This week end at the garden centre we met this adorable little reindeer. His name is Garfield and he is two years old. He was there with one of Santa's Elves and was very popular with Hannah!!
So popular in fact that yesterday Hannah turned herself into a reindeer!!
At our meeting today we learned about Thanksgiving. The children were read the story of thanksgiving and talked about the hardships faced by the pilgrims arriving in America for the first time. Then we did some crafts, a thankful tree and a thanksgiving wreath, and Hannah did some colouring.
This is the wreath she made, she thought she might not fit the writing in the space so i wrote the message in, but the sentiment was all hers.
A very colourful pilgrim couple.
Her tree of thankfulness showing she is thankful for mama, dada, grammy and home :-)
Sorry for the lack of updates lately, Hannah's cough and cold has been hanging on and on so we've been quite quiet and restful for a few days. Yesterday however, she felt much better and so decided to make a cardboard box tv and treat Dean and i to a showing of 'Feather Dusters'. I have no idea where she got that idea from but she was really cute and funny as a tv presenter!
.....have been quiet here as Hannah has had a horrible cough and cold, but she still managed to make these collages from some of my old Country Living magazines.
and today, she was desperate for some fresh air so went out for a little while to fly her new kite (once the rain finally stopped).
Afterwards we warmed up with a hot chocolate and a couple of rides in the cafe nearby.
This week Hannah decided that she had prefered having more structure to her learning, and asked if we could start doing table 'time again'. I heaved a sigh of relief (as i find it much easier to keep track of what we're doing this way) and got her workbooks back out. Well, the break seems to have done the trick as she sailed through to the end of her Phonics and Reading Book 1 and started book 2 . This is quite an achievement as she had been find that quite difficult in the summer. She also wanted to start a new journal where she can do a picture and write a little bit about it by herself. She only managed a sentence for each picture, but she is spelling things well and her writing is legible so we are both pleased about that.
Starting Horizon's Phonics and Reading Book 2
At our home education group we have been learning about Victorians and Pioneers this term, so last week we started a 'Time Line' for all the people we had learned about. This week Hannah and i finished hers off and talked about time and dates in history.
We also found out about 'A Christmas Carol' as Charles Dickens is one of our famous Victorians and made plans to see the play performed next month. Hannah coloured in this picture from the story as part of her art work,
and also drew this pencil drawing of a cat.
Finally this week we sorted through all of Hannah's things in her room, and rearranged her furniture to make the room warmer and cosier. She certainly seems to be sleeping well now :-)
Today at our home education group we made posters for remembrance day. Hannah drew a big cross, some grave stones, a poppy, a soldier and a medal on hers. We talked about the reason for remembrance day and about the 2nd world war first and then the children made their posters to show what Remembrance day meant to them. The soldier in Hannah's picture is her great granddad who died during the war.
The second part of our meeting today was all about Isambard Brunel, as we are studying famous Victorians, and Hannah learned all about the things that he designed and built.
Afterwards we all went to play in the Park, and headed into the Park Cafe when it rained, where the Hannah's spent a happy time doing puzzles and drinking babychino's!
