So, last Saturday we went aboard the ferry home, crossing from Belfast to Liverpool overnight. Gary slept with the older ones in a cabin, I slept with the littles in another cabin. It was a stormy night, which the little ones slept dead to the world the whole way through. Unlike their mother and……
Tag: Homeschooling
The Angelicscalliwags Homeschool: Quiet Time
I mentioned in a few of my posts about our children taking a period of quiet time every day, after which I received an email asking me about the mechanics of this time. This post is in reply to the email. Why do we, almost without fail, do quiet time each day? When the older……
The Time of Our Lives…
We’ve just spent a magical couple of weeks back home in Northern Ireland. This photo was taken the day before we left, and we all found it hard to leave such a beautiful country and the equally beautiful people who live there. Thank you all so much for all the lovely comments you have left……
T12’s Electives For the 2014-15 school Year
T12 is by far my most studious child. Whilst he hates writing with a passion he truly loves to learn, and because of this is highly self motivated. He would love to unschool and I suspect would thrive quite well learning independently anything that caught his interest. However, he is certain he wants to go……
L11’s Electives for the 2014-2015 School Year
L11 is my calmer twin, who essentially takes after my mum. She likes things to be just so and adores being in a strict routine. She does not enjoy having her routine changed. That said she is much better than she used to be and, with A6, is probably my most easy-going child. L11 likes……
C11’s Electives For the 2014-2015 School Year
C11 is my vivacious, very quirky twin. She is a lovely mixture of both Gary and myself. She has her head permanently in the clouds (me), enjoys anything which includes yarn and material (me), is very musical with a really beautiful voice (Gary) and is really wonderful with young children, especially her little siblings who……
Our 2015 One Year Nature Study Plans
During 2013 and the beginning of 2014 we spent a whole 12 months carrying out a pond study. It was a huge success and we found it so useful to be able to compare our pond from month to month; we also got to know the bird life so well they became like friends: We……
2014-2015 School Year: 11-13 year olds – The Three R’s
Before Christmas: End of 2014 This side of Christmas we will be finishing off our study of the Ojibwe Nation. So far we are enjoying the very comfortable route of typical Angelicscalliwags Homeschool. We all really love how we naturally school: The main problem is that I don’t have the same amount of time to school……
2014-2015 School Year – Dr Seuss School
Using a Different Theme Each Year Although I tend to keep the younger girls basic schooling (reading, writing and maths) as simple as possible, requiring little more from me than opening a book at the correct page, the rest of their day I try to make themed. For example, the first year I started teaching……
2014-2015 School Year: 5/6 Year Old Schedule
Right now we are all working together for our Native American unit study but after Christmas things will be changing a bit as I move into using more curriculum than I ever have before. The schedule described below is the schedule I will be using from January onwards, although some of it is in place……
2014-2015 School Year: 3/4 yr old Schedule
Right now we are all working together for our Native American unit study but after Christmas things will be changing a bit as I move into using more curriculum than I ever have before. The schedule described below is the schedule I will be using from January onwards, although some of it is in place……
Native American Unit Week 2- The Birchbark House: Dagwaging (Fall)
The Birchbark House is book one of a four series set of books about a young, Ojibwe girl called Omakayas: This first book is separated into four sections – the four seasons of the year. Each chapter we read we find much to talk about and learn about. In addition there are many parts of the……
Introducing the Ojibwe People
We have spent a little over a week familiarising ourselves with the Ojibwe people. As well as access to their computers, the children had a couple of Ojibwe factual books: In addition I spent an hour or so each day reading from these two books: The Birchbark house is a fiction book written by Loiuse Erdrich. Erdrich……
How to Make Native American Ojibwe Dolls Clothes
The premise of this study is to create a Ojibwe family, a birch bark house for them to live in and all the Ojibwe bits and bobs to go with a lifestyle congruent with the Ojibwe tribe. The first thing we did was attempt to make a wigwam from twigs and fake Birchbark. I’ll reveal……
Ojibwe Oral Tradition
The oral tradition of passing down stories to the next generation is incredibly important to the Native Americans. In the past it was the main way they kept their traditions alive. Treuer, author of Living our Language states, ‘A language carries a people’s memories, whether they are recounted as individual reminiscences, as communal history, or……