Learning about Dinosaurs

Jude has been learning about dinosaurs and loved all the craft and colouring in. He is slowly picking up their names, oh and the girls have obviously got into it too, so it has been good for them to brush up on their knowledge too.
Stegosaurus with cornflakes for plates.


Painting and stencilling.

The Second Punic War

We had read the Punic wars a few months ago, but we decided to read them again since we are studying Rome. It was great to hear while I was reading that the children still remembered the details of the story and got so excited to hear it again(it is an incredibly amazing story). They rushed over to the table to draw pictures of the story.
Hannibal the Carthaginian decided to approach Italy from Spain, but this meant he had to cross the Alps, which everyone thought was impossible. He had many soldiers and elephants, but he achieved it, and managed to get through to Italy.
I love how Niamh drew the mountains so steep. In the story it speaks about how the mountains were high and one wrong foot meant being dashed to your death, and certainly Niamh tried to capture this danger.

Our Roman notebook started

Mom thought that there would be too much information on Rome to be put into a lapbook, so we are trying a notebook. This can be as long as we want, but can still contain a lot of minibooks. This is our first page, and has two flaps.

Making some Roman food

The Romans ate honey bread as a treat after their main meal. It was easy enough for us to prepare all by ourselves.
First cut bread into slices.
Then dip the slices in milk, and then fry them until slightly brown.
Pour honey on them when they are still warm.
And here we have a Roman dessert.
Yummy!

The sunflower competition!

It has been a while since we have given an update on the sunflowers, and boy have they grown, Jude is clearly the biggest and has now gone higher than the fence. It is amazing how rapidly these sunflowers grow, a remarkable example of God's amazing creation that from such a small seed grows such a big strong plant.

Roman theme, creating a Roman style mosaic

Our first craft was creating a mosaic. Hopefully we get to try making a proper mosaic too with glass or clay tesserae.

Some dog sketches

Impromptu sketch of a beagle.

Supposed to be a Golden Retriever, but mom thinks it looks more like an Irish Wolf Hound.

Starting Latin

We have started our theme on Rome, and what could be better than starting to learn Latin too since it all ties together so nicely. We have just got this starter set for children from age 7(but Niamh is joining in too of course). It is audio, and books, aswell as a set of reading books in Latin. It is set in 2nd Century Roman England and includes a lot about the culture and history of the day, so we get to learn more than just the language. Since Latin is the basis for English and most European languages I though this may give the children a better insight into their own and other languages(as well as mom too). I am thankful to a lady at our church who lectures the classics, and teaches Latin since she pointed us in the direction of this resource.

Books we have read

We did get lots of dog books at the library, but mom bought these ones for us to keep.
This is a huge book with so much in it.
This is a true story that I am reading at the moment, it is about one of my favourite dogs, labradors.

Learning about Dogs

Spending so much time with the dogs on holiday in Spain got us really interested in doing a study on dogs. Eden - It has been one of my favourite studies and I would like to carry on learning about dogs always.

For this theme we have tried a new way of displaying what we learnt, it is called a lapbook because all the information is stored in a folder which is small enough to fit on your lap. (We still need to decorate the outside of the book.)
Once it opens you can see all the many mini books inside.
And they all open up to show more information.
We loved learning about all the different groups of dogs and all the breeds in those groups. It is so much fun spotting all the breeds we have learnt when we are driving or at the park.
It was fun to learn about all the wonderful jobs dogs do.
This is about a guide dog, we had already learnt about them when mom read us the book "Follow my leader" which is about a boy who lost his sight when his friend threw a firecracker at him, and how he got a guide dog to help him get around. You can see that this mini book has a few tabs so that you can turn to lots of different jobs that dogs do.