Do you remember when the teens did their Around London in 8 Destinations? One of their destinations was the Sherlock Holmes Museum. I promised I would post the photos and up until now had completely forgotten! As we are currently looking into the late 19th century, when these books were being created, I thought it…
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Charles Dickens {Victorian Unit}
This week our focus was on Charles Dickens and the Victorian poor. Oh my, I had fun this week! The children not so much, but I took huge delight in threatening to starve my children with a Poor Law diet....in fact, I 'made' them be poor Victorians for a day. Yes, a day. The fuss…
Queen Victoria and Prince Albert {1830-1840}
This post is a hodge podge of all things Victorian Related that we have studied over the past three months which don't fit in well with any of my other 19th century posts. I have focussed much of our work on Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. Queen Victoria and Prince Albert: Resources Books The…
Project Based Learning: A Very Victorian Christmas
Charlotte had the best time learning about how the Victorians celebrated Christmas and planning her very own Victorian Christmas. She put hours and hours of research into this and it went swimmingly. As Nik said, 'Who else could say that they went to a steam punk Victorian themed Christmas party?' It was very cool and…
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…
Around the World in 80 Days: Week 3 – Victorian Drug Use
Fix attempts to waylay Fogg by getting Passepartoute not only drunk but drugged with Opium. This was a good opportunity to do a bit of research into the use of drugs in the 19th century. Victorian Drug Use There were opium dens where one could buy oblivion, dens of horror where the memory of old…
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: Day Five – Steam Punk
All this week we have been wringing every last piece of learning from Around the World in 80 Days. Set with the backdrop of the industrial revolution, Jules Verne is perhaps the perfect author to be studying whilst also dipping our toes into the waters of Victorian Steam Punk. We will be focusing all…
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…