Half Term Break

Half Term and a little bit beyond.

Helping Aunty Grace move house

Painting boxes - because we can :)

Making flapjacks

These two went to a Carnival Fun Day

Learning how to make salad dressing

Love!

At the cousins' watching sheep shearing.

A mud pie and wood-works area - just perfect! 

An outing to the willow huts

A Morning With Henri Matisse

One of my lovely friends is an artist.  She kindly spent the morning with mine and her kiddies teaching them all about Henri Matisse.

And they all made some amazing work in the style of Matisse!

Birthday!

Ballet Girl is another year older!  Happy Birthday my Darling!

Here is her Birthday Breakfast.

She woke up at 5am!  But I refuse to be alive until at least 7am so she had to wait for presents :)

My big Horrible Histories and Star Wars fan had some Star Wars Lego and a Yoda cake and Horrible History tickets at the theatre in July.  It's a hard life being loved!!

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Human Anatomy Thematic Unit

Our Human Anatomy Display

On our final day of our unit we talked about blood.  I mixed up a bowl of red food colouring and water and explained that actually blood under a microscope looks more like...

...this! The red skittles symbolised the red blood cells carrying nutrients and oxygen about the body; the white marshmallows symbolised white blood cells which are the body's soldiers and fight off infection; and the sesame seeds are the platelets which are the blood clotting parts of the blood.  

The kiddies completed their worksheets and lapbooks...

...we found a few more library books about the body...

...and experimented with art and parts of the body.  This one is Ballet Girl's.

Human Anatomy Lapbooks

The kiddies requested to work outside first thing this morning.  They made some great human anatomy lapbooks which I found here:

After lunch The Boy made a cute cut and stick picture of places in the world he would like to visit.

Panda Girl worked on her First Holy Communion preparation

Ballet Girl wrote a Nature Study story

And this little sun-seeker stayed outside.

Today also included Script Writing, Times Tables and Activity Books.

Monday afternoons are for trampolining lessons at the leisure centre and sunny days mean late bedtimes and cartwheel practise in the garden :)

Outside!

This weekend the weather was glorious.  Here's how we spent Friday, Saturday and Sunday:

 Tadpoling with fellow home-schooling friends

Reading in the garden at bedtime

Papa spent the weekend on a Royal Marine Cadet Instructor training course.  We missed him lots.