Mozart

Mike won an amazon voucher so we were able to buy some new books and cd's. This is one cd the children have been begging for, for a long time, and we have not been disappointed. Three children voyage with Mozart's son into the past and watch his life as a young boy growing up. (What was really funny is that I left them in the car while quickly popping into the shops, they carried on listening to this and actually turned up the volume even higher while I was in the shops they love it so much, it made me think how lovely it is that they have such an appreciation for this music - when I got back in the car, Eden said "All of his music is so brilliant and beautiful").

We were all astounded to hear this symphony below, it was his first complete symphony which he wrote at the age of 8.

Exodus Craft - The Golden lampstand + Ciara painting

The girls have started making a golden lampstand from gold beads and pasta shapes.
In the holy place there was no window or place to let in the light. It was lit from a glorious golden lampstand, which stood directly opposite the table on the south side in the Holy Place. Made from one piece of solid beaten gold it weighed about 43 kg.



Ciara enjoyed painting with these non messy paintbrushes that she got for her birthday, she wanted to try out each and every colour.

Half term and lots of crafts

We don't always follow the schools holidays, but it is officially their half term break now, and since it was Eden's camp, and Niamh has also been invited to play this week, I decided it would be a good time for mum to have a nice break too :D. So we are using this free time to just make and play. The girls have been given so many craft sets for their birthdays that I thought it would be a good time to use them now.
Eden got stuck into making a fairy mobile for their bedroom.
Three of the five fairies made so far.
Niamh and Jude got to enjoy some plasticine. They normally mold with playdough, but this is a bit more rigid and easier to use many colours without mixing them up.

Some nice designs.
Jude made his name.
A crazy monster.
And they all had a lot of fun building this kaleidoscope.

Exodus

I have decided that since the Bible lapbook and study is going to take too long, we will carry it on alongside another theme. After all 39 books of the Old Testament is going to take some time to study. We are ALL very excited about making a Tabernacle for the Exodus craft, I have always wanted to see exactly how it looked, and the girls and Jude will learn so much about it once they have actually built it.

The last of the London crafts

Jude really likes colouring in, and has done quite a lot of colouring in of sights for the London them. This is St Paul's Cathedral, he was really meticulous about the symmetry with this one.

The London post box finished.

School work and Jude

Jude is living in a world of numbers and letters at the moment, and I can see he is thinking about how to write them and use them throughout the day as he talks about it a lot.
He has learnt to go quite high with numbers now, and counted to 100 yesterday(with the help of a 100 chart). The dot to dot he is doing above has helped quite a lot with counting.
Eden often sets her younger siblings schoolwork to do. Here she drew Jude a picture of a clown for him to colour in. Yesterday she wrote a story with no punctuation in for Niamh to correct and add capital letters, full stops, commas and quotation marks.

Healthy stew collage

The girls were really consumed with doing this craft, and so enjoyed putting all the beans in place. This is the craft for the Jacob and Esau's story.
Niamh's craft.
Eden's craft.