End Of Year 2016

We wrapped up our school year . Infact we were doing schooling outside enjoying the weather taking bit more of a relaxed version.

Children along with us had some time of evaluation about what they liked most and not, what would they like to do for the next year?

Kids had some goodies to enjoy and use during summer holidays.

Our Summer Concert

2016 Summer concert is up again as we heading to mid summer. This is the first time our little Theresu is doing a stage performance. I was really amazed to see the way she has developed her confidence and the way Lord is helping her to grow as a sweet little girl, always think how each child grow and the way they develop many skills as time progress rather than pushing them to achieve certain goals what we want.

Munnu played 'Little brook' in the piano and was good. There were pieces of works by children played in various instruments like piano, trumpet, guitar, accordian and singing .Annu played ' Lord I need you...' in piano too followed by an action song from VBS by Mundackals. The concert was begun with Do Re Mi ...and finished with Lonely goatherd.... from Sound Of  Music. It was a great opportunity to conduct the concert for the residents of St Joseph's Home, Longsight.

Discovery lab

'Science Up Close 2016 '

Sci- Tech Daresbury Lab is a leading centre of science, innovaton, technology and business in rural cheshire and we got an opportunity to visit this wonderful lab as part of family event 'Science Up Close' happened on last week end which we came to know through other home edders. You can try your hand at programming mini robots and immerse yourselves in the virtual worlds and science experiments. The lab was opened for fist time to the public in the last 10 years and was an amazing opportunity for children and adults to know about wide range of telescopes, comets, galaxies, how MAGLEV trains work. There were models of  particle accelerators  and how did they work in cancer detection, Large Hadron collider tunnel, kitchen science activities including mixing various daily kitchen items, 3D printing, esp. ALICE that can help in very early identification of cancers.

Below is a infra red camera and explains how infra red captures heat from our body and the image in the screen explains whether he/ she got hot or cold nose by looking at the shades. Since body gives off radiation in the form of heat- we call this infra red radiation. This type of cameras can be used to measure sea surface temperatures from outer space.

Model of a Comet

                                       Kitchen Sience

One professor was conducting hands on workshop on model of atoms and explaining about protons, neutrons and electrons. It was great to know about Quarks which is explained as the elementary particle and a fundamental constituent of matter, which was a very new information to me. In addition, she was talking about leptrons, different types of quarks, dark matter, matter and non matter and so on..

There was a science activity zone with lots and lots of hands on activity for family to get involved  and was a brilliant day.

Munnu's 10th Birthday

Our Munnu turned 10. Time is flying so fast and I still remember my little baby when he was born. Munnu likes transformers especially Bumble bee and Optimus prime transformers. I wanted to do that theme for his birthday. Thank God for all the last 10 years. Just wanted to make an optimus prime cake, tried to cut out logo in icing using the stencil and applied in the cake, didn't work out properly. 

Birthday boy blowing the candle

Munnu is a lego fan and got some lego bricks,base board on his birthday and enjoy making different shapes and he had a mini rocket and some paper aeroplanes to assemble.

Just went to Trafford shopping mall to give him a treat and enjoyed watching Euro cup in there.

Holywell and Conwy

It was a great time with Joby, Ani n children to visit Holywell and Pantasaph.  Holywell  has its name taken from St Winifred's well surrounded  by a chapel. This is a christian pilgrimage since 660 and saint was beheaded when she was attacked. It is known as Lourdes of Wales. From there we went to Pantasaph  which is closest to Holywell , had food outdoor in the lawn of  Pantasaph and visited the calvary stations . This was great as children got opportunity to wander around and run themselves. Padre Pio garden and shop along with St David church which speaks of a catholic past from 7th century and name came from saint Asaph who ministered in that region. It was raining heavily , abandoned the visit to the church and went searching for the nearby beach shore in Conwy

The beach close to Conwy  which we went was an extensive sandy beach with  mussel banks and kids enjoyed scenery and making sand castles 

Geo enjoying the sand

June recap

Month of Sacred Heart

Since June is the month specially kept for Sacred Heart.Jesus himself reveals as the ''meek and humble of heart'' in Mathew 11; 29 which is the scriptural basis for this devotion. Sponge cake decorated with some strawberries and springles showing the thorns around Sacred Heart, flames were done with raspberries. 

St Antony's relics from Padua was there in Salford cathedral for veneration and it was a great opportunity to go and visit the relics.

Last week we went to visit Quarry Bank Mill which is one of the industrial heritage site in Manchester, where we saw how water wheel was used to work the weaving mills,  how the apprentice home was run. The guided tour was great which explained how the paupered children worked in the mill and learn about their working style and lives.

In Knowsley Safari park, baboons climbing up in the car .

 

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