We are all making headway choosing curriculum for this academic year. However, I am struggling to find something I can use as a first aid curriculum/guidance. One of L’s electives is first aid but I’m coming up empty. Would anyone have any ideas? Also C wants to do a second creative writing course as one of……
Tag: Homeschooling
Artist Study: Da Vinci and his Horses
Over the past few days school has been replaced by horses. We have been studying, taking photos of, drawing and studying drawings of horses. We have tried (unsuccessfully) to become as obsessed with horses as Leonardo Da Vinci was. Horses just don’t float our boats with quite the same vigour that they obviously did for……
Wibbly Wobbly Weightloss: week 7
source This has been a really positive week for me. Things are gradually changing and I really think they are changing for good this time. Each change I make I try to listen to what my body is telling me and go with that. Just recently, as you know, I’ve been trying to eat more during……
Response to ‘A Few Thoughts…’
I was slightly overwhelmed by the care and support given in response to my post about us moving to a bought curriculum. You have all given me so much food for thought and I appreciate it more than you can know that you all went to such trouble to share your own choices. This past……
A few thoughts….
Apologies, this is probably one of those posts which is of interest to nobody but me. I have come to the conclusion that home schooling is God’s way of ensuring the grass does not grow under my feet. His way of making sure I do not become too complacent. Maybe even His way of preventing……
Microbes: Fungus and Bacteria – Intrinsically Linked
I probably don’t need to say this, but did you know that fungi can kill bacteria? Most antibiotics used today were found originally in fungi, although many of these chemicals are now synthesized in factories. Strictly speaking, antibiotics are substances made by microorganisms that stop growth of other microbes or kill them outright. The first ever antibiotic……
Wibbly Wobbly Weightloss: Week 6
Source This week has been a funny old week which began with Gary being at home for the first three days and ended with me in hospital on Friday for an investigative procedure. We had decided that the three days with Gary would be our staycation, as we were not going on holiday until later on in……
Incr-Edible Science: Bacteria and Yogurt Making
So far we have looked at the different types of bacteria, building our own model: We’ve experimented with growing bacteria cultures on agar in petri dishes testing which area of the kitchen was the dirtiest: And finding out which was dirtiest the loo or the sink? We are currently testing the efficacy of various cleaners……
Wibbly Wobbly Weightloss:losing weight the wibbly wobbly way – week 5
Another week, another weigh in! The competition is hotting up between Gary and I, with Gary exercising like mad with our son, and me using the very helpful tip he gave me last week – feeding him larger portions! Didn’t work though, with him winning this week with a two pounds weight-loss compared with my one pound. ……
Literature Studies: Chaucer – A Play of the Nun’s Priest’s Tale
We only do Chaucer studies once a week on a Tuesday, or at least that is the plan. I have, as always, over estimated what we can fit in, so the children aren’t getting much time to do each activity. Sometimes that is good. The last activity felt pressurised and therefore less enjoyable. This activity……
Polymer Play: Making Plastic
I got the idea of making plastic from one of the Leonardo Da Vinci books. He was said to have been the inventor of plastic and whilst this is obviously not like the plastic we know and love now, I thought it would be a fun activity for my littles to do. I am grateful that……
Da Vinci and his Printing Press
We have been studying Gutenberg’s printing press recently, first by familiarising ourselves with his printing press and then attempting to make our own. Whilst Leonardo wasn’t the first to invent the printing press he did attempt to improve upon Gutenberg’s own design. I had bought a Make-Your-Own kit for the Da Vinci press. I hadn’t……
Precious Memories
Life is returning to some sort of normality after an incredibly busy couple of weeks. The busyness culminated in the children’s cabaret night, in which Gary was drumming and my four older children were singing. It was wonderful to see them all, but B3 had simply had enough of the busy days and late nights and was……
Inventor Study: Gutenberg and his Printing Press
First things first, we watched one of the brilliant videos found on YouTube about Gutenberg:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7e2bA3tTYowHa! I just love these videos! Next we read these books all about Gutenberg and his printing press:The picture book was particularly good because it covers the history of printing. I was gratified to see we had covered the majority of……
Project Based Learning: Leonardo Da Vinci and His Ornithopter
Although the area of flight was a topic T12 would be covering extensively, I thought we’d do a very quick group activity, exploring Leonardo’s fixation with flight and the resulting idea of an ornithopter. Da Vinci always claimed his earliest memory was of a Kite bird swooping down whilst he was in his cradle. It……