We had a busy week last week finishing off our WW2 work.  We also did some painting...

 ...messy play (this was potato peelings and sand)...

 ...outdoor play...

...cooking...

...workbooks...

...reading...

...Panda Girl did some life-cycle work...

...we had a pic-nic...

...English...

...passive verbs and active verbs...

...investigated Mummy's stone collection...

....played in the rain...

...sit down study...

...The Boy made a bicarb and vinegar volcano...

...sand play...

...and we also managed two parties :)

An Introduction to World War II

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: