Sherlock Mystery Files

 My sister is teaching A&P for the T.A.G. (Talented And Gifted) program this week for 10-14 year olds. So I helped her design some learning centers. Each day will have medical mysteries correlated with the system they are studying. We're also incorporating critical thinking and scientific inquiry. I won't post the whole series here, but here's the first one:

Creative Commons photo of 19th century Sherlock. I just printed in B&W on parchment paper. 

Each story is printed on cardstock and I have incorporated some critical thinking / scientific inquiry questions:

Answer can be deduced by flipping up the card:

On back of story is a pocket holding "The London Times" front page:

Vintaged up.

I printed this out on parchment & distressed:

Here's an easier version to read:

I'll prolly do a video demo after the class is finished to show all the folders.  :-)

Sherlock Star Trek . . .

I have a Sherlock board on Pinterest. This is a picture floating around that I labeled as a Sherlock Holmes / Star Trek mash up:

 I was mistaken. Not Star Trek. I have been waiting til Mum saw The Empty Hearse before I could post this!  :-)

Wrong Address

I got a card in the mail with the same house number, different street address. So I put it back in the post box with this:

Laundry

Last weekend was really warm. I miss my laundry days at the River House. 

When I first moved here, I thought I'd keep doing the hanging-laundry-on-the-line thing. But life was a bit faster here. Plus, my laundry isn't safe on the line when it's sharing the same back yard with a beagle. So I took the lines down. 

I kept this one up, tho:

Altho, apparently NOT safe from Tabby Bobcat:

Out of the way until he leaves.

Those two sweaters are both silk-and-something. And worse, Dry Clean Only. And since I was 

I decided to illustrate how I feel about said dry cleaning thru Sherlock. Spoiler alert to Mum--and you prolly won't remember this, and it doesn't give anything away. You just won't get the reference. I'll remind you when we watch this particular episode together. So here we go: