The Sunflowers have bloomed

And beautiful and happy they are. Jude is the winner, it is just a pity they are pointing away from us :(. Isn't it wonderful to see what they grew from, God's creation is wonderful.

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.