Week 5 Of Some Magic!!!

       New week and new Owl Post!! 

        She also decided outta the blue to take a Harry Potter sorting quiz and confirmed her Gryffindor status!

Week 4 Of Magic!!!

        I keep meaning to do something really cool with that mirror! I keep running out of time and forgetting though! She started her day by checking her Owl Post and was happy to see a package delivered sometime in the night!

        Her special delivery today comes from The Inked Goddess! It is a Wee Witches Altar set-up! 

Magical Learning!!!

       We have made it to week 3!! I do believe her cat looks shocked that this happened! Skyler has 6 yes 6 cats but this one right here is her absolute favorite. Her name is Stella Luna after the baby bat from a book and Stella is usally wherever Skyler is. 

        She is enjoying her creative writing for Enchanments. My hope is that she can get to a point she will no longer need writing prompts. She is such a creative child it is hard to beleive writing is not a thing for her. 

Week 2 Magic!!!

       This week she was ready to take on the world and change copper to gold! Like I had said before her Alchemy is learning all about metals. 

Happy Full Moon And Friday The 13TH

        I literally found this online late last night and tossed it together this morning! A little more time I could have really done it up but I think it turned out pretty peachy! The printables are from Party Pinching and so cute!!!! They are also free so even better! Happy Friday the 13th and it is also a FULL MOON!!!! Beyond Harry Potter this house does all things scary as well. Halloween is our time!

First Day Magic!

       Today was technically the first day of Magic School. Like every other first day we just went over what she will be doing, what we are learning about and making chocolate frogs! 

     I just love how her little owl post box turned out! It's a good thing I also adore owls! She got her first Alchemy experiments, her new quill set and Charm Post!

     Normally I would have had everything wrapped in brown paper with some twine but I have been working nights and I am so forgetful and tired lately! Also good is that my little witch understands that owls get tired too!

     She isn't quite sure what to do with her Charm Post yet but I am sure once we add some stuff she will see how magical her letters are!

Magical Spaces

        Well this is Skyler's Magical Spaces for the year! Of course things will change and get added as the year goes by. First up is my desk of course! After all that is where all the magic starts! I pick stuff up everywhere there is no one place it comes from. 

        I love Fawkes the Phoenix! He was an EBay score for 10 bucks with free shipping! I hardly find cheap stuff but I guess since he was used they didn't think he was worth much!

        

Magical Lesson Plans!

My little witch is 15!!! It is hard to believe we started doing Magic School back when she was so little and have been off and on with it all these years! This is most likely our last year though focusing on it so much because she is getting older and it is getting harder to magic-fy things with her! It has taken a big chunk of my summer deciding things and researching and putting it all together, sadly my magic wand was out of order for all that.....

        So this will be the start of our year, as she finishes certain things others will be added. As things are found or thought up we add little things here and there all year. She will be reading many many books of course! I also wanted it to be more hands on and less writing because she seems to learn better that way. Don't get me wrong writing is important of course I just didn't want to concentrate on her writing down every little thing like we have in the past. These are a few of the books we will start off with this year. Calling All Witches is about all of the wonderful ladies in the Hogwarts world. Now the reason I chose this was because I really want Skyler to learn about amazing things women have done in our world. I want her to grow up with the healthy thought that girls can do anything! I think it is important to know that witches are just as important as wizards! The Bake Like  pro graphic novel is for Cauldron Cooking. It is a wizard who teaches the kids how to bake, but also the science behind it. Why certain things react they way they do in the kitchen. We will also of course do other things for Cauldron Cooking but this looked fun so I added it in. Wild Things is for Magical Nature. This is packed with tons of little nature projects with a magical theme and I love getting Skyler outside in the fresh air doing things. 

       

Waldock's Wizards and Wands is a new thing this year! While I changed some stuff up from the written idea of this curriculum it is still amazing! Her resource list is so out of this world it may as well be magic! You can just tell the work that went into this.  It has just about everything you can think of included in it. The wonderful witch who wrote this put hours into it and you can see that! Many of the things she has planned we have already done but it was still an amazing resource to have and use. It is a year long study on just about every subject Hogwarts offers their students as well as reading the Harry Potter series. 

Wizard School Field Trip!!!!!

       We had so much fun at the Wizard's Training Day in Gainesville! At first Skyler was a little leery thinking it would be all little kids but she brightened up when she saw plenty of older kiddos and even adults. Today is also the day I realize I really need to use my new phone because this camera is just crazy. Her awesome pictures do not look so awesome. We had an awesome day though!

Magical Creatures and Cauldron Cooking

        This week Skyler did some cooking and read about a magical creature we had never heard of before! It was found in her Monster Book of Monsters. 

Potions and Merlin!

       This week the girls played with the potions set from Moon and Moth Magic Co. We also had an amazing field trip to a Medieval Fair where Skyler got to meet the greatest wizard of all time! 

        Skyler got to meet Merlin!!!! She had such fun at the fair and such fun meeting a fellow magic friend! She also enjoyed picking out a baby dragon to add to her collection! 

Magic Fun!!

       Once again I find us playing with fire! She absolutely loves fire portions. This week was a protection spell. It gave us a tough time too! We had to switch out the "cursed paper" twice to find one that would work. She still had a ton of fun though. 

       When telling her not to use this near any of her cyclops friends she informed me that a cyclops was a cannibal and they didn't make good friends LOL!

New Year New Magic!

       Skyler has a new cursive book!! I found this little gem on Amazon and it was a must have!

        I am basically letting her go her own way and do a few pages that she picks out. 

Special Owl Post Delivery!

        Since Skyler is such a lover of Magical Creatures and we all know she is destined to become the greatest Magizoologist of all time Hagrid must know this and decided she needed a little gift! It arrived in the night by owl post as all magical parcels do! 

        I think Hagrid is getting old and forgetful though! Skyler is by far no longer a First Year! Either way she was super excited at getting a package!