Ireland

A project all about Eire and Northern Ireland. My DNA results show I am 58% Irish, so the children will have significant Irish blood in their veins. I thought this would be an enjoyable cross curricular project to take us up to Spring.

Sunbaby had a great time choosing her work from an array of Irish-themed activities.

The Boy started with a timeline of Irish history. It's a poignantly sad history, full of English suppression, and important to have a basic understanding of, if we are to strive for peace. He will use the timeline for the focus of his work.

Scissor skills

Pin the hat on (or really far away from) the leprechaun

A map of Ireland and its rivers and mountains, in the popular medium of sponge cake

Counting

A mobile

Irish flag colours. The Boy later studied the history of the flag and its colours.

St. Patrick's Day mystery solving

With perfect timing we spotted a rainbow

A leprechaun trap, built and painted by The Boy

A leprechaun village

Making leprechauns out of clay

Sunbaby's amazing leprechaun

Monkey Girl's leprechaun

Finding our past

Working on her letters

Scissor skills

Colouring an Irish band while we listen to Irish music

Building a Celtic roundhouse

Making a St. Patrick's Day drink

Reading Celtic Myths and Legends

Threading a harp

Making Blarney Castle

Asking big sister to kiss the Blarney Stone!

Letters

Studying the history of the Celts and the origins of Ogham

Celtic spirals

Celtic crosses

The 1916 Easter Rising - the people, the origins, the fall out.

Celtic jewellery

Celtic warrior face paint

Working hard on his Easter Rising work

Some really great work by my aweome dyslexic thinker!

Sunbaby looked at puffins on the Irish coast

The Boy made Celtic oatcakes

Animals in Ireland 

Matching footprints

Peg hedgehog

Making her own mini book about Ireland

Northern Ireland

We spent a while looking at the flags, their origins and histories, and their links to the Union flag or otherwise.

Still working her little socks off

Belfast

Making a misty Blarney Castle

Comprehension work

Birds in Ireland

The Boy also worked on the rivers and mountains of Ireland, did some St Patrick's Day code breaking, a Gold Mystery, studied a poem by WB Yeats and did some Irish-themed maths.

Our resources

Coming soon:

Spring for Sunbaby

Engineering and Technology for The Boy

Plus:

some birthdays, some science experiments, some field trips and some awesome university news!