I have such a lot of posts from last year to get up on my blog! Taking six months off suddenly doesn't seem like such a hot idea. Anyhoo, here is our lesson on seeds, using the Apologia text book. Checking Out Different Seeds I read the chapter to the girls, who then got to…
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Botany Unit Study: Introduction
Welcome to our new Botany Unit Study: Unit 1 - Introduction. Over the next twelve weeks, the girls and I will be learning all we can about the world of plants. We will be growing, investigating and eating plants, and we are very excited! We will be using the very excellent Apologia Exploring Creation with…
Astronomy Unit Study: Unit 13 – Stars and the Kuiper Belt
The last post for our astronomy unit! This week we learnt all about the Stars and the Kuiper Belt. Stars and the Kuiper Belt: Reading and Note Taking I had the girls partnership read their way through the penultimate chapter: They wrote notes, trying to include all they remembered: Stars and the Kuiper Belt: Twinkling…
Interviewing the Sassy Sol!
Each Thursday the older girls get out of maths to spend some time doing a bit of school work with the little ones. They are (un)surprisingly enthusiastic about this. I mean no maths....what more needs to be said? This morning they were putting on a reader's theatre type play as Charlotte became an interviewer and…