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Tuesday, 29 November 2011

The Spanish Armada

We spent a happy morning making Tudor sweets :)

In search of Queen Katherine of Aaragon's Cross in Ampthill Park, erected on the site where Ampthill Castle once stood: the home of the Queen while Henry sought his annulment.

Wednesday, 23 November 2011

I took TWO whole years out from my Blog as things got tough during my 4th pregnancy and subsequent birth of my son. We still ploughed on with our homeschooling, and I have uploaded a selection of thematic unit displays, below. Life is a little easier now so hopefully the blog will continue at full speed, God willing :)

Spring, Bats, The English Coast, Space and Autumn Thematic Units

Tuesday, 22 November 2011

'Ch', Italy, Japan, Rainforest and Spring Thematic Units

Saturday, 5 September 2009

We are enjoying our text books suggested by the Mater Amabilis curriculum. The girls have been working on:

Music, Picture Study, Reading and Writing, Maths, Earth Geography, Family Geography, Mapwork, Art.

As of the new term all 3 are doing weekly Gymnastics and Trampolining lessons and the 2 eldest also do Ballet and Piano lessons.

My 2 eldest girls, Ballet Girl and Monkey Girl (now 7 and 6) have rapidly progressed with their reading this year. They are both so excited by the fact and have read 'The Gruffalo' so many times to eachother, to themselves or to friends that Panda Girl (3) knows most of it by heart now :)

I'm back! I return to my blog after the birth of my beautiful darling son and a rather difficult year including 15 weeks on crutches, my husband's 5 month redundancy and the tragic death of his dear brother.

Monday, 8 December 2008

Playgroup Christmas Party. Ballet Girl and Panda Girl take to the dance floor early.

Monkey Girl loves craft. She spent the rest of the day covered in glitter.

" Panda Girl would you like Ballet Girl to go with you?"

"I do it on my own"

Delighted Monkey Girl:)

Ballet Girl's turn :)

Smiles!

3 Happy Ladies :)

Starting off the day with a bit of craft. Panda Girl's snowman is top left :) And some snowflakes by the 2 eldest.

I printed out and large collection of Christmas worksheets and activities for the girls to do. They have sped through them. Panda Girl is learning the idea of mazes and her concentration is amazing!

Wrapping 'Gold, Frankincense and Myrrh' for the Baby Jesus.

All done.

Ballet Girl and Monkey Girl made some lovely jig-saws and Panda Girl placed the shapes on their matching space.

Dominique pairing up halved Christmas cards.

Playgroup Christmas Service.

Some gluing work. Panda Girl did so well!

Parties...

...and more parties.

The Arctic and Antarctic window display

Some of the girls' worksheets they completed for their Polar project. We had out first look at similes and acrostics and a introduced the idea of an alliteration.

They also had fun with snowy watercolours, mazes, listening work, questions, a venn diagram, vocabulary and word searches, a Favourite Arctic Animal survey which they asked all their friends and a good look at Polar Bears (in captivity, their paws, food, fur, cubs etc)

We spent a whole morning learning about Emperor penguins in the Antarctic. They then dictated their own story to me about the life of a Mummy, Daddy and chick Emperor and we had immense fun using bean bags as penguin eggs and trying to pass the egg from 'Mummy's' feet to 'Daddy's' feet without dropping it on the ice. The girls spent the rest of the morning role playing with their cuddly penguins (I confess to having a huge and pointless collection of cuddly penguins. :)

Making Polar bears...

Polar bears...

I glued magnets to the back of these pictures and using the radiator as our world, the girls had to decide which Polar animal belonged in the Arctic and which belonged in the Antarctic.