Our Lady of Lourdes

Yesterday was the feast of Our Lady of Lourdes.Kids  read the story of Our Lady Of Lourdes as soon as they got up. Did some coloring pages.. Children learnt Hymn of Lourdes and done novena. Munnu decided to make grotto and he has made it really well with much perseverence. Lots of ideas to do on this feast day in Jessica's blog

Ancient Egyptians (3000 BC...)

Children is learning about ancient egyptians. Obtained a few resources from homeschoolshare.Munnu is making pharoh's crown and annu is making a necklace. Made a timeline of Egyptians.Kiddos went to ancient egyptian gallery in Manchester for a taught lesson to explore more about mummies,mummification, hieroglyphics, canopic jars, jeweleries the egyptian ladies used and made some pyramids.

Practical page has a very lovely lapbook folder on egyptians.

                    Below books we used for reference , which we obtained from library.

Using maps to locate Egypt and river Nile flowing through Egypt.

Children finding some evidences of the ancient egyptians using their picture bible. Came to know about that bulrushes were used to make moses basket and he was hid in reeds.

Making cookies

Feast of St Basil

Today is the feast of St Basil .St Blaise is the patron saint of throat sufferers, was a bishop and a martyr.Many churches hold a ceremony holding the candles crossed beneath people's throat., a special blessing invoking the aid of St Basil.Read about St Basil as a family. Children did coloring pages from matilda's page.

                                                         

We could go to our neighboring church where there was blessing of throat using crossed candles after H. mass. It was the first time we had such an experience. Enjoyable time.



                                 St Basil Pray for us.

Feast of Presentation of our Lord

Yesterday (Feb 2nd ) was the feast of presentation of the Lord, Candlemas, celebrates the day infant Jesus was offered in the temple according to the ancient jewish custom. To commemorate what Simeon said, there are special candle services in church. We asked our  priest to bless candles so that children can light candles for the meal and could repeat Simeon's below Canticle.

 'A light to lighten the gentiles and the glory of your people, Israel' Luke 2; 22-40.

There is an old saying that after Candlemas the days started getting longer, spring is on the way.Who in the family to see the first tight green buds on the trees?. Then in the evening we went out to our water park to feed the birds and children had a good bike ride, spent some time in park.