A New School Year

    Well, today was our first day of the 2019-2020 school year.  We don't officially start our Hogwarts Homeschool for another week, as we use our first week for review and covering our outlines and just getting back into the swing of school "routine".  It was a great day though.  I was able to get the Hogwarts House Crest Banner done that I was working on a couple days ago so it could hang on our barren wall.  I think it turned out pretty well.

    Along with the normal review for the everyday subjects, we learned a bit about Harry Potter's author, J.K. Rowling and for art did our first beginner's wand.  (I have other wand making projects on our list to do over the school year, but this one seemed like a simple easy project to begin with.)  We basically followed instructions from Instructables Living that you can find here. We didn't do nearly as well as they did, lol, but it was fun and Cade made a wand he was pretty proud of.

Here he is rolling his paper for his wand.

His finished project.

    He wanted to incorporate the Deathly Hallows on the wand, so that's where the triangles, circles and lines come in on his design. I thought it was a pretty cool idea.

Wingardium Leviosa!  My goofball kid thinks upside down is better and likes the wider end for the pointer end.  Gotta love him!

    Overall we had a great day, and he even expressed the desire to learn more about J.K. Rowling and her personal life. I find that so cool!  I can't wait to see what is in store for this year!