The idea to create a preschool science area has been whizzing about in my head for weeks. I honestly tried not to go too mad, but inevitably I did just that! Perusing Amazon, I came across this beautiful, colourful science equipment. I, of course, pressed buy before my brain had connected with my fingers… And……
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Looking Back: Ancient Greece – Minoans
In this post about the Ancient Greece Minoans, we read some fun books, create our own frescos, do notepages and dress some Minoan paper dolls. I love teaching about the Minoans. They seemed to have been such a colourful people, who were essentially a race of their own. I’ve since done another lesson on the……
Maths at the Manor
Last week I mentioned our foray into living maths using the Domesday survey as our basis for learning about percentages. We used our handy-dandy papier-mache map (again-this is one of the best investments in time we have made!). Paper Mache Map The children built up our very own Manor, complete with a Keep: Our Manor Statistics……
Year Long Pond Study
The idea of doing a year long pond study had been percolating for a while. Let me explain…I LOVE history. I didn’t take it at school, so I come to it with clear, fresh eyes and I think this makes it very, very interesting for me. Science, however, I took at GCSE level (all of them),……
Marco Polo Adventure Box
Yesterday I shared the resources I’m using for the Ancient China part of our adventure box. The resources shown here will make up the Marco Polo Adventure Box. We will be studying these in tandem, so the resources here may not look like much but together with the Ancient China resources, there’s loads! Marco Polo……
Ancient China Adventure Box
We start every unit study as homeschoolers with an adventure box. This post uncovers everything in our Ancient China Adventure Box. We will be doing our Ancient China unit in tandem with a Marco Polo unit, and I will be chatting about the Marco Polo adventure box in my next post. Yes, my children are……
Ancient Israel Unit Study
The main focus for our Ancient Israel Unit Study was the Old Testament. This was the ideal opportunity to learn more about the Jews and their covenant with God. Israel followed very naturally from our ancient Egypt unit study, given it was Moses who led the Israelites out of Egypt to the promised land of Israel. Ancient……
Homemade Handicrafts
Make time for some homemade handicrafts in your homeschool! It doesn’t need to be complicated or technically difficult. Opt for something simple, like these two Mr Men dolls. You don’t even really need to be that gifted in arts and crafts. It is the spending time together, whilst keeping hands busy. This encourages great conversations……
Valentine Restaurant: A Love Shown
I had another post planned for today, but I was so overwhelmed by my children last night that I wanted to share RIGHT AWAY!! Yesterday morning we were informed that we were required to dress up for a valentine dinner at Valentine Restaurant, which the children were opening just for us that night. We grinned……
Importance of Picture Books for Learning Great Literature
Studying great literature has to be one of my most favourite times in home school. I think because I design our own studies, it gives us lots of freedoms that following a curriculum of any type would remove. I am able to keep it simple, complex or anywhere in between. We don’t have to ascribe……
Giotto Artist Study for Homeschoolers
Continuing with our Medieval Unit Study, today I am going to share our Giotto homeschool artist study. Giotto was apprenticed to Cimabue, yet he overtook his master in many ways, excelling in portraying a more natural and normal human form. He was a fore-runner, if you like, away from the Byzantine art which influenced Cimabue. ……
Angus Lost Book Unit
This wonderful book unit contains lots and lots of hands on activities linked to the book Angus Lost. A lovely dog-themed book unit! Becca had her last two teeth coming through, and spent most of the week crying day and night. These last two were taking their time and teething was always a HUGE issue……
Homeschool Blahs
It’s that time of year again. February. I know it’s coming. The fact that February is a month of the year that always comes after January, and is never skipped in favour of March has not escaped my notice. Since homeschooling, February is my very least favourite time of the year. I couldn’t tell you……
If Jesus Came to my House {B4FIAR}
In this latest book unit, we focused our attentions on Before Five in a Row book If Jesus Came to my House by Joan G Thomas. I chose the topic of hospitality for this weeks theme because this book lends itself well to this. This year I want to be a little less haphazard about……
Thomas’ battle and victory over writing
This week I was so proud of T11 that I almost cried. He wrote his first completely independent 5 paragraph essay using this tool . I asked T11 if he would mind me relating some of his story with regards to his difficulty with writing. Oh, and I asked if I could share his essay. T11 would……