lol – next time I am going to be able to say that it is all greek to me!! ANyway, this time was about arshibanapal and the library at Ninevah, The hanging gardens of Babylon and Nebuchadnezzar and the Minoans. It was a full house and some really interesting and different crafts/activities.
As usual, our chapters and crafts are based around story of the world, I am taking an archaeological activity from the kids book, and we are also reading some relevant myths
My girls and Big both agreed that their fv today was the plaster frescoes that Lecielrouge came with but that there was a great selection of different crafts to do. Merry brought fimo, and all the kids did some v careful ‘hanging baskets of babylon’ 
I did a slightly crazy hanging gardens of babylon, where we cut up those black plastic modules and then used a hot glue gun to glue them back together in a more ‘interesting’ configuration. we then put in compost and seeds, so a garden they will be 
. for the older kids we had some wordsearches and crosswords and a ‘maths-in archaeology’ scenario. Lots of the children drew labyrinths and mazes. The younger ones had a paint a minotaur mask as well and they all made minotaur peg dolls and books for the library at nineveh. All v successful .
unfortunately it was a bit too rainy, so no trampolining and then no clear skys to starwatch 
Also within 5 mins SB had had an accidental collision with one of the toddlers, and her broken but fixed tooth is now broken again. . It was pretty hurty, and hurt periodically thro the day, enough to keep dosing with nurofen so visit to dentist in the morning.aarghh and hope no damage done. now children playing before bedtime, Jax and i have imbibed a bit of wine in a phew, another successful session, now relax kind of way! Will add a few pics when flickred
Shame about the tooth – hope it can be fixed again
All the rest sounds great though, as per usual x
Hope the tooth is ok. Looking forward to seeing pics of the historyetc
i told her enough was enough! Tooth will be fine but half a day taken up with dentistry. Hugs to her as am sure it reminded her of the original trauma. Tell the dentist to use stronger glue. xx
As for all the rest, fantastic! Well done to all.
Sorry to hear about the tooth. I broke a crown the week before last – it must be catching – and I’ve now got a temporary one until the (hideously expensive) replacement is ready. Ugh.
eek, gina said – commiserations! SB has had it built back up today, but told she needs to brush better…
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Helen,
I’ve been looking at your maths resources post from last year. I’m thinking of using MEP for secondary stage maths once my Rebekah finishes Singapore MPH 6. Do you have the passwords required? If so, could you let me have them?
Thanks,
Debbie (who is planning ahead)
thanks for hosting such a lovely day. We *will* be earlier next time!
Debbie, the password is the same anywhere you need a password and it’s CIMT4maths
I think the MEP secondary stuff is very thorough, though I doubt you would want to work through all 3 years of KS3 after doing MPH6. When Gwenny finished it last year I just started her off on the GCSE years of MEP, and if there’s anything that needs more of a foundation then we have the option to go back and pull out the relevant units from years 7/8/9.
Have you looked at the Singapore secondary books? They do a 5 book standard course or a 4 book express course – there have been a variety of different versions over the years and it took me a while to decide which to go for. Ernest has just started Mathematics Matters and so far I like it.
Jax, maybe you should stay over the night *before* history not the night after!
oh gawd. wish i hadn’t read these. Am all jittery about curriculum again – especially maths
since she has done so well in french school, i think your provision must be ok!