Tudor Money and a Writing Certificate

Tudor house designs by Monkey Girl and Panda Girl

The Boy made some Edward VI coins

...and then he helped make a Tudor money bag :)

Panda Girl made her own coins and money bag which she loved.

At nursery, The Boy 'wrote' a cute poem using a poem template and his own words... and won himself this :)

Cooking dinner

Shakespeare, Tudor Ruffs and our Favourite Great Aunty from Oz!

Shakespeare: the girls learnt a little about the play-write in crosswords, a study of sentences in the English language we now all use, his birthplace, date of birth and death etc.  This year we studied 'The Tempest' and so it tied in nicely with our Tudor study

Having mastered his numbers 1-10, The Boy is now progressing his letter work.

Our Tudor display so far.

Great Aunty Tishy visited from Australia - one must look out for such visits with binoculars.

Stories with Great Aunty Tishy  :)

The two eldest answered these questions today after working on the Reformation and the dissolution of the monasteries.

Tudor ruff

Tudor rose

Library books

The Boy and King Henry VIII

Having moved to our new house last autumn, our garden is continuing to surprise us with its loveliness, this summer

An evening walk before bedtime.

My Favourite Subject

The Tudors!  I might be slightly happy about this unit as I'm a little crazy about this era.  The children were over the moon when I changed the display board to a Tudor one - I think my history enthusiasm may have rubbed off :)

We've been working steadily through a great book 'Our Island Story' by H.E.Marshall and are now a couple of chapters away from The Wars of the Roses. The book aside, unit-wise we have now covered:

The Romans

The Anglo-Saxons

The Danes (Vikings)

The Normans

 Medieval

The Tudors

The Stuarts

The Georgians

The Victorians

Edwardian 

WW1

WW2

Our work is on our timeline and for me it is highly satisfactory for the children to have learnt their history in context, with how each era related to the next.  Future units will focus on the Stone, Bronze and Iron Ages but for now, studying and absorbing 2000 years worth of British history has been a huge and exciting venture for us all.

Here's some of our Tudor work so far:

The Boy got us started with this brilliant copy of Henry VII's portrait :)

My little history buff, Ballet Girl, has raced through her work, answering questions she has gained through her own study.  This makes it all so worth while!

 Of course one must write with a feather quill at all times during Tudor lessons :)

We spent some time discussing the Renaissance and the brilliance of Leonardo da Vinci.

Painting the Mona Lisa

A Mona Lisa puzzle for my kinaesthetic Panda Girl

My mini Henry VIII.

Colouring Henry VIII's warships and making Tudor portraits.

The Boy also fitted in some of his beloved cooking

60th Anniversary of Queen Elizabeth II's Coronation

The Coronation

The two youngest did a mini project on the 60th Anniversary of Queen Elizabeth II's Coronation.

The Boy did some cute work with the poem:

Pussycat, pussycat where have you been?

I've been to London to visit the Queen.

Pussycat, pussycat what did you there?

I frightened a little mouse under her chair.

 He role-played with some cuddlies...

And then made a paper mouse.

Panda Girl did some science work with him.  These two are good friends :)

I Love These Kiddies!

Bungee jumping teddies and a snapping crocodile below...