Cat sketches by Eden

Eden has been experimenting with a few different ways of drawing cats over the past week.

Some more dinosaurs

Jude painted this lovely bright Ankylosaurus.
Some bubble wrap printing -Ankylosaurus.

Roman shields - a work in progress

We knew we would get good use out of those boxes.
The corrugated cardboard needs to be wettened first, so that they can bend.....

into the shape of a Roman shield. When they are dry they will get decorated! (But that will have to wait until we get back from our holiday).

Roman conquest

We have really enjoyed hearing about the Roman wars, they are so exciting.
We got to make another colourful book, it was so much fun.


By the end of these wars Rome had conquered all of Italy and most of the Mediterranean countries, greedy aren't they.

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.