Back to posting

It's been way too long since I posted and there is always so much to post about.  Like the past few days, for example.  We've done so many wonderful things together.  Braeden and I have had a great time playing our new game.  You really want to make this game!  It teaches so many math concepts at once.  He also informed me that the book he was reading had "a lot of strong verbs" in it.  I love it!  He's reading Daniel Boone and Ralph S. Mouse right now.  We are reading books from various genres and also adding up all of our books to reach 100 books.  We have our own magazine publishing house right now, too.  Our magazine is called "The Hourglass" and our first publication went out a couple of weeks ago with a special election edition due out on Tuesday.  We wrote several things for it over this weekend and have it nearly ready.  We also examined an owl pellet this weekend (school happens all the time...) and made Q-tip skeletons.  It's just so fun doing things together and laughing as we learn.  

Marauder's Maps

The kids had a great time creating marauder's maps.  They chose to make the maps of our Smithindor.  Gracyn's is the first one you see with the pop-up second story.  Braeden's is next which includes the "unknown room."  It was fun to see how their minds work and to see how they drew out the space we call "home."  They both did an excellent job!  

peacock feather quill

Gracyn had the superb idea to make her loooong peacock feather into a quill for her harry potter writing assignments.  You'll have to click on the pic to make it bigger.  Very clever.

Kaegan presents his US Lapbook to his dad!

wizard, Gracyn

We got a harry potter game for the wii!!

Wheeeee!

It has been so much fun...the kids could hardly stop playing it to eat and sleep!

I also ordered some calligraphy pens to use as quills and Gracyn has been using her loooong peacock feather as a quill.  The calligraphy pens make cursive practice fun.  

We finished our comic book pages, but I can't get blogger to post it.  It turned out great.  I kept having to remind the kids that it was a Latin assignment....use some latin words!  haha!  They had fun with it.  We are also still working on our creative writing assignment of making a Monster Book of Monsters.  Gracyn wrote the chapter of the Boggart in the Closet as a play and we will soon be acting that out for you!  Lots going on!  And super fun!

Latin charms and spells

Here is a preview of the comic book we are creating with our latin charms and spells...

Outstanding

Braeden learns about the parts and functions of plants in his herbology study.  Beautiful cursive writing, too.

Breaden scored "OUTSTANDING" on his arithmancy O.W.L.