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Harry Potter Inspired Curriculum Harry Potter Curriculum Online Resources JK Rowling has launched #harrypotterathome. On her website: https://www.wizardingworld.com/collections/harry-potter-at-home. She has posted some activities to inspire you. These include quizzes, word searches and drawing lessons. You could even find out what Hogwarts House you belong to! On this website, there is also lots of extra information about the wizarding world written by JK Rowling! Audible has also helped and you can access Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone (the first book) for free on their website. Bloomsbury, who publish the Harry Potter books, also have a website. They have a section that includes quizzes, name generators, glossaries and a who’s who! https://harrypotter.bloomsbury.com/uk/fun-stuff/ Find some more activity ideas below! Potions Care of Magical Creatures Care of Magical Creatures Create a potion just like Professor Snape. All The full-scale Aragog and his children that wait Design a magical creature. In the Wizarding you will need are small bottles, beakers or jars, within the Forbidden Forest are truly terrifying, World there are many Fantastic Beasts! Many bicarbonate of soda, vinegar and food but fortunately, local spiders are decidedly less are two or three ‘ordinary’ animals combined colouring. Using a pipette (or similar) drip food scary, so seek them out. Hagrid told Harry and and all of them have magical properties. colouring into a teaspoon of bicarbonate of Ron to follow a trail of spiders in The Chamber Centaurs, half horse half man, are intelligent soda to make it change colour. Add a few of Secrets, so why not organise a spider hunt beings who love to stargaze. Phoenixes are spoons of vinegar and watch the two react, around your garden. You will just have to reborn from fire and their tears have healing fizzing and bubbling up together as if by magic. overcome your own arachnophobia first… powers. Nifflers are inquisitive and collect or If you add a lot of vinegar, the liquid will Create a picture log of all the creepy crawlies steal other people’s treasure. Draw your own bubble over the sides of the beaker, so cover you find! Afterwards you could research magical creature and write a description all work surfaces with a protective layer before amazing facts about the bugs you found. including what magical properties they have. you start, or take your cauldrons outside. The Sorting Hat Wand Lore Divination Visit the Harry Potter at Home website and Create a wand! Go outside and find the perfect Practise your origami skills and create a take the quiz to be sorted into a house. Once stick! Decorate it so that it is truly magical. You fortune-teller even Professor Trelawney would you have been sorted, create a poster all about could add ribbons, glitter, pipe cleaners, paint, be proud to own. You could either use the your new house. You could include the house wool or any other craft materials you have at template at the bottom of this document or crest, house colours, famous members of your home! Once it is complete start practising your create your own from plain paper. This video house, qualities members possess, what the spells! will show you how to make it: common room looks like and why you are https://youtu.be/SAhiIlTxUYA proud to be a member. Quidditch Albus Dumbledore The Mirror of Erised When paying Quidditch, the seeker has to find When a young witch or wizard is invited to join In the first book, Harry discovers the Mirror of and catch the golden snitch. The seeker that Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, Erised. The mirror show you an image of you catches the snitch earns their team 180 points! the headmaster Albus Dumbledore writes each with your heart’s desire. Harry sees his family, Play Hide the Golden Snitches. You can find student a letter to welcome them to the Ron sees himself as Head Boy and Quidditch some Golden Snitches at the bottom of this school. He also tells them how to board the Captain and Professor Dumbledore sees document or draw your own. Ask an adult or train and what they will need. Pretend you are himself holding new socks (you can never have take it in turns with your siblings to hide 10 Professor Dumbledore and write a Hogwarts enough pairs). Draw yourself or another snitches around your home. Make it tricky! The letter to someone you know. You could even character from the book in the mirror. What winner is the seeker with the most snitches at age the paper to make it look like parchment would you/they be holding or doing? Write a the end. using tea or coffee. paragraph explaining what you have drawn. The Daily Prophet Defence Against The Dark Arts Wizarding Money The Daily Prophet reports all of the most In his third year at school, Professor Lupin Currency in the Wizarding World consists of important news in the wizarding world. Pick an teaches Harry to cast the Patronus charm. This galleons (g), sickles (s) and knuts (k). event from the Harry Potter series and write a charm causes a silvery animal to appear from 1 gold galleon is equal to 17 silver sickles 1 newspaper article about it for the Daily the end of your wand and chases away silver sickle is equal to 29 knuts. Prophet. You could choose: The Quidditch dementors, the terrifying guards for Azkaban At the bottom of this document you will find: 2 World Cup (book 4), Harry’s challenge against a prison. Each person’s Patronus charm is a price lists for shops and some maths problems dragon (book 4), Sirius Black’s escape from different animal that is special and represents to solve. Azkaban (book 3), Harry Potter’s return to the him or her. Harry’s is a stag, Hermione’s is an You could: wizarding world (book 1), The Chamber of otter, Ginny’s is a horse, Ron’s is a Jack Russel Solve the maths problems provided Secrets being reopened at Hogwarts (book 2) Terrier and Albus Dumbledore’s is a phoenix. Create your own pricelists for other or think of your own favourite moment! Draw the animal that you think would be your shops for example – Madame Malkin’s https://www.theschoolrun.com/what-is- Patronus. Write a paragraph describing the Robes, Florean Fortescue’s Ice Cream journalistic-writing animal and why you think it represents you. Parlour or Weasley’s Wizards wheezes Create your own maths problems and solve them Auror Training Chocolate Frog Cards Herbology In the wizarding world, Aurors are responsible Every chocolate frog comes with a card that Professor Sprout looks after all of the plants at for tracking down dark wizards and arresting has details about famous witches and wizards. Hogwarts in the greenhouses and the students them. In the books many dark wizards are Create your own Chocolate Frog cards with help her, learn about different plants and learn mentioned e.g. Bellatrix Lestrange, Voldemort, characters from the books and use them to how to look after them. Lucious Malfoy, Gellert Grindelwald and many play Harry Potter Top Trumps. Categories could Plant something new at home or take others. include magical ability, amount of family responsibility for a plant you are already Create a wanted poster for a dark wizard. You members, courage, wisdom, cunning, age or growing. Make a sketch of it and label the could include a picture, a physical description, goodness. There is a template at the bottom of parts, research the plant and find out some information about why they are dangerous and this document or you could create your own. new information about it and create a diary a reward for sightings or captures. where you can record how you take care of it over a week. How much change would you have if you brought two bottles of butter beer with a galleon? How much would it cost to buy 2 blood flavoured lollies, 2 ice mice, 1 large bottle of acid pop and 1 small packet of Bertie Botts every flavoured beans? Neville Longbottom wants to buy some levitating sherbet balls. In his pocket he has 2 sickles and 9 knuts. How many can he buy? Hermione has 2 sickles. How many chocolate frogs can she buy? How much change will she get? I have 5 galleons and I want to buy 4 different books. Which books should I buy to spend the least amount of money? How much change will I get? .
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