Harry Potter Unit Study
We are loving the Harry Potter Build Your Library Unit study.
We started with The Sorcerer's Stone of course
The unit study includes making a reference book of Magical Devices, starting with the Put-Outer
There are carefully selected copywork and dictation activities. I used a free worksheet generator to make copywork pages for the selections.
After learning about what Knickerbock Glories are, we decided to write our own recipes:
Then made some with ingredients we had on hand, (you know for educational purposes)
We did later buy the Unofficial Harry Potter Cookbook which has recipes for this and many other treats
one day, some letters arrived via owl to invite the kids to listen to the next chapter.
I found one of many "hogwarts letter envelope template"s off of the google.
And then Ellie learned how to address an envelope by practicing Harry's address in the cupboard under the stairs.
In addition to the Magical Devices book, we are also making a spell book. As we read a new spell in the book, we research the words to see if they are Latin and dissect the word. I made a worksheet to make it easier:
I also wanted a worksheet for vocabulary words we came across. Using both the Unit Study curriculum and also just highlighting new or interesting words as we read (the ebook) we made a page for each:
(the picture was lost, sorry)
(I made these worksheets using a free font generator)
To add some math into the unit study, I searched google for "Harry Potter math" and found some activites:
This one provided a list of school supplies, and prices of many items in each Diagon Alley store and gave a budget. We calculated the cost and made change and practiced counting the money. We love our Melissa and Doug money set, because sometimes I just do not have hundreds of dollars in various bills just laying around to play with.
For Penny, I found this color by numbers page
To tie some science into the Mirror of Erised, we did a symmetry lesson. We used a dry erase alphabet board and drew lines on the vertical and horizontal axis for the letters that are symmetrical. Example A is vertically symmetrical, B is horizontally symmetrical. We looked at both upper and lower case letters. We also took turns drawing symmetrical shapes too.
(tip, to help me remember which is vertical and which is horizontal, I always think of a vertebrae and a horizon).
Then I found a mirror to do some writing and reading backwards. I used a empty clear dry erase pocket (which are awesome for re-using worksheets and some workbooks) and had Ellie write what she most desires, the flipped it over and tried to read it, then held the mirror to it to try again to read it.
We are not done with the unit yet, but I plan to update the post when we are!
(you can see that we do a lot of our school work on my unmade cluttered bed, with a newborn baby who nurses 57 times a day, this is our life now)
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