Our Week

Our second week of term has flown by. On Monday we discovered that white light is made up of lots of different colours.

 

Experiment using candle light and a CD to show the different colours of the rainbow.

The girls are enjoying their projects on pets and have been carrying out simple writing activities and puzzles.

 

 

Nathanael has been working on his lego project and has made a flow chart documenting how lego is made, researched lego through the years and has been completing lego challenges.

 

 

His lego challenge was "What can you make out of 50 lego bricks?"

 

A Monster of course!

On Wednesday Daddy took the Geography lesson, while I had a morning out. The children spent time finding out about Haiti, where a missionary family live that we support. 

 

 

Daddy also helped the children harvest some potatoes and rhubarb from the garden.

 

 

In Little Keepers Club, Tabitha and Abigail made fridge magnets to send as gifts to their Great Granny and Auntie Margaret.

 

 

On Thursday in music, the children worked upon their production of Oliver! Using iMovies they made a trailer for it. They hope you enjoy it! 

 

 

In the afternoon the children made collages of the book of Genesis using the Picture Smart Bible curriculum.

 

 

We had a morning out on Friday at Staircase House in Stockport, a restored townhouse with a rare Jacobean cage-newel staircase. They enjoyed writing with quill pens

 

 

and exploring the rooms that were decorated as different story books.

 

Goldilocks and the five bears!

We have built marble runs

 

 

and tried to make our own stringed instruments using boxes and elastic bands in our technology lesson.

 

Summer

As you can see from the previous post our three week summer break is over.  A lot of cleaning, organising and planning happened in that time. Here are some of the children's highlights of the summer...

 

Stockport Carnival where we had a church stall.

 

 

A lovely family day at Peveril Castle in Castleton.

 

 

Can you spot the children?

 

 

 

Playing new games: Pop For Sight Words and Money Bags.

 

 

 

A morning out to Manchester airport to watch the planes take off and land.

 

 

Tabitha had her 6th Birthday on the same day as my mum's 60th so we celebrated with a trip to the cinema

 

 

and lunch at Pizza Hut.

 

 

We continued with our visits to local libraries and Nathanael made himself a jet pack, following instructions from a library book.

 

 

 As an end of summer treat we went to Froggatt Country Show.

 

 

Punch and Judy

 

Nathanael in spy glasses that he won as a prize in a game.

 We have officially declared summer over and the children are  counting down the days until Christmas!

Our Week

 After our workboxes on Monday morning, we headed out into the woods to climb some trees.

 

 

Miriam had collected a large pile of twigs to make her own imaginary campfire, so Granny suggested we brought them home to build our own fire in the garden.

 

 

We were not experienced (or brave) enough in these things to build a proper campfire on the grass, so we built it on a metal tray on the patio!

 

 

We cooked our beans for lunch on it

 

 

and toasted marshmallows for pudding. Such fun!

 

 

Throughout the week I have been having a sort out of the piles of work and drawings that have been produced this year, recycling a lot, but choosing the best pieces to file away into their individual box files for storage.

 

 

It was lovely to look back at the different things they have produced.

 

 

 

On Wednesday we had a really interesting and enjoyable family day at Eyam in Derbyshire. It was here in 1665 that the plague struck, carried by a flea infested bundle of cotton that was sent from London to a tailor in the village.

 

The cottage where the plague started.

 

 We looked around Eyam Hall, a National Trust property, that was built in the Jacobean style after the plague had ended.

 

 

On Thursday we had our normal morning routine of workboxes and Nathanael wrote his own Psalm, based upon Psalm 100 which we have been studying.

 

 

Tabitha showing her English literature book. Her current theme is Homes.

 The children looked at the work of Vincent Van Gough and Georgia O'Keefe and had a go at creating their own still life drawings using charcoal.

 

 

 

 

Whilst in Stockport Market on Friday we saw BBC Radio Manchester being recorded live. We stopped for a while to watch, and we were taken by surprise as Nathanael and I ended up getting interviewed by Mike Sweeney!

 

 

 

 Nathanael attended his Maker Fun workshop on Saturday morning and he had the opportunity to learn how to make animation with a real life animator, Paul Claessens using a Raspberry Pi. He had been looking forward to this for weeks.

 

Can you see how excited he was?!

Nathanael chose to make an animated Robin Hood from one of his drawings.

 

 

 

I hope to be able to share with you the video he made when it has been edited.

If you are from Manchester, MakerFun will be at the MOSI Maker Faire next weekend and we would highly recommend that you go and try making your own animation with them.

 

Our Week

The weather has been beautiful and whilst we have been continuing with our morning workboxes, we have spent most of our days outside. On Monday we had a musical start to the week,

 

 

playing on the percussion instruments at the park! 

 

Shaking the shakers!

 

On Wednesday we visited a new to us park in Glossop and the children and I had fun paddling in the stream. Even though it was a really warm day, the water was freezing, but the children were not deterred.

 

 

 With Granny's help we made a den in the woods at Lyme Park on Thursday

 

 

 

and ate our picnic lunch inside it.

 

 

As the weather was so lovely, we made a last minute decision to go camping that evening at a local campsite. It was the girls first time camping, and excitement was running very high so we didn't get much sleep but a great time was had by all.

 

 

The children enjoyed playing on a park near the campsite, way past their bedtime!

 

 

Another day, another park, this is one of our favourite places, Tittesworth Reservoir, Leek.

 

 

We were there for our annual Postal Bible School BBQ. Tabitha was pleased to be awarded with a certificate for completing 12 lessons.