London craft - Tower Bridge finished

Jude really enjoying decorating this craft. The girls also remember going on the boat with Grandad under the bridge - their boat was not big enough for the bridge to be lifted.

And the bridge opens as the boats come through!

Pandora's Box - Niamh's narration

Niamh chose to do Pandora's Box for her narration. She wrote all of this on her own, I made her fix the spelling mistakes and rewrite it neatly. (She still needs to do the conclusion of the story on the next page).

Genesis craft

I have decided to give the girls a craft to do for each section of their lapbook to make things more fun. Nana had given them a beautiful bible craft book a while ago, and I am so pleased they are going to be able to make some of the crafts out of it now.
This is a stew pot from the story of Jacob and Esau.
Eden is making a collage out of things that would go in a stew, like beans and lentils. Watch this space for the finished collage. (And this has also inspired Eden to want to make a stew herself).

London craft - The Tower Bridge

Jude sponging the river Thames.
I drew the Tower Bridge for Jude to decorate, and tried to make it as accurate as possible. He was so pleased that it looked so real.

Maths

It has been a bit frustrating waiting for Eden's next Maths curriculum level which has taken a lot longer to arrive(from within the UK) than it did on the previous occasion, and every time the postman knocks, she says "Do you think he is bringing my Maths Gamma" (at least she is eager). So she has been keeping busy with some logic exercises every day, and she has thoroughly enjoyed them too. This book is just up mum's street as it has all the types of logic puzzles in that I loved as a child, things like complete the pattern, or copy the(detailed)pattern. Word games like, cocker spaniel is to dog like......., and lots of visual puzzles.

Jude finishes his London Bus

he called it Judees bus and gave it the number 4.

Narration

We read some traditional tales this week, and I asked Eden to write a narration back of a story. She chose to do "The Frog prince". The last time we tried narration, she did not enjoy it, but this time she really got into it. She rushed the first draft, although she wrote a lot so she made some silly spelling mistakes and grammar mistakes, so I asked her to proofread completely by herself and fix all the mistakes. She then wrote it out neatly. I was quite pleased to see that out of her own, she had only ended up making two spelling mistakes in the entire story, and had fixed all grammar.