Category Archives: Unit Studies
We’re Going On A Nature Walk!
Our first nature walk of the 2013-2014 school year was last week. We have a very large old cemetery in our neighborhood, with hills, mature trees, lots of cover for birds, and paved paths for walking! Taking a group of … Continue reading
Art History: Prehistoric and Ancient Art Activities and Expedition Report
We’re kicking off our study of Art History with a look at some ancient art forms from around the world. Since we’ll be looking at Greek and Roman art separately I want to start by looking at cave and aboriginal … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Art, Elementary Education, homeschooling, Unit Studies
Tagged Art History, Expeditions and Field Trips
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Our “Easy Day”
One of my goals this year is to relax about school and getting things done. I find I have a habit of over-pressuring myself and then over-pressuring everyone else, so I deliberately made school plans this year to give us … Continue reading
Posted in Elementary Education, homeschooling, Life, preschool educcation, Schedule, Uncategorized, Unit Studies
Tagged A Day In The Life
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Art History for Second and Third Grade
This post contains affiliate links. I’ve been working on putting together an art history curriculum/unit study for the big children this year- mostly because I want to start training them to recognize beauty and I found some excellent resources at … Continue reading
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Tagged Art, Art History, VMFA
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Art History Outings At The VMFA
One of the things I’ve wanted to do for some time, but haven’t managed to work up the courage to do, is to take the children to the Virginia Museum of Fine Art. It’s free, it’s ten minutes from here … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Art, Elementary Education, homeschooling, Uncategorized, Unit Studies
Tagged Events, VMFA
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Recovery (And Planning)
Sometimes I just need to take a little time off. This past week has been one of those times. Not that I haven’t been working, it just hasn’t been blogging work! Last weekend was the HEAV Convention which was great … Continue reading
Tutorials: DIY Lab Tray For Dissections
One of the things I know Mouse is going to need for her Life of Plants study is a lab tray for holding specimens while she dissects them. I bought a dissection kit for her at last year’s HEAV convention … Continue reading
Unit Studies: The Life of Plants
Mouse started her new Science Unit today. I’ve been working on compiling it for a while (and I have some more to do) but I had enough done that I could let her start! I’m mostly trying to introduce her … Continue reading
The Budding Engineer: Lego Bridge Project
Now that Buggle can read he really prefers to spend his roomtime with his nose in a book. This is all very good but since I don’t want him to only spend time in his mind I’ve been looking for … Continue reading
Unit Study: Explorers (Ships of the Age of Discovery)
In the years between the adventures of Marco Polo and the sailing of Christopher Columbus there were some important changes in ship design. On Thursday we looked at how a change in rigging made it possible for ships to sail … Continue reading