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 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. 

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. 

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. 

Love Potions, Arithmancy and Magical Creatures!!

        Skyler had a ton of fun this week in potions! She got to make a love potion! This is another one from The Wizards Workshop book. 

        I still think the cute little jokes and notes on the pages are simply adorable! Skyler had fun "casting" her spell too!

Magic Fun

        This week Skyler wasn't feeling too hot. I think she caught a cold from some sick muggles! We made some pretzel wands and enjoyed Strange Magic. I had never heard of this movie before but it had fairies! It also has a magic potion and it's animated so win win for momma wizard! She loved it as well. 

        So it was a pretty quick day for us after the movie she fell asleep. I was also pretty bummed to find there is ZERO merchandise for this movie. The fairies are beautiful and the other characters are amazing, sad nothing was ever done it may have made the movie much bigger! I did read that the soundtrack was available so there is always that I suppose! Happy spell casting!!

Witches And Wands!!

       This week was all about witches and wands! We made some wands that light and even some to eat! We also watched the history of witches!

        Licorice covered in chocolate??? We are so down for that!

Herbology Day!

        Skyler has been wanting to try out her wax sealer so that was what she chose to do as soon as school started! I will say it was pretty cool. She wants more seals now! She was kind of weary about using the lighter so I lit a candle for her to use instead. 

Magic School Day!

        Butter beer ice cream was the first on her list today!! She is pretty much doing everything all by herself now and no longer asking for help so i am pretty thrilled in this area. We just got the recipe off line. 

Our Magical Week

 Magic school day is here!! This is her favorite day of the week I believe.  It was a pretty full day with Cauldron Cooking, Potions, book work, reading and a magical movie! This is the first time using The Wizards Workshop book and I am hoping she can do whatever she chooses pretty much on her own.  The art work in the book is pretty cutesy too. It is divided into three chapters, basic potions for beginners,  advanced wizard potions and hair raising potions for daring wizards. Now this is a cute book I saw it and fell in love right away. It wasn't the kids just mixing random stuff it was actual experiments with reactions but worded in a magical way so it was win win for me! It also came with a handy ingredient list and a set of down loadable labels to make the bottles for everything, which I did of course! Now the first down fall was the whole common ingredients it says that it uses. NO, most of these are not common things people have around their house I had to order a big majority of these chemicals off line. 
       The second down fall was picking potions and realizing we didn't have some of the stuff readily available at home even though I already got everything on the list. That was kind of frustrating. Granted I could have read through the book beforehand but when a book advertises that the list is everything you need I pretty much expect that to follow through. We finally decided on a potion that we had everything needed for and got to work! 

First Week In The New Year

       Fun day with magic! First up we had to take some "back to magic school" pictures!

        I know I am totally partial when I say I think my little witch is the cutest little witch of them all! I love her new school shirt!

Week 7 Magic Fun

      What a fun week for the the little witch and wizard!! It started off with a special delivery from Moon & Moth Magic Co. Skyler loved her last one so much I am so glad she got more! I also adore their packing concept. She really likes the little dried flowers too! 

Week 4 Magic Fun

       
      So we had another project week! These seem to be her favorite weeks of course. We just had to split all the books she is wanting to read and all the activities she is wanting to do because too much in one day was too overwhelming! Alternating the weeks seem to be much, much better! So we started off with potions this week and it was all about mystical sand!
       

Week 2 Magic Fun!

       I was called "best mom ever" and "coolest mom in the world" several times after today! Apparently, not many moms teach their child fire based potions in the house or make butter beer fudge! This was project week and we had a blast to be truthful I loved every minute of it! The potion we did today was burning basilisk skin and it was awesome! I knew it would be wonderful so after she finished all her mixing I decided to video the outcome. 

Week 1 2017 2018 Magic Fun

     To kick off our first back to Magic School day, we watched the best movie ever, Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them! Skyler absolutely adored it she said it was even cooler than Harry Potter movies! It must have something to do with the fact that it was all about the animals of course! Today was all about the Magical Creatures as far as Skyler was concerned. 

     For Cauldron Cooking she brewed up a cool pixie punch smoothie! (blueberry smoothie for ya muggles).

     She drank from her super cool hand painted Herbology glasses too! 

     

Week 11 Of Magic Fun

     She was up at almost seven to watch this movie! Plants Behaving Badly. It was all about orchids and she was loving how many different ones there were and how many colors. She even had her breakfast while watching it. 

     For Magical Creatures we have started dragons! I adore dragons. I adore anything dinosaur like so that is most likely why dragons fit the bill for me. We will most likely stick with dragons for a few weeks since there is so much to do with them. I have had the Dragonology book and writing set for years. We still love them. 

Week 10 Of Magic Fun!

     It was project week so FUN FUN!!!! Skyler finished the book What Were the Salem Witch Trials? She had never really heard about any of that type of stuff before so she was a bit amazed. She was shocked people actually thought that way and even put others to death. So, it was a history eye opener for sure!

Magic Fun Week 8

     
     Today was project day! Sadly the movie with the unicorn didn't arrive in time so we just read a bit about unicorns. She did cook though! We made Kreachers onion soup. I will openly admit we used a package LOL. None of us are terribly crazy about onions but we wanted to try it along with the bread my son enjoys baking. We added some Butterbeer and had a great lunch!

Magic Fun Week 6

   This week she finished up watching Animal Planets documentaries about mermaids for Magical Creatures. I found this cool little mermaid soap making kit at Five Below for her to make as a project this week! So she watched the movie, made soap and made a page about the movie for her journal she is putting together! 

     "Hooray"!!!! She also found her class shirt!

Week 5 of Magic Fun!

      Week five was magical as usual!! This week we added some grammar and had fun watching a mermaid documentary! Animal Planet has two amazing mermaid documentaries that are just that amazing! The first is called The Body Found and the other is New Evidence. I love how they take on a whole new world in these "documentaries"! This week we watched the first. 

   She is also sporting her new pretty Gryffindor head band. She has a complete uniform that I have yet to take actual pics in. I need to find her the perfect shoes of course first!