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 Field Trip!!

        We are the granddaughters of the witches you couldn't burn.... It has been a long standing tale that my mother was a witch in her day! Witches are something that have always fascinated both myself and my daughters. Not all witches are bad and history and mythology is full of stories of them. Even Shakespeare who we all adore had witches in his plays. 

        We have read about executions of so called "witches" before but until coming to this museum we had no idea the absolute depravity of it all. We knew witches had been burned at the stake before and hung but I guess you really have to see it to understand. We went to The Medieval Torture Museum to learn how criminals and such were treated back then. We really didn't know we would find so many things about witches.  

Magical Field Trip!

         We had so much fun! The traveling exhibit of Harry Potter's World Renaissance, Science, Magic and Medicine was local! I actually stumbled across this years ago but it has never been close enough to visit so this was really cool to finally be able to go!

       So much of the Magical World is from actual history. It is so interesting to learn where certain ideas and such are rooted from. 

Magic Fun Week 9 And A Field Trip!!

      This was our book work week so not any projects but still magical fun! We did finally get our movie The Last Unicorn. Skyler really enjoyed that! 

     Stella Luna is never too far from Skyler. Her own personal petter LOL!

     We use the Harry Potter Vocabulary Builder book for her to look up three words every week. She writes the definition and gives me a sentence!

A Magical Field Trip

     When I heard the Gainesville Museum was putting on a Fantastic Beasts event I knew we had to go! While magic school is a fond memory we still enjoy the magical world! We met up with awesome friends and the fun began!

     We started of getting sorted and of course Skyler was Gryffindor! The first activity was a scavenger hunt for fantastic beasts and potronus images.