This week we have taken an unplanned detour. We neglected to cover the Mongolians during our ancient history studies and I wondered where it might naturally fit in. Marco Polo and the Mongolians is the answer! As we are reading Polo’s memoirs the ‘Tartars’ are the one people we have no knowledge of. They played such……
Tag: Homeschooling
Mr Men Adventure Box
On a Friday we have a time when all five children are doing school together. I use the term school loosely due to the age differences, however the older one’s are still learning. They learn their needs come secondary to their little sisters and learn to put aside their wishes for a couple of hours……
Soda Bread Science {Incr-Edible Science}
In this continuation of our Incr-Edible Science Curriculum, we shall be applying the knowledge we learnt from our last lesson on acids and bases in the kitchen. This week we will be focusing on soda bread science. Check out our earlier posts: The Science of Lemonade and Perfecting Lemonade We left our last lesson making hypotheses concerning substitutes……
Preschool Messy Art
A few weeks ago I created a preschool science nook. We used this for one hour on a Monday encouraging my two younger daughters to play at being scientists. Well, during these one hour slots, my two-year old was utterly absorbed. Prior to this, I’m not sure she had done anything, apart from cry, for……
Pond Study: Helping an Injured Duck {Week 5}
Our goal this week was to concentrate on pond ecosystems. At least that is what I had planned. All the great plans of mice and men…. What we actually ending up doing was helping an injured duck get some help from the RSPCA. It was dark, cold and windy this week at our pond. But……
Who is Marco Polo? {Medieval Explorer}
It seems Marco Polo will be taking us longer than first thought (ahem, how very unusual for us!). His travels are a much larger, not to mention interesting, subject than I first thought. Fortunately, the freedom of home-school allows us to chop and change as often as we like, so I’m just going with it!……
Acid and Base Kitchen Science {Incr-Edible Science}
The whole point of this home-made Incr-Edible science curriculum is that Lillie learns the why of cooking, as opposed to the simple how. I want her to be able to take knowledge about one set of ingredients and apply the same principles to another set. I want her to understand substitutions and suggest some of……
Simple Mr Men Puppets {Mr Men Unit Study}
In this post I shall be showing you how to make some simple Mr Men puppets from foam sheets and lolly sticks. Here is our tin box filled to the brim with our hand-made puppets: I wanted to start making some play things to put in the littles Mr Men and Little Misses adventure box……
More Lemonade Science {Incr-Edible Science}
In our Incr-Edible Science last week, we made some rather revolting lemonade. If I’m honest, calling it lemonade is a stretch. It was fizzy and it has lemon in it. ‘Nuff said! This week, our goal was to explore some more lemonade science to see if we could create a more palatable lemonade. Read More!……
Pond Study: Spring Fauna at the Pond {Week 4}
This post journals the fourth week of our one year pond study in which we focus on counting the spring fauna at the pond. Here is our gorgeous pond this week: Today was freezing. So cold. Too cold for being outside too much! Catch Up! If you’ve missed any of my pond posts, you can……
Pond Study: Ash Tree Study {Week 3}
This post journals the third week of our one year pond study in which we begin our study on the Ash tree. We will be keeping an eye on this tree for the whole 12 months, so do check back. It was wet and overcast this week at the pond Catch Up! If you’ve missed……
Pond Study: Pond Pollution {Week 2}
This post journals the second week of our one year pond study in which we focus on learning about pond pollution. For week 1 see here. We decided to concentrate on pond pollution with a goal to see if it changes over the year. This Week’s Pond Here was the pond that greeted us last……
The Science of Lemonade {Incr-Edible Science}
Last week, during our Incr-Edible Science, the children and I discovered the joys of making atoms, molecules and compounds out of sweeties! Better than that we all actually understood the concepts. Although I took chemistry at advanced level, I always found it hard to understand. I think I only passed by working incredibly hard learning everything……
Castles Homeschool Lesson
We are in the middle of a Medieval Unit Study right now. This post will be going hand in hand with my knights’ post of last week. When I was planning our castles homeschool lesson, I knew this was an opportunity to a practical, more field trip based learning. So I asked Gary if he……
Goodnight Moon Book Unit {BFIAR}
Goodnight Moon Book Unit