I had already previously done the Hogwarts House Crests on canvas. Regardless of my son's hesitancy in Harry Potter, I've been a bit of a Potter head for a while...lol.
And I just finished Cade's bigger canvas with his house on it yesterday for his bedroom door...
At the end of the last school year, when we decided we were going to do the theme for this year we put the Hogwarts Houses into a hat, (our sorting hat) and he pulled a house out. We did this so we could figure out what we wanted to do for his room.
I also finished this two nights ago. Our Hogwarts Express platform 9 and 3/4 sign, (on foam board). I have plans for it, if it works, but I will reveal that later...
Over the next couple weeks, I plan to come up with and complete more projects in between life and lesson plans, but this is a start. At least where our new home decor is concerned...
As far as schooling goes, our main goal (theme-wise) is to get through all 7 Harry Potter books before school is out in June. Our weekly vocabulary and spelling words come straight from our planned reading for the week. After our reading, we have reading comprehension worksheets I am designing myself. (So far I have written and put together our curriculum each year instead of using a commercial curriculum. That will change in a couple years, especially for math.)
Our art class or what we are calling Transfiguration, (we are transfiguring things into art, right? ) will contain a lot of Harry Potter themed arts and crafts, (more decor for the house...lol) And our normal subjects will be hidden within the Hogwarts subjects as well.
Charms class will be our language arts subjects. After all, charms rely on words, right? Of course Arithmancy translates into Arithmetic...good old fashioned math. History of Magic will be our US History class and Ancient Ruins will be our Geography, (which we will be focusing primarily on England.) We can't forget Defense Against the Dark Arts, which will be predominantly health classes dealing with anti bullying, fire safety, stranger interaction/stranger danger, online and web safety, and everyday home safety. Flying/Quidditch well that is all part of P.E. Muggle Studies will be music and anything that we have to cover that doesn't logically fit into any Hogwarts equivalent.
Now, quite a few classes will be part of our science curriculum. We are starting with Care of Magical Creatures, in the Muggle world, that will be Introduction to Zoology. Of course this means a trip to the zoo, but we are also going to pick and research some of the more rare species that might seem like they should be in Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them. And watching that will be on the list of things to do for zoology as well as identifying species specific needs, nocturnal/diurnal/crepuscular identification, endangered and extinct and native to our state animals.
Astronomy and Divination would be next up on the list. We'll be doing Astronomy and (the theory of) Astrology. Cade loves the night skies and has a great appreciation for nature and it's beauty.
Potions. Now here is a no brainer. Introduction to Chemistry. We've done different "experiments" with chemical reactions and such, this will give us a great forum to build on that and hello Pinterest! Harry Potter experiments all over the place! Watch out Professor Snape! Here we come.
Alchemy was a bit harder to find a place for in our Muggle education. What we settled on was an Introduction to Geology. Studying the minerals and metals our earth is made from and rock formations and classes of rock.
Lastly, Herbology. Another one that was easy to translate to Muggle.... Botany. We've done a lot of studies on plants, what they need, classification and so forth. For this class we will be visiting a plant nursery, focusing on edible plants/fruit bearing plants and medicinal properties of plants and herbs.
There's always room for more ideas if they come up, and in science we always like to leave space for topics that catch Cade's interest that he wants to learn more about, but that is our outline for studies in relation to our Hogwarts Homeschool theme.
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