Sports Day 2014

Our sports day was great with lots of sports like, dash, egg and spoon, obstacle race, high jump, long jump, throw, tug of war etc.Children were given lot of certificates and achievement medals.

Thanks Carol Budgells for organizing this day wonderfully.

Summer 2014

This summer we thought we have invited some of our homeschooling families for meal together. Children played together and had fun, parents as usual talked about homeschooling and lot of other stuffs.

Rini is leaving Manchester and going for wedding. We gave a farewell to Jithu and Rini.Bid Adieu

Home School Conference 2014

Teach camp for homeschoolers was organised by CEE(Christian Education Europe). Cefn Lea was the place of conference and had quite informative sessions on 'nothing is trivial', 'boy versus girls communication', 'juggling homeschooling'  and ACE (accelerated christian education & PACE), there were lot of fun for children and to explore themselves in the afternoon,  evenings ended with rally  with introduction, children's concert, worship. As a family, we all played various sports. Last week was really graceful with beautiful memories.We met a few Homeschooling families and stayed with another homeschooling mum of  7 children. 

Munnu turned 8

We had our Munnu's 8th birthday party yesterday. He would love to do a sports themed birthday with some games especially to play cricket with his friends.I convinced him to have his party in our garden and we could go to one of the nearby park to play sports.

The snack table was loaded with goodies. Cupcakes were decorated and put cricket toppers, chocolate footballs, crisps, pop corns, Twizzlers, fruit cocktail with melon and strawberry. Decorated the table with a cricket ball and made banners with cricket ball picture, decorated the wall with a cricket ball and a bat      cut out made by Munnu himself.

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Me and children together made a chocolate cake, decorated with desiccated coconut with green food coloring to look like the pitch, made cricket stumps and bails with flakes wrapped around with white icing, cricket bat and a ball.

The kids did play lot of football, girls versus boys and boys versus boys, some played trampoling, tennis . Children had some  hot dogs in our back garden. Munnu actually wanted to do some races, unfortunately time ran out so fast.We had the pinata for the children to break and it was fun .Our friend Pushpa was with us to help too. Thank God for Munnu's last 8 years with us .

Then towards the end , we all went to our nearby water park to feed the ducks and kids played some ball games in the park. It was a beautiful time and it was fun to put all these things together.

Earth- layers

I have not been blogging for long time. We only came back from India after munnu's Holy Communion two weeks back..Started learning about 'Layers Of Earth'. Good information on layers of earth from freemontissori. We made different layers of earth using modelling clay one over the other.Children learnt about crust, mantle, inner core and outer core. They were amazed to the cross section of the model to see  the different layers on earth.Another HE blog on about the activity on different layers o earth is found here. Montessori blog on learning ark is found quite informative.


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