Historyetc – the anglo saxons arrive

first historyetc of the new term and we are off to a flying start with book 2 of SotW . these chapters recap the fall of rome, the celts taking back britain and then being attacked by the anglosaxons, and the coming of christianity to britain and the art of illuminating. also a bit about byzantium/constantinope.

These are the texts we are predominantly using this year

And for some extra celt/anglo saxons we have been reading

We had the pleasure of jax visiting the night before and had a good catch up and chat about moving on to secondary school home ed, life stuff etc. I cooked croissant/choc brioche and pain au chocolate bread and butter pudding – it was yummy as was the bit left over that we then had for breakfast. kids on the whole got on v well apart from one incident better completely and quickly glossed over…

everyone arrived early the next day, and we had a full house! v glad the deependers could make it as they are currently having a v tightly scheduled week so we had loads of crafts and the day went v quickly and was excellent . thankyou to everyone Z brought anglo saxon cooking, and it was all really delicious oatcakes, creamcheese and honey squares and something else also yummy. B brought weaving, I was particularly impressed by BB as although hers was small, it was really perfectly tensioned. SB also did weaving but not sure where she has hidden it. Merry brought her rather fab celtic motif hama bead patterns which I would really recommend, some really beautiful designs made. Gina brought lots of glitter glue and made calligraphy badges. I also did a different calligraphy badge, around their initials, and also read a bit of beowulf and had them design and illustrate their own anglo saxon chronical – lots of monster stories and some cross with how to train your monster . All worked out well. Jax struggled a bit with the tablet weaving, but having worked it out, we are going to do that next time and K ceremonial anglo saxon badges also worked really well.

Lots of socialising, lots of giggling and lots of good friends learning together. Perfect . hopefully Merry will like some of the books, and photos may follow. Did miss the 3 kids who are now schooling, but glad they are having a great time. Home education is a choice not a life sentence currently the home educated contingent of puddle girls are resident, and i need to start chasing them off to bed . Def looking forwards to the next one