Remembrance Sunday

We had a rather busy weekend.

It began with Friday evening fireworks for Bonfire night for which my two eldest were car park marshals with the Sea Cadets and my two youngest were a willing audience.  

On Saturday morning all four litter picked with the Cadets from the night before, while Mummy hung out and ate cake with Aunty G. 

In the afternoon Ballet Girl spent six hours with the Cadets for drill practice and the other three went to a gymnastics party.

 On Sunday we were up at 6.45am for Mass, followed by two Remembrance Sunday Services involving my RMC Sergeant husband and Sea Cadet daughters. 

The Boy had his second party of the weekend but made it to the afternoon Remembrance Sunday parade to watch his Papa and big sisters showing their respect to the Fallen.

So... on Monday we had a rest day.  The children had a long lie in.

Ballet Girl face painted The Boy

This beautiful pattern was finally finished by Panda Girl, pattern queen.

She hung out with her cuddlies too.

Relaxing.

Helping Mummy make lunch.

Everyone had a haircut, courtesy of Mummy's special sharp scissors ;)

Painting with spices.  Because we can.

Painting with paints.  Because we can.

Here's my author.

Straw art.

Wonderful, tiny cousins.

Spices!

 Herbs and spices!  Following on from our Greek food day yesterday we learnt how The Ancient Greeks traded with spices and how they not only seasoned their food with home-grown herbs and spices but also imported aromatic ones from the Far East.

 The children began by smelling spices I had put in Petri dishes (thanks Emma!) using the original jars to identify them..

They then spent the ENTIRE morning bartering for spices.  It turned into a proper market with loud demands, refusals, agreements, price increases and much hilarity.  At one point Panda Girl appeared to have most of the spices in exchange for cinnamon which The Boy was almost hysterical about owning.

Ballet Girl gave each spice a Greek label.

Having spent WEEKS indoors with poorly children we finally ALL managed to be well at the same time.  In celebration we went for a chilly lunchtime walk - and nobody coughed!

In the afternoon The Boy finished his reading book.

Panda Girl spent an hour on her Mapwork.

Ballet Girl worked on her Science.

Monkey Girl got creative with seating arrangements to study geography.

The Boy did some lovely Spanish work.

And took his first look into the world of tens and units.

Panda Girl had three Tap and Modern classes this evening and Monkey Girl spent the rest of the day at a friend's house before zipping off to Sea Cadets with Ballet Girl and this wonderful Papa.

Please Slouch at the Table

We had a fun slouchy morning being Ancient Greeks eating Greek food at a low table.  I guess the word is 'recline' but the kiddies were very pleased when I told them to slouch, rather than not slouch.

We tried different Greek food and had a great chat about it all from our slouchy positions.

The Boy wasn't massively impressed with any of the food, especially the cod roe dip.  He mostly ate grapes.

Our map of Ancient Greece

This afternoon the children worked on Faith Work, Maths, English and Nature Study and we finished the day off with Modern Dancing and Tap Dancing for two kiddies and Gym for all four.