Family Day - Manchester Museum, Ancient Worlds Exhibition

To tie in with our current history unit on Ancient Egypt, we took a trip into Manchester to see the new Ancient Worlds Exhibition at The Manchester Museum.

 

 

 

Assyrian writing and image.

 

 

A reed basket that the children imagined could have belonged to baby Moses.

 

 

 

An Egyptian Mummy!

 

Nathanael trying some archaeology at home. 

 

Nathanael's Ships and Sailors Lapbook (6 years old)

Nathanael has been keen for a while to do a project on Ships and Sailors, so over the summer he has spent time working on it.  He has read various non-fiction and fiction books on the subject.



Lapbook front cover

 

Inside lapbook with flaps down. On the left are some mini books Nathanael made on Noah's Ark and the Titanic. On the right is a poem he wrote, inspired by J. M. W Turner's painting the Fighting Temeraire.

 

 

The Ship's Death

by Nathanael

 

Bang! Blistering cannons

Bite holes in ships

In Trafalgar's battle.

Brave Temeraire.

 

Now the saddest day of all

It's being led away

To its death today.

Poor fighting Temeraire.

 



Inside the lapbook a labelled drawing of a Galleon, some sentences about Viking Ships and drawings of the front covers of Christopher Columbus and Treasure Island books he read.



 

 

Ship art work with question and answer flaps.

 

 Together we read a lot of books on this subject, so I have included the links to the books I got from Amazon, in case it is useful to anyone.

 

Usborne book of Ships

Christopher Columbus

Titanic Sticker Book

Nelson

Pirates

Katie and the British Artists (for information on Turner's paintings)

 

Christian Home Educators' Holiday - Cefn Lea, Mid Wales

We have just returned from a lovely week in the beautiful hills of mid Wales, on a Home Educators' family holiday. This has been our fifth year and it is such a blessing to meet many other Christian families with whom we have much in common.  

 

A walk through the woods

 

 

 

Hymns on the hill with friends

 

Cloud (or mist?) hanging below the hills

 

 

 

Waiting for the water slide

 

 

 

Biscuit icing

 

Air hockey

 

On the tree...

...and on the same tree last year!

 

A treat on the way home!

 

A wonderful week! Now home to a massive pile of washing and a brand new school year ahead!

 

 

I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help.

My help cometh from the Lord, which made heaven and earth. Psalm 121:1-2