Life Lately

Time has been flying by! Back in November we celebrated Thanksgiving day. The children mapped out the journey made by the Pilgrim Fathers.

 

 



Following that they modelled turkeys out of apples and sweets and made thankful placemats for our special Thanksgiving meal.

 

 

 

The children sewed their own Jesse Trees to go with our December daily Bible readings, which will lead us up to Christmas Day.

 

 

Each day after we have read the Bible verses, the children make their own ornament to hang on their tree with drawings to help them remember the story.

 

 

The days are getting colder and much to the children's delight, we had some heavy hail showers last week.



Tabitha, enjoying the hail storm, was far too excited to remember to put her coat on!!!

Another bonus of the cold days are Christmas hot chocolates after winter walks!

 

 We have enjoyed some special family days out, our favourite being to Ordsall Hall.

 



"For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light."

 In History the children have moved back onto Ancient History after their WW1 project and are now studying the Romans. 

 

Our very own Roman road.

We had a lovely Christmas home education group meeting where everyone made mini gingerbread houses, lavishly decorated with sweets!

 

 

 We did a family performance of a Christmas song. 

 

We are planning one last week of school work and some cleaning and decluttering, before Elisabeth and Abigail's birthdays and our Christmas break. 

Life Lately

Autumn has been very mild so far this year; we have enjoyed had some beautiful walks in the country. At home, we have come to the end of our weather and seasons project. The children have learned, through hands on activities, about day and night and shadows

 

and have drawn what they have found out in their books.

 

 

They have written some sentences on sun and rain

 

 

and have discovered some of the different cloud formations.

 

 

We did two mini unit studies on the books A New Coat for Anna (seasons link) and the Little Red Hen (windmill link).

 

The children did some paper weaving

 

and inspired by a visit to the Stockport Hat Works, they designed A New Hat for Anna.

 



 

 Little Red Hen activities included bread baking, making windmills and acting out the play with masks.

 

The Vikings came to Stockport Market last weekend, so we went to visit them!

 



 

Nathanael had the opportunity to fire a cross bow at a Knight.
 

We also had a lovely morning out in Manchester this week to see the Halle Orchestra's interactive children's performance of the book Giraffes Can't Dance.

 

 

We celebrated Reformation Sunday at church, with the children performing a short drama and song.

 

 

In History, the children have been finding out about the Reformation, John Wycliffe, Martin Luther, Anne Askew and Thomas Cranmer.  

 

We are moving on to a two week study on ancient and modern China and finding out about Hudson Taylor and Gladys Aylward, missionaries to China.



Thank You God

Today Americans are celebrating Thanksgiving Day. Whilst it isn't generally celebrated in the UK, it is always important for us to take time to give thanks and teach our children to be grateful for all that we have. One of our favourite memory verse is 1 Thessalonians 5:16-18 "Rejoice evermore. Pray without ceasing. In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you."

 

Every year on Thanksgiving day we make Thank you God books.
 

The children have to think of the same number of things to be thankful for as their age.

 

Nathanael's 6 things

 

 

1. Food
2. Home
3. The Bible
4. Toys
5. My family
6. Books

Tabitha's 5 things

 

 

1. Paper and crayons
2. Cats
3. My family
4. Sweets
5. Socks

Abigail's 3 things

 

 

1. Our house
2. Our family
3. Our garden

Miriam's 2 things

 

1. Daddy
2. Mummy 

So here are my 29 things that I am thankful for...

1. The love of God, his mercy, grace and forgiveness.
2. Jesus my Saviour.
3. My beloved husband.

 

4.  My 5 children. I am very blessed.

 

 

5.  My mum.

 

6.    The freedom we have in England...to have a Bible in our own language,

7.    to home educate our children,

8.    to preach the gospel in the streets,

9.    hold church services in public and

10.  not suffer persecution for our faith.

11.  Hymns and hearing my children sing them.

12.  Listening to my children laugh.

13.  Hearing my children pray.

14.  Church family.

14.  Extended family.

16.  Our car.

 

 

17.  More than enough food to eat.

18.  Baking cakes.

19.  Lattes and chocolate treats.
 

 

20.  Our washing machine and tumble drier.

21.  Buying second hand! Charity shops and car boot sales.

22.  Our health.

23.  Abigail's heart. We found out this year that Abigail has got a congenital heart defect called    Double Aortic Arch and will probably require surgery in the near future. We are very thankful that it was not as serious as it could have been.

 

 

24.  The NHS.

25.  The beauty of God's creation and being able to share it together as a family.

 

 

26.  Parks.

27.  Family Days.

28.  Reading stories to the children.

29.  Sleep.

 

"Rejoice evermore. Pray without ceasing.

In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in

Christ Jesus concerning you."

1 Thessalonians 5:16-18