For her project last term Lillie learnt all about the Impressionist painters. She studied one artist for two weeks. The latest has been Edgar Degas, which was very nearly a disaster! But Lillie came up trumps and I think we both agreed that this was one of her best studies 🙂 Edgar Degas: General Resources…
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Charles Dickens {Victorian Unit}
This week our focus was on Charles Dickens and the Victorian poor. Oh my, I had fun this week! The children not so much, but I took huge delight in threatening to starve my children with a Poor Law diet....in fact, I 'made' them be poor Victorians for a day. Yes, a day. The fuss…
Victorian Working Class
I wanted the girls to experience the life of a Victorian Working Class. This was a small social experiment the children and I carried out over one school day. We will be doing something similar when we come to world wars and I thought it might be fun to have experienced the Poor Law Food…
Laundry the Victorian Way
The girls tried their hand doing laundry the Victorian way. Laundry was a hard, hard job which Victorian women did entirely by hand. They did not have the luxury of a washing machine. Nor did they have enzymatic laundry tablets. Instead, they had a boil, soap or washing soda and fire. Laundry the Victorian way…
Queen Victoria and Prince Albert {1830-1840}
This post is a hodge podge of all things Victorian Related that we have studied over the past three months which don't fit in well with any of my other 19th century posts. I have focussed much of our work on Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. Queen Victoria and Prince Albert: Resources Books The…
Jane Austin {1810-1820}
The 1810s were a busy time with George III officially being recognised as insane; the United States Congress declaring war on Britain; the Great (financial) Panic of 1819; Queen Victoria's birth and the Napoleonic wars coming to an end. As you can see, a whole heap of important events occurred during the early 19th century,…
Dare to Dream: Having the Courage to Let Your Homeschooler Dream Big
Each year we toddle off to Northern Ireland for our annual holiday. Gary and I use this time to think, pray and discuss changes we might like to see in our family and home school. More often than not I go away with questions, worries and issues that I have determined to pray about, with…
Artist Study: Tony Cragg {Sculptor}
Lillie has been learning about artist and sculptor Tony Cragg in her Saturday art lesson. I thought as she had struggled a bit with the concept of abstract art we would do a bit of extra work using Cragg as our inspiration. During her lesson at the university, she had helped to make a Cragg…
Victorian Steam Punk: Week Two
This week we got out all the clothes and started playing about with them, trying different combinations on until we had a vague idea of what we wanted: Steam Punk Sketches I sketched some outfits (which I have to admit, don't look in the slightest bit steam punkish on paper) B5's Steam Punk Costume: B5…
Around the World in 80 Days: Week 2 – India Part Two
Fogg and Passepartout's Journey Across India The book took us on a very detailed journey through the varying landscapes of India, and I thought it might be quite nice to show visually what Verne was describing in his book, as Fogg and Passepartout made their way across India. This took a long time and required…
Around the World in 80 Days: Week 2 – India Part One
I haven't so much to write this week because all our time was spent learning about India. Phileas Fogg traveled from Bombay to Calcutta, first by steam train, then by elephant. This week we only read the chapters pertaining to India. We have covered India before in our home school and I fortunately had posted…
Be-you-tiful Science: How to Make Your Own Lip Balm
A couple of weekends ago, my four girls and I cooked up a beauty storm in the kitchen! Oh. my. goodness. What a mess! I had kind of decided that we had most of the ingredients for a rather nice lip balm. I'm guessing my beauty range is as ad hoc as my cooking. It…
Around the World in 80 Days: Day Two
On the second day of our summer adventure, we read two more chapters, continued learning lots and ended the day with a Byron poetry reading tea party. Chapter 3: Phileas Fog makes a wager that is likely to cost him dear Phileas Fogg believes he can circumnavigate his way around the world, and is willing…
Around the World in 80 Days: Day One
Okay, so I was going to write one post summing up the week, but I knew when it had reached 4000 words it would be too much. But I did want to record all we had done, for the children and I guess if some one wanted to do something similar, all the ideas would…
Anglo-Saxon Unit Study: Resources
We used so many great resources for our Anglo-Saxon unit study, I thought I would share them 🙂 Although we did this study a few years ago, we will be repeating it with my younger two so this post will be helpful to me as well. Non-Fiction Books Anglo Saxons and Vikings from Usbourne is…