In this very long post, you get to experience our day around London in 8 destinations as part of our Victorian Unit Study! Warning!! Ultra, ultra looooong post coming up with over 60 photos. Apologies (but it was such a good day, I couldn’t resist 🙂 ) The Morning of ‘Around London in 8 Destinations’……
Tag: Jules Verne
Around the World in 80 Days: Week Four
This week we finished up Jules Verne’s Around the World in 80 Days. I’d like to say we finished strong, but to be honest we were rather distracted by the up and coming trip to London. That said, I wanted to get this post up so I could at least say we had finished. Not……
Victorian Steam Punk: Week Three
– I finally finished all the sewing of the costumes, so the photos you see here are their final ones. Not a pin in sight! We also added a few accessories, although that will be our main focus next week. Steam Punk Hat Bearing in mind we are trying to do this whole thing spending……
Victorian Steam Punk: Week Two
This week we got out all the clothes and started playing about with them, trying different combinations on until we had a vague idea of what we wanted: Steam Punk Sketches I sketched some outfits (which I have to admit, don’t look in the slightest bit steam punkish on paper) B5’s Steam Punk Costume: B5……
Around the World in 80 Days: Week 2 – India Part Two
Fogg and Passepartout’s Journey Across India The book took us on a very detailed journey through the varying landscapes of India, and I thought it might be quite nice to show visually what Verne was describing in his book, as Fogg and Passepartout made their way across India. This took a long time and required……
Around the World in 80 Days: Week 2 – India Part One
I haven’t so much to write this week because all our time was spent learning about India. Phileas Fogg traveled from Bombay to Calcutta, first by steam train, then by elephant. This week we only read the chapters pertaining to India. We have covered India before in our home school and I fortunately had posted……
Around the World in 80 Days: Day Four
Today we read the next four chapters so that we could free up some time to look at Steam Punk on day 5. Chapter 7: Which Once More Demonstrates the Uselessness of Passports as Aids to Detectives Phileas Fogg gets his passport Visaed in Suez and manages to avoid getting arrested by Fix, who doesn’t……
Around the World in 80 Days: Day Three
I was really looking forward to today as I had read ahead and seen that Fogg and Passepartout covered a lot of ground geographically speaking, which meant lots of opportunities to learn. We were also introduced to the protagonist, Fix, an inspector who has got it into his head that Fogg is the bank robber.……
Around the World in 80 Days: Day Two
On the second day of our summer adventure, we read two more chapters, continued learning lots and ended the day with a Byron poetry reading tea party. Chapter 3: Phileas Fog makes a wager that is likely to cost him dear Phileas Fogg believes he can circumnavigate his way around the world, and is willing……
Around the World in 80 Days: Day One
Okay, so I was going to write one post summing up the week, but I knew when it had reached 4000 words it would be too much. But I did want to record all we had done, for the children and I guess if some one wanted to do something similar, all the ideas would……
Around the World in 80 Days Summer Adventure
I was planning on taking full advantage of the fact that Thomas wouldn’t be around for much of the summer and actually take a break. We had already completed five weeks of summer writing (something I really want to work on over the next year), and I had let the children know nothing more……