Extra Stuff

Also this month...

The girls participated in their Cadet Unit's 50th Anniversary Parade and this amazing boy, mascot for the Royal Marines Detachment, joined in. I love him :)

These three achieved their second Blue Peter badges!

Smashing Christmas craft by The Boy

Christmas fun with the Cadets!

Panda Girl spent a night at The Natural History Museum -as you do!

My beautiful kiddies had a great day at The English National Ballet...

...commencing with a workshop with a teacher from the English National Ballet...

...and culminating in a performance of the ENB's Nutcracker. Awesome day.

I don't know...

Weekly library trip

A big family bonfire

Hanging out with this snuggly pig

Panda Girl won an English Heritage Competition - because she's super! She won herself a wax seal stamp which she designed herself.

Homemade mince pies

Working on our workbooks

Kerplunk!

Scandinavia Thematic Unit

We finished our Scandinavia unit last week. We studied it through art, geography, history, geology, bushcraft, nature-study and reading.

We finished our study of Norway with some Norwegian inspired Christmas decoations.

We learnt a little about fjords

Norwegian animals

And we spent a whole morning learning about polar bears, including listening to polar bears snoring and feeding.

Finland is not on the Scandinavian peninsula so is not considered by some to be part of Scandinavia. However we included it in our studies and we started with Finnish pancakes.

Finland is the home of winter sports so we had fun with winter sports bingo.

And winter sport worksheets left over from our Helsinki Winter Olympics project.

Finland is also the home of the sauna. For its 5.4 million strong population, Finland has 3 million saunas. It also has interesting innovations to bring in the tourists, like heated streets to keep away the snow. The kiddies spent a while coming up with their own ideas to keep Finland warm!

Finnish Lapland is beautiful! We watched some stunning videos and made some fun posters.

Hilarious Norwegian Gnomes

Norway. Our third Scandinavian country. Its name derives from 'Nor-weg' which means 'North Men'.

We watched a fascinating documentary on the beautiful fjords of Norway. The children have Norwegian ancestry so this was particularly special. 

We made some ridiculous Norwegian gnomes because we home-school and we can do these things!

Like Sweden, Norway is also home to the brown bear.

Half of Norway is forest (The Boy loved this fact) and Lynx are predators of the North Norway forests.

The Boy noted this in his Scandinavian scrapbook and drew this amazing Lynx from a YouTube tutorial. Clever Boy!

Panda Girl's lynx is equally smashing.

And Monkey Girl put one of her many Deadly Sixty annuals to good use! I love it.