR}
This wonderful book unit contains lots and lots of hands on activities linked to the book Katy No-Pocket. A lovely kangaroo themed book unit! Read More: All of my book units collected into one place – I will be adding to them so please do check back! Pin this post to bookmark it for later! Katy…
Giotto Artist Study for Homeschoolers
Continuing with our Medieval Unit Study, today I am going to share our Giotto homeschool artist study. Giotto was apprenticed to Cimabue, yet he overtook his master in many ways, excelling in portraying a more natural and normal human form. He was a fore-runner, if you like, away from the Byzantine art which influenced Cimabue. …
Angus Lost Book Unit
This wonderful book unit contains lots and lots of hands on activities linked to the book Angus Lost. A lovely dog-themed book unit! Becca had her last two teeth coming through, and spent most of the week crying day and night. These last two were taking their time and teething was always a HUGE issue…
If Jesus Came to my House {B4FIAR}
In this latest book unit, we focused our attentions on Before Five in a Row book If Jesus Came to my House by Joan G Thomas. I chose the topic of hospitality for this weeks theme because this book lends itself well to this. This year I want to be a little less haphazard about…
The Snowy Day Book Unit
The Snowy Day book unit is perfect for snowy days, with lots of snowflake related hands on activities which are sure to excite your children! Read on for some great inspiration! The Snowy Day Book Unit Snowy Day Themed Playdough Every morning, for The Snowy Day book unit, I set up a play dough table…
Precious Moments # 1.5
Here is the magic that happens outside of lessons: Our beautiful C10 This has been a wondrously busy week, filled with trips, family and a little one year old who matured in front of our very eyes. We are all tired, but very content and looking forward to the new term. B1, who is now talking Last…
Plans for This Year
I can't tell you how excited I am about the next few terms. We're moving into the Middle Ages, good and proper! We will be studying from 1066 to 1465 and concentrating on British history, with a bit of European history thrown in for good measure. As we learn everything bar maths and science from our…
Homeschool Living Maths: Probability
On our family holiday this year, the children came face to face with amusement arcades. Never having seen anything like it before, they were enamoured and very enthusiastic to spend our money in order to win more back. Needless to say we did not allow them. Until, that is, the last day. It was pouring with…
Exploring Angles and Triangles {Living Maths}
Last week we learnt about Viking runes. We made a stave and found that every letter of the viking alphabet could be made using one of these as a guide. The straight lines, angles and triangles made me think that there could be a maths lesson in there somewhere. So, we spent the week exploring…
Homeschool Maths: Co-ordinate Graphs
This post will contain all the activities we did in our homeschool maths about Co-ordinate Graphs. First, I will introduce you to an excellent book about x,y co-ordinates. Next, I will show you how we used our aged map to answer some Viking themed co-ordinate graph questions. And lastly, I will describe how we used…
Caps for Sale Book Unit
The week we did a fun Caps for Sale Book Unit. I was astounded by how many monkey activities we found around the house to do! I hope you find inspirations for your own Caps for Sale Book Unit. Caps for Sale, written in 1940, is a retelling of an old folk tale. Is perfect…
Homeschool Biology: Cells
Welcome to our homeschool biology lesson about cells! Being a nurse by profession, I have been eagerly awaiting our study of biology. This Apologia Anatomy and Physiology book is one that we will languish in, take our time over and, I'm sure, thoroughly enjoy! (I mean, who doesn't like learning about themselves?). We treated ourselves this…