We've been chugging along this term, carrying on with all our usual lessons and groups.
One of the different activities that we've done this term was making bird feeders and taking part in the RSPB big garden birdwatch with our Home Ed group. The children were awarded Pawprint badges if they completed a certain number of related activities (the number varied depending on their age). We haven't used Pawprint badges so far and I don't plan to start using them at home but I'm happy to get a few. As badges go, they are very nice.
We've been out for a couple of nature walks with friends. We try and organise these once a month at different places. I'm also trying to get a group of Christian home educators together for a walk once a month but that's been sporadic so far.
We've also started lists of flowers and birds that we spot out and about. It's a very simple calendar of firsts.
Herby has finished knitting her owl. The next job is sewing it up but she'd rather knit than sew so I think I'll have to help a bit more with the finishing touches.
We've visited the British schools museum where we experienced a Victorian lesson. We had our hands checked for cleanliness and then practised reading, writing and 'rithmetic.
We've also been to the Cromwell museum in Huntingdon recently. This tied in well with our history lessons as we've been reading about the death of Charles I and the Commonwealth. I've just started listening to Children of the New Forest, set in the same time period. I expect we'll read this when we get round to the civil war in our next cycle through British history.
We read a story based on Shakespeare's As You Like It from Charles and Mary Lamb's book Tales from Shakespeare. Herby and Alby really enjoyed it and they coloured in some characters that we could move around as the story progressed. I'm planning to read A Winter's Tale next and we'll try a similar approach reading it over a couple of weeks and colouring characters.
Herby and Alby have also particularly enjoyed learning After the Party by William Wise and Allouette, Gentille Allouette. I haven't quite decided what poem or French song to learn next.
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