What Home Education Looks Like - 26th May 2014

Thursday was a visit to the British Museum. The reason for the trip was the Viking exhibition, but before-hand we managed to quickly see the children's favourite view....

The Romans for Povey where he found his namesake.....

The Egyptians for Papaya who was inspired by her new Cleopatra jewellery.....

And finally my favourite gallery, titled "Living and Dying" but actually an exploration of life in many cultures.

As with the Pompeii exhibition we couldn't take any photos inside the Viking exhibition, but I can assure you it was awesome and impressive.... until the fire alarm went off and we were all evacuated into the main hall!

Here's an idea of what we saw.... and didn't see!

Such a shame as we were just getting to the part about genetics! I'll have to do some research myself. The publishing company my sister-in-law works for have actually brought out a book on the Vikings so I'll try and get to see that :)

What Home Education Looks Like - 19th May 2014

Lego maths and Lipstick flowers....

What Home Education Looks Like - 12th May 2014

We were able to take advantage of a ceramic painting shop's quiet hours to not only paint in peace but also learn a lot about the whole process from the owner.

To go with his current Simpsons obsession Povey made Spiderpig ;)

What Home Education Looks Like - 5th May 2014

On Friday we had to be up early to travel (well, we left at 8.00am which is early for us!) as we had a trip to Stonehenge to attend that had been arranged by another home education group.

There was surprisingly little traffic that morning so we had time for a drink and giant bourbon biscuits in the cafe.....

.... then once everyone else arrived we had a look around the visitor site....

....before boarding the special bus to Stonehenge itself.

 As an educational group we got to have a guided tour around the site and our guide was very knowledgeable and had some great images and artefacts to explain the history and heritage to the group.

It was a windy cold day, though mercifully dry, so some of the group opted out of the second part of the tour, where we went to the barrows (burial mounds) nearby and re-enacted a Neolithic burial.

On the way back the children were all given small instruments and had a go in groups at creating their own musical chants.

After taking the bus back we took a little time to look around the gallery at the visitors centre before we left. we particularly liked the clever 360 degree screens that gave you a feel of standing within Stonehenge itself at different points in history.

It was a really lovely trip and we'll certainly go again!