The Natural History Museum was crammed to the rafters as it was half term, plus there was a false alarm evacuation! Lots of fun cousin time was had though!
Showing posts with label Natural History Museum. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Natural History Museum. Show all posts
Monday, 18 February 2019
What Home Education Looks Like - 18th February 2019
The Natural History Museum was crammed to the rafters as it was half term, plus there was a false alarm evacuation! Lots of fun cousin time was had though!
Monday, 12 February 2018
What Home Education Looks Like - 12th February 2018
The boy and I took a trip to the London museums to meet up with friends. It was half term so we had the novelty of having to queue to get into the Natural History museum... improved by sudden snow and hail!
Once in we whizzed about just seeing all our favourite bits as it was a flying visit :D
Monday, 3 July 2017
What Home Education Looks Like - 3rd July 2017
We had one of our museum days last week with first the Butterflies Exhibition at the Natural History...
Then our usual noodle lunch (museum day tradition!) followed by the Robots Exhibition at the Science Museum.
Monday, 26 October 2015
What Home Education Looks Like - 26th October 2015
Two days, three museums!
We had an organised trip to the National Maritime museum so got there on the DLR, with a quick opportunity for acrobatics.
We were there for a Viking workshop but got a bonus talk from this lovely chap all about the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition. He had actually done all the artwork himself.
We also got to use the interactive tablets on the Great Map, a favourite part.
Oh and of course the sailing simulator. Although I couldn't watch as it made me feel seasick!
Finally it was the workshop. Very interesting as we learned things we hadn't known.... like for example that the trading ships were called a Knarr. The children all got to try trading like the Vikings would with replica artefacts. Then two people were chosen to dress as Vikings..... Papaya and Povey! The workshop leader didn't even realise they were siblings when she picked them.
The clothes looked very comfortable and Papaya now wants me to make her a set ;)
As we were in Greenwich we decided to get our dinner at the market.....
...and also did a little shopping. This is the dinosaur Povey got after we took it back to the London flat.
I gave them free reign as to where we went on the Friday and they decided they wanted to take the new dinosaur along to the Natural History Museum to meet the big dinosaurs.
We had a look around the rest of the museum too...
....grabbed an (overpriced ) tea....
...and managed to fit in the Science Museum too; with a space capsule built from Lego...
...and lots of interactive learning.
The thermal imaging camera was particularly interesting, as you can see that Povey, on the right, looks normal, but I have very cold nose and fingertips, showing as blue. No wonder I've always got cold hands.
We had an organised trip to the National Maritime museum so got there on the DLR, with a quick opportunity for acrobatics.
We were there for a Viking workshop but got a bonus talk from this lovely chap all about the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition. He had actually done all the artwork himself.
We also got to use the interactive tablets on the Great Map, a favourite part.
Oh and of course the sailing simulator. Although I couldn't watch as it made me feel seasick!
Finally it was the workshop. Very interesting as we learned things we hadn't known.... like for example that the trading ships were called a Knarr. The children all got to try trading like the Vikings would with replica artefacts. Then two people were chosen to dress as Vikings..... Papaya and Povey! The workshop leader didn't even realise they were siblings when she picked them.
The clothes looked very comfortable and Papaya now wants me to make her a set ;)
As we were in Greenwich we decided to get our dinner at the market.....
...and also did a little shopping. This is the dinosaur Povey got after we took it back to the London flat.
I gave them free reign as to where we went on the Friday and they decided they wanted to take the new dinosaur along to the Natural History Museum to meet the big dinosaurs.
We had a look around the rest of the museum too...
....grabbed an (overpriced ) tea....
...and managed to fit in the Science Museum too; with a space capsule built from Lego...
...and lots of interactive learning.
The thermal imaging camera was particularly interesting, as you can see that Povey, on the right, looks normal, but I have very cold nose and fingertips, showing as blue. No wonder I've always got cold hands.
Nice to get the three museums under our belt before the hordes descend upon them in Half term ;)
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