Desert Craft - Desert Scene

This was quite an interesting craft, because the cactus was created by using Ciara's welly - the kids enjoyed that thoroughly.

Exodus Craft - The Golden lampstand

Niamh has finished her Menorah!

High Priest sketch by Eden

For as long as I can remember Eden loves to draw things that have a lot of detail, so grabbed the opportunity to sketch a picture of a High Priest in full outfit with breastplate, ephod, robe, embroidered coat, turban and girdle.

Learning about the Desert - cactus

Jude's new theme is the desert, and he made and decorated this cactus with spikes and blossoms today. Eden couldn't resist drawing a little birdie nesting in the cactus.

5 children and it

We have had this audio cd for a while and the children listened to it a few times, but after getting it out again a couple of weeks ago, they have listened to it over ten times I am sure. What is great is that Jude is starting to really enjoy the stories now too.
And then we managed to get the DVD out of it too. They changed the story quite a lot for the movie, but the children enjoyed it nonetheless.

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.