Tag: unit study
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Continent Studies: Antarctica – Where in the World?
Main Learning Goals To be able to point out north and south on a globe To point to all continents and the Arctic circle To understand why the Arctic is not a continent whilst the Antarctica is To understand why it is cold at the top and bottom of the globe To realise Antarctica is […]
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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 […]
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Anglo Saxon Literature Study: Beowulf Part Two
For part one see here As part of our Anglo Saxon unit study, we have been carrying out a literature study on Beowulf using these books: In my last post I talked about the history of Beowulf; alliteration; kenning; some fiction writing pertaining to Beowulf; the formal Saxon boast and Beowulf as a form of primary evidence. This post […]
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How to Make an Ancient Greece Game Board to Reinforce Learning
I gave you a peek of our board game made during our fun week and thought I’d do a post on how I made it. The children and I had discussed our ideas and all knew vaguely what it was we were aiming for. The first thing I did, at the beginning of the week, was […]
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Anglo Saxon Literature Study: Beowulf Part 1
We are reading Beowulf as part of our literature study whilst looking at the Anglo Saxons. I have lots of activities planned. We do not do separate writing, spelling, grammar or English in our home school. I simply plan all those subjects through the study of great classics. The two books we are using for this are […]
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How to Make a Paper Mache Map
Being a little artsy myself, it is always a pleasure to incorporate anything crafty in our home school. I try to provide auditory, visual and tactile learning experiences and large projects like this are perfect. My goal here was to create a huge paper mache map of Great Britain. As it was to be specifically used […]
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Anglo Saxon Presentation
About twice a year our older children put on a presentation about the period they are studying. So far we have done astronomy, Ancient Mesopotamia, Ancient Egypt and Ancient Greece. We are very fortunate to live in a village where we are well supported in our homeschooling endeavours. We shop locally and so know many of […]
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First Day Back To school
Our first day back at school consists of cinnamon rolls (new recipe – Yum!), back to school goodies and photos. The recipe for the cinnamon rolls was gorgeous. They turned out much sweeter, with a cinnamon toffee sauce running through them and a cream cheese frosting. Really yummy! For their back to school goodies they were given […]