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 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. 

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!

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!!

Breakfast For Witches

        Because we all need to start every day with a little bit of magic!

Week 8 Magic Fun

      Magic School project week!! The best weeks in my opinion! Getting up and doing stuff! "What fun".







       She actually remembered to wear her shirt too!

Potions And Pets!

       A while back Skyler made a dragons egg and since then it has sat in the Mandrake pot! What she didn't know is that all this time a baby dragon was growing inside it! She just had to wait until it was cold enough for it to hatch! Since Florida rarely sees actual cold I never dreamed this would happen but low and behold some spells were cast and we had BRRRRRRR freezing temps!! Well, out hatched her newest little friend! 

      A new baby dragon she has named Tempest! I knew I would raise at least one Shakespeare addict!

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 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 3 of Magic Fun!!!!

     This week in Herbology Skyler received a baby Ziniber (ginger) to plant from Professor Sprout! This is the Mandrakes cousin. Apparently it screams as well! I use many ideas from the Hogwarts Yahoo Groups! 

Week 2 of Magic Fun!!

     It seems even our cat Gizmo wants to get in on Magic School. This was a rough day. We woke up late and never got through everything we had planned. Regardless of that, we still had a blast!! 

       She started her day off dissecting an owl pellet for Magical Creatures. I felt this was really cool she did not. To her it was gross and poor mouse who had been eaten by an owl. It ended with her burying the poor little bones. What can I say she has a soft heart. I know that comes from me so it is all good. 

Our First Week Back!

      Well we had our Magic School Day for the week and it was a win all the way around! We read, we learned, we played and had a blast! This week she decided to concentrate on frogs for Magical Creatures. That may have something to do with our field trip a few weeks ago. I got some notebooking pages off line to make her a journal of sorts so she could keep track of all the things she does instead of boring work sheets! I also added some dyslexic games from The Thinking Tree since she loves them so much! When we are all done I will have it all bound together for a keep sake. For her cover she chose to color a picture of the Gryffindor crest! 
   

     

     Of course the cats had to get in on the action! I suppose they could be magical creatures too.