Three Times National Champion

My Boy did it again! Having won Individual Piping Gold (a Royal Naval Tradition) at the District and Area competitions, The Boy made it to HMS Raleigh in Plymouth for the Sea Cadet Corps National Drill and Piping Competition, where he became the UK National Piping Champion for the third year in a row. He ages out before next year's competition, so he will remain undefeated. He is the first Royal Marines Cadet to ever win over the sea cadets, so to win for a third time is very special, and we are very proud of him. 

 

Snowdonia

The Boy travelled to Snowdonia with his cadet unit. They summited five peaks over two days, including Yr Wyddfa (Mt. Snowdon). Great times!

 

A Random Selection of Fun!

Sometimes, Sunbaby will ask to study a project or theme that would be too small to develop into anything beyond a day or two of study, or that we have already done recently, etc. I wanted to honour her interests, and I also thought it might be fun to do a few one- or two-day projects.

So I decided to do a random selection of fun!

Here they are:

Winnie the Pooh

Happy!

Fantasy Worlds - Sunbaby loved this in particular, so we extended it. Dragons...

...unicorns...

Sunbaby's auditory skills are extremely strong. Her visual is less so, and this impacts her spelling. The 'tion' situation is still eluding her, so I set up a shooting range to help her remember the letters. So much hilarity!

...creating a portal into another world...

...mermaids...

...sea creatures for the mermaids...

...fairytales...

...and lastly in the Fantasy Worlds theme... gemstones...

Times tables with dragons and gems

Making a lab-grown crystal geode

Science: Non-Newtonian fluids and osmosis

Finishing workbooks

Looking at stalagmites and stalacites

Giraffes

The African Savanna

We learnt about Lake Victoria and its borders with Uganda, Tanzania, and Kenya, the Maasai people, and the Serengeti and its animals.

Dinosaurs

The geode is forming!

These two :)

Smugglers!

We had a super fun morning creeping around without Papa or The Boy spotting us. We crept out, bought lemonade and chocolate, and hid them in our Smugglers' Cove. 

We learnt about import taxes, beginning with the malcontent brought about by King John and the need for the Magna Carta; the development of world exploration and trade; King Charles II's import taxes, the growth of smuggling from that, and the law enforcement changes as a result, including the development of the Coastguard; the import tax changes following globalisation and the changes in smuggling. 

We looked at Cornwall and its coves and talked about the mayor of Penzance being arrested for smuggling in the 1700s. Sunbaby then spent the rest of the day developing a character and story setting for a smuggler's tale. She did so well.

Smuggling and pirate games to finish

Anatomy: something we have covered a fair amount, but Sunbaby asked for it again.

Gorgeous produce courtesy of Sunbaby's hard work :)

An afternoon in the sun

Elderflower cordial - our annual tradition

So grateful for all that I have. 

Thank you, God :)