In attempt to get my neglected blog up to date, this post is very picture heavy!
Back in the spring we took a short break in the Lake District to tie in with a unit study we had being doing on the life and work of Beatrix Potter. My favourite place that we visited was Hill Top Farm, her Lake District home which was to become the setting for some of her later books.
Thanks to our Home Educators National Trust card we had some lovely visits to beautiful sites in the Lake District including Wray Castle.
Inside the Castle the children could run about, dress up and play imaginary games.
It was such fun!
The scenery was breath-taking
and the children enjoyed paddling in the lakes and running free in the woodland.
When we came home the children compiled their work into lapbooks.
Another enjoyable day was had at a scarecrow hunt at Styal Mill. The scarecrows were book characters and the children had fun finding them.
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| Burglar Bill |
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| Paddington |
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| The Iron Man |
At one of our spring Christian Home Education meets ups we found out about living things and the children planted sunflower seeds.
After a few weeks, they did some observational drawings in their sketchbooks. They enjoyed looking at the book, Country Diary of an Edwardian Lady, for inspiration
The children planted out their sunflowers into the garden and made labels so that they could keep monitoring whose was the tallest!
I took the oldest three on a trip into Manchester to attend pizza making workshop with some other home educators.
It was such fun finding about where the ingredients came from, making and of course eating our pizzas!
In June it was a special birthday for Daddy and we celebrated with an interesting day out at the Liverpool World Museum.
Paul and I had a rare night away on our own to celebrate his birthday and we returned to the Lake District to see some of the sights at a more leisurely pace.
Birthday season was upon us and we had fun celebrating some friends' birthdays.
Our sweet Miriam turned four and she had a birthday lunch to share with some friends after the church service.
Miriam would be due to start school this September. She is a real joy and is keen to join in with schoolwork with her older brother and sisters.
We finished a project on Electricity
in which the children had fun experimenting with static electricity and making simple circuits with lamps, switches and motors as well as investigating materials which were conductors or insulators.
Our current project is on India and even Elisabeth is keen to join in.
More Geography fun was had at a home ed meet up where we found out about Italy
...and we made even more pizzas!
Whilst we have continued with some school work throughout the summer, we have also had lots of free time to do different things. We went on the Gruffalo trail at Lyme Park on a very hot summer afternoon.
A highlight of July is always the Stockport Carnival where we had a church stall.
Into August, and Nathanael enjoyed a day hiking and a night camping in Edale with Daddy.
I think I have now officially caught up with our family news! Of course I have missed much out (for there have certainly been days which were not blog worthy) but on the whole we have had a very enjoyable spring and summer. God has been good, we are so blessed.
