In a quest to organise my blog a bit better, I am attempting to gather posts with similar themes together in one place. These are all my Before Five in a Row posts. I used Before Five in a Row with my pre-schoolers as their very first ‘structured’ school. It is a literature based program……
Tag: Homeschooling
Precious Moments
This has been a great week of love, laughter and friends and you all know how happy that makes me. Choosing to take it easy during December has been a really great decision and we are reaping the benefits every day. Last Friday evening we began what we hope will be a weekly Keepers of……
Mr Men School: Building Reading Comprehension
Reading comprehension is an important skill to build. As an adult good comprehension skills will mean being able to read a letter and fully understand its contents, or being able to follow instructions such as in a recipe or google maps. These are all excellent reasons to encourage reading comprehension. The best reason of all,……
Mr Men School: Five Modelling Ideas
Our art is always based on process not product. That said, the children enjoy making something that is recognisable to the picture they began with in their heads. Here are a few of our more enjoyable projects trying to replicate some Mr Men and Little Miss characters: 1. Junk Modelling Junk modelling is a cheap,……
Incorporating Unschooling into a Project Based School
So, with the help of the children, I have chosen all our curriculum and am continuing to pursue project based learning whenever I can. Yet everything which pulls me towards unschooling is still pulling, whilst everything in me which rejects unschooling is still rejecting it. What’s a girl to do? A while ago I read……
One Year Pond Study
Inspired by Ticia’s idea to collate all my Native American Posts in one place, I thought I would tidy up my blog a bit and create posts which did the same for other topics. In anticipation of our next nature study which will be a one year study of the nature in our garden, I……
Precious Memories
Over the weekend the girls and Thomas had no less than three birthday celebrations to attend. For one of the parties the girls had to dress up as a favourite character in a film. Putting the dress-up we bought for the medieval festival to good use, C12 dressed up as Hero from Shakespeare’s Much Ado……
The Birth of Jesus as Told by the Angelicscalliwags
Last night we were treated to the delights of the birth of Jesus a la angelicscalliwags. Prepare yourself. It wouldn’t be the most accurate rendition of the Nativity I’ve ever seen! It was at this point I had to put out the food so I missed the shepherds tending their flocks and the three wise……
Mr Men School: Partnered Reading
In my last post I wrote about all we had done to encourage my six-year-old with her reading and I mentioned that partnered reading was one such strategy. I began to partner A6 about five months ago. The Mr Men magazines always have at least one comic like story based on one of the Mr……
Mr Men School: Encouraging a Love of Reading
I am currently teaching a six year old and a three year old to read. You may or may not know that I have a daughter who struggles with her reading. I say this not because I necessarily believe she should be further along or a better reader than she is, but because she is……
Precious Memories
This week has been a funny old week with me recovering (really well) from the surgery but sleeping waaaay more hours than I think I have ever slept in my life! I had decided on a couple of weeks of light school which worked for all of about 5 minutes and then we had attitudes……
Reflecting on our Term
My first thought on this term is that is wasn’t everything it could have been. I had big plans and a stack of resources but with a two-week holiday to Ireland bang in the middle of the ten weeks as well as my operation, it feels like it never really got off the ground. We……
Native American Unit Study: Ojibwe Nation
Ticia asked for me to do a post collecting all my Ojibwe posts into one place. So here it is: Native American Unit Study The First Native American People: Mapping the Area The First Native American People: Appreciating the Tribal Differences The First Native Americans: Presenting the Information Native American Unit Week 1- The Birchbark House: Neebin (Summer) Native American……
Angelicscalliwags Christmas Traditions: Christmas Eve
I do realise I’m posting this after Christmas, but I wanted to include it in my tradition series, without having to wait a whole year to do so. This is a tradition we have had since Gary and I shared our first Christmas together in our very own flat. It has changed a little, accommodating……
Angelicscalliwags Christmas Traditions # 6: Apple Sauce and Cinnamon Decorations
Donna asked if I would post the recipe for these, so here it, especially for you, Donna! It is a recipe from the book ‘The Adventure of Christmas’. We make these each year. No-Bake Spiced Dough Ornaments 1 cup ground cinnamon 1 tablespoon ground cloves 1 tablespoon ground ginger 1 tablespoon ground nutmeg 1 cup apple……