Life Lately

Nathanael, Tabitha and Abigail attended a print making workshop at Gateway where they explored different techniques.

 

Tabitha's flower print

Using a table as a printing press!

 

On Family Day we visited Dunham Massey, which has been transformed into the Stamford Military Hospital, to mark the centenary of World War I.

 



Dunham was used as a First World War auxiliary hospital from April 1917 to January 1919.

 



Actors took on the roles of nurses and patients to set the scene.

 



To follow on from our Scotland, Wales and Ireland mini unit studies, the children completed a project on England.

 

They made flags of St George and located English landmarks on a map.

 



Nathanael produced a travel brochure to advertise some facts about our country.



Tabitha has been finishing her farm project and writing some simple sentences.

 



 

 

I have started a Little Keepers Club with Tabitha and Abigail, where they will work towards awards and badges. I got them some aprons made with their names on, with which they are delighted.



Abigail working towards her colouring badge.

 

The children had a lot of fun at the Postal Bible School Prize giving.

 



 

We were blessed to have another short break in North Wales.

The oldest Lighthouse in Wales.

It was exciting to take a trip on the funicular railway to the top of the Great Orme in Llandudno.

 



 We walked the town walls in Conwy

 



 

and played at the harbour.

 



We explored Rhuddlan Castle,

 



visited a waterfall,

paddled in a stream

 



and took a ride on a buggy around our caravan site.

 



Back to our normal home school schedule and looking forward to more sunshine.

Gateway Poetry Recital

 

Once a fortnight we attend Gateway, a Christian Home Education group. One of the recent activities was to learn a poem. Although the whole video is well worth watching, our children are on at 4:48.

Healthy Teeth - Human Body Project

Nathanael lost his third milk tooth today! Inspired by his tooth loss and our current project theme The Human Body we have focused our work on teeth.  We started by reading "Topsy and Tim Go To the Dentist" by Jean and Gareth Adamson which used to be my book when I was a child. We then made some of our own books, in the shape of toothbrushes, toothpaste and teeth!

 



 

Taking ideas from the book he read, Nathanael wrote some tips in his own book about keeping teeth healthy. He chose to write, "Eat good food, visit your dentist and brush your teeth when you get up in the morning and in the evening."

 

We carried out a science experiment a few days ago using the second tooth he lost. It was placed it inside a glass of coke overnight and when we took it out it looked like this...

 

 

...disgusting! The children concluded that coke shouldn't be drunk on a regular basis and that you should definitely brush your teeth after having it.

 

 

Much fun was had when the older children made a model of their mouths. They used two rice cakes, mini marshmallows for the teeth, icing sugar for the gums and ham for the tongue!

 

 

Finally they used their sense of taste to eat it! Thanks Gateway for the idea for this last activity.

Our Week

We have had an enjoyable week, catching up with old friends and making some new ones at

Gateway Christian Education group. Our days have been filled with our usual schedule of Home Education. Tabitha's reading is progressing well with lessons from An Ordinary Parent's Guide To Teaching Reading (this book is a great resource and I would highly recommend it.)

 

We have also had several trips to parks and libraries this week as well as our fornightly gymnastics class.

 

Some of the things I have photographed this week...

More fun at Broadbottom



 

where it was even warm enough to take our coats off!

 

 

There has been lots of imaginary play.

 

 

This is what story time looks like in our house, with four book loving children.

 

 

In History, we have moved onto the Victorian era

 

 

and have learnt about Florence Nightingale, the lady with the lamp.

 

 

Last but not least, there was great excitement in our house when we recieved a parcel from South Africa. Thank you se7en for our Lady Jane Grey book.