Friday, May 23, 2008 - Detective Sunshine

For the past few weeks DD10 has taken an interest in detective stories. I suppose it started with her reading The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle. She found it at the library sale, and was bound and determined to read this unabridged classic. She claims that it is a challenge, but she likes it because she can "hear" the people speaking with their English accents.  

She has also been listening to the free audio of The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle that I downloaded from here

She has been preparing a Detective Lapbook (look for it FREE at Homeschool Share after the BLAST!) and learning all about searching for clues like fingerprints, footprints, hair analysis, handwriting analysis, etc. She examined hair under the microscope to solve the case of "Who took my hairbrush?" and searched for and measured footprints to solve the case of "Who Stomped Through the Garden?"

DD took a break from her Sherlock Holmes book for a day, and read Basil of Baker Street by Eve Titus. This is a story of the mouse that lived with Sherlock Holmes in Merry Old England in 1885. The mouse, Basil, was the greatest detective of the mouse world, learning from the best. Very cute story!

We also happened to have a movie based on Titus' book, The Great Mouse Detective, so we watched that together, as well as a Sherlock Holmes dvd we picked up on the dollar shelf of the grocery store.

I'll post pictures of the tri-folder lapbook she made after the Blast. :-)

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Tuesday, June 17, 2008 - Untitled Comment

Posted by LeslieN

What fun! I loved reading about your detective time and look forward to seeing the unit at HSS.

You are a fun mom!!!

Blessings,
Leslie

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Wednesday, June 25, 2008 - Untitled Comment

Posted by byzhsmomof6

I love your detective post and reading selections.:) It looks like your DD10 is having fun!

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Monday, July 21, 2008 - Untitled Comment

Posted by Anonymous

Your girls' reading and nature study is amazing! I also love all your pictures.

http://tribeof3feistykids.blogspot.com/

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Sunday, August 10, 2008 - Untitled Comment

Posted by KayinPA

Hi,

How's it going? See you don't get blogging much either lately. We have been on a Sherlock Holmes kick too! How funny is that. My dd likes to watch Sherlock Holmes (we have a couple of the Basil Rathbone ones because they are the ones I was familiar with would like to see some other too). She like "The Great Mouse Detective" also. Will have to look for the Basil of Baker St book for her. I just finished reading "The Hound of the Baskervilles" and started "The Valley of Death" I have an all in 1 collection of SH that my dsis gave to me. Anyway hope your summer is going well. Will try to email you soon for my semi annual how are you doing check in. K

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