Another Celebrated Dancing Bear is one of the fabulous collection of books from the Five in a Row curriculum. It is set in Russia. We used it along with the FIAR text books and lots of other books and activities. Unhappy with his lot in life working at the local hospital, Boris struggles to congratulate…
Month: July 2017
Charcoal Self Portrait {Learning the Art Basics}
This lesson Lillie had to draw a charcoal self portrait. Charcoal is a tricky medium to use because detail is fairly hard to achieve. Lil did lots of preparatory work and created a lovely self portrait. She received 95% for the lesson, along with lots of ideas for her to try out. The self portrait…
The Crafty Classroom {Review}
Over the past few weeks my younger girls have been using How to Write a Paragraph from The Crafty Classroom: What is 'How to Write a Paragraph'? 'How to Write a Paragraph' is exactly what you would expect. It is a simple downloadable pack which takes a child through all the steps of writing a…
Angelicscalliwags Catch Up and Plans for Next Year: Lillie
I am so excited about Lillie's school work this year! I think she is going to have an absolute ball, and I am completely jealous that I didn't have the same opportunity when I was her age 🙂 With Lillie we are keeping it very vocational. For years now she has wanted to start up…
Fathers and Daughters
My daughter is trying to blog daily. She gets up at 630 each morning to have time to do it. I love reading what she writes. She is growing into an incredible young lady. This is her latest post about her Daddy....
Doctor Aviation {Review}
A month or so ago the review crew were given the opportunity to be on a rather unusual review - a video course all about Aviation from Doctor Aviation. Aviation...how cool is that? Of course with a fifteen year old male in the house, we jumped at the chance and we are so pleased we…
“Trust Fund” from Mapelle Films {Review}
Every Sunday we put aside the time between church services for some good ol' family time. We always have slow cooker gammon ham, chips and vegetables, which requires very little work from me, and we always watch a film. We have collected quite a collection of Christian and family friendly dvds, and are always on the look…
Angelicscalliwags Catch Up and Plans for Next Year: Thomas
Thomas has an incredibly busy summer ahead of him as he prepares for his final year in our little home school. He will be working on the tech team for this year's church holiday week at the end of July. The beginning of August he is working as a trainee teacher in Manna summer school…
Fascinating Education {Review}
Charlotte has been independently completing Fascinating Biology from Fascinating Education, which we thought might be a good go-along to the IGCSE Biology she will be starting next year. What is Fascinating Biology? Fascinating Biology is an audio-visual course which fulfils all the high school requirements for Biological Science. Using powerful images to illustrate sometimes hard to understand…
Hands on History with Home School in the Woods {Review}
I am fast becoming Home School in the Woods biggest fan! I was blessed once more when I was chosen as one of the reviewers of their Time Traveler American series. I had a choice of New World Explorers, Colonial Life, The American Revolution, The Early 19th Century, The Civil War, Industrial Revolution through Great Depression and World War II. As we were…
Portraiture {Learning the Art Basics}
This post will describe all of Lillie’s portraiture work. Lillie is doing so incredibly well with her art. We requested a change of tutor, not because there was anything wrong with the one we had, but because we wanted more input into what Lil was doing well and what she needed to improve upon. We…