Our World War Two project has been fascinating.  It's our first real look at an era that we have had direct contact with.  My Mum lent us my Grandparents' medals and photos, stopwatch, a compass my Grandfather used in the Desert as a Desert Rat, coins from the 1940s, and other fascinating memorabilia from the War.  

I also purchased some replica 1940s documents which tied in well with our work on propaganda, rationing and evacuees.

We made our own ration books :)

Evacuees.  Ballet Girl was quite upset by the whole concept.

Copying photos and documents from their great-granpdparents.

WW2 History work online

Our look at propaganda and the government campaigns

A superb visit to Bletchley Park where the Enigma code was broken.  It is believed that the work done here cut the War short by two years.  Incredible.

Alan Turing's Bombe which broke the code for the German's Enigma code-making machine.

3D glasses for a mini-movie about Bletchley Park

A bit of Geometry :)

The Edwardians and The Great War

This was a small introduction to The World Wars.  The concept of how WWI actually started is quite difficult, so I simplified it as much as possible.  We painted flags of the countries in the War and the girls acted out the role of each country and how it became involved.

Our sources

Ballet Girl and Monkey Girl made lap-books about the Great War

 The girls made a lovely Edwardian paper shop :)

The Suffragettes!

St. George's Day. :)

Our Easter Holidays was 3 weeks long!  We caught up with friends and cousins and I had a new Baby Nephew born on Easter Sunday.  Here's a little of what we got up to:

We started our Easter holidays early as the sun is shining an Spring is here and it's just too wonderful to do anything other than play outside!  Here's a little of what we've been up to this past week:

The Boy baked with his Birthday cooking set.  He's a whole THREE years old now and I LOVE him :)

This is him at his Mini Chefs class

Nature Detective work outside in the sun

Monkey Girl wanted to learn how to make egg mayonnaise :)

Panda Girl and her FAVOURITE messy play.

Ballet Girl has written some lovely stories on the lap top.

My asthmatic Boy got himself a chest infection and has had a tough time this week.

High on his inhalers he made a lovely bird feeder with peanut butter and cheese :)

Forever reading

I'm on the rota for craft at the Boy's Playgroup.  This week we made rockets :)