Hogwarts at Home 2nd Quarter

She decided, (under pressure) to continue with Arithimancy, and add Herbology, Potions and History of Magic with a focus on fairy tales, for her Spring quarter, (13 weeks again).

Herbology wound up being a great way for her to bond with her grandparents who visited early in the quarter for a few weeks. It was taught by Professor Sprout. She had flowery handwriting but was down to earth in the way she spoke. I had found a workbook at a used book store for $2.50 about how plants grow that I copied pages out of, (2-3/week). We spent a little more getting two small plastic planter boxes, potting soil, and seeds, (I let her choose three types of flowers for one box and three vegetables in the other). We made a watering and weeding chart and wrote a one or two sentence "what happened" to send to Hogwarts, (She dictated, I wrote on regular lined paper then she copied it onto primary ruled paper and we send her copy).

Potions was fun. It was taught by Professor Snape. Serious, scathing, Snape. She was assigned one potion a week to guess what would happen, complete the potion, then observe what did happen, and write about it. She made pudding, (I measured the dry mix and divided it into single servings, and put one serving in a baggy. Then she measured and added a single serving's worth of milk into it and shook it until it thickened.), Jello, (similar single serving to pudding. I did the boiling water.), Mentos and soda, vinegar and baking soda, (again in later weeks adding dish soap), oil and water lava lamps, cabbage juice, ice cream, corn starch and water, silly putty, and a few more I can't remember.

History of Magic- Fairy Tales was taught by Professor Bunker, a little flowery but short and sweet style of writing. She was assigned a fairy tale per week. She had to read, (or be read to), three versions of it and had to write the title and what was different about it. She got other activities (coloring pages, finger puppets, paper dolls, stickers, or whatever I could find or it) to do as well. We tried to find a version of it that had been made into a movie or cartoon to watch and discuss what was different in that from the the versions we read.