The Victorians

After our Victorian Day out, the children were so enthusiastic about studying the Victorians and so far we are all enjoying it thoroughly.
We watched this DVD about Queen Victoria in her early years.
Charles Dickens was a Victorian author and many of his books give a great insight into what it was like living in the Victorian times. Eden is reading this Classic Starts version.
And I found this easier one to read to Jude and Ciara.
We also have the story on audio cd for the car. It's a great story which we have all enjoyed so far.

The children all love this humorous history series of books, this was a good one for showing the conditions inside a Victorian factory.


This is also another history series which the girls love reading, they have enjoyed reading these two about the Victorians.

What is the night? by Eden Macneil

We have been learning similes and metaphors in poetry, Eden chose to do a poem on the night using metaphors:

What is the night?
The night is a black monster creeping up on you,
it is a black page with yellow spots on it,
the night is a shadow that covers the sky,
it is an ink spot that is spreading on a piece of paper,
the night is a bar of melted dark chocolate with no sugar.
Eden Macneil

Drawings, spring, music and narration

Ciara is getting good at drawing circles now, and shows a lot of interest like Eden did with drawing - always asking for pencils and paper to draw. So this week I showed her how to make faces, and she turned her circles into faces.
This is our second recipe we try for coloured popcorn, and it worked out a lot better than the first, we got the recipe here: Coloured popcorn
Niamh mixing the popcorn into the pink mixture - this would be great for parties.
But we used it on our spring trees for blossoms.
Niamh's tree with blossoms falling down.
Ciara's tree, she wouldn't let me help her at all - such and independant little girl.
The girls music certificates came through a few weeks ago, and Eden heard the good news that she will be doing grade 4 in two months, she is flying through the grades and a lot of work needs to be done in these two months.

This weeks narration was from the miracle of Jesus feeding the 5000. Eden and Niamh did the story from the perspective of the boy whose fish and bread Jesus used for the miracle, it has been fun for them to write these stories from different perspectives.