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This is the final post regarding our Harry Potter Triwizard Tournament.
My daughter made riddles for two different tasks. Here they are:
For Task 1 (the Champions had to pass a mysterious “monster” who made them correctly guess who he was before they could pass):
In the Forbidden Forest I hide, I have many legs and many […]

See “How to: Make Nifty Book Boxes for Our Triwizard Tournament Task 3” for the first part of this topic.
We made two puzzles for Task 3 of our Tri-Wizard Tournament: a crossword puzzle and a cypher. The cypher gave directions to the Champions of what they were supposed to do in Task 3. […]

For Task 3 in our Harry Potter class Triwizard Tournament, we decided to take a slightly different approach. The actual task was a search at Agua Caliente (a local park), a riddle from a Sphinx (my older daughter played this role), a race to the Triwizard Cup, and a duel with Voldemort himself (a […]

My daughter needed dragon eggs. Since dragons are rare and difficult to find, combined with the fact that we’re vegan and try never to use animal products (especially the babies of a species), we’ve been working on creating our own magically made up ones. Here’s how we did it:

Get a large plastic Easter […]

The following post is a guest post from my 11 year old Always Unschooled daughter, Zoë. This is her very first written report and she’d like to share it with the world. She wrote it for the Harry Potter class that I wrote about in my “My Unschooled 11 Year Old — Right […]

Happy LEAP Day! Leap Day is one of my all time favorite days. It’s a Bonus day that always makes me think of rainbows and smiles! To celebrate this occasion, I’ve made a list of my favorite reasons I’m glad I started this blog. I’m also giving each of my daughters […]

My Always Unschooled 11 year old daughter is, right now, writing a report. [By the time this posts, this information will be old news, but I’m still going to continue with the story in present tense.]
My daughter has been taking a weekly “Mythology of Harry Potter” class since last September. The class is run […]

Favorite Adult Fiction of 2007 (in no particular order). Sadly, I don’t think any of these can make my “Top 10 Fiction Books of All Time”, but they are good (if they weren’t I wouldn’t have written this list at all).

Veil of Roses by Laura Fitzgerald; Woman’s Lit combined with Romance. I met the […]

Here are our Young Adult/Children’s Non-Fiction. Many of these are in the “Ologies” books. All of these beautiful books have notes and pockets (with treasures) scattered throughout. Some have games and all have highly detailed covers (with gems). These are not flimsy and whimsical books, but highly detailed and accurate in […]

Similar to our Top 10 Movies, today and the next few days are our Top 10 Books (divided into five categories: Young Adult Fiction, Young Adult/Children’s Non-Fiction, Adult Fiction, Adult Non-Fiction, and Children’s Fiction) for 2007 (all read by at least one person in my family). Most did not come out in 2007, we’ve just […]