Tuesday, 3 November 2015

Term 5 2015

A new school year and new plans!

Mondays
We continue at Home ed Sports group at the leisure centre then home for an early lunch with The Williams and the older 3 looking at "Who am I?" whilst the younger 3 work though "Leading little ones to Christ"

Tuesdays
Luke is spending the day at Gateway
Ben is starting the Edexcel iGCSE biology with Abi in the morning and Gateway in the afternoon.
Amy is at playgroup in the morning and she continues working through her alphabet book.

Wednesday
Amy is at playgroup.
Ben is finishing up his CGP KS3 maths book and working through A time of Peace comprehension book
Luke is working on a Using Maths - Mission into Space book and continuing with A time to plant comprehension book.
Joint reading

In the afternoon we are doing nature study/art

Thursday
Amy is at playgroup
Ben and Luke are doing some physics with their dad and continuing with maths work.
In the afternoon they are doing more practical work e.g. gardening and house maintenance.

Friday
Maths
Meeting up with The Williams
CIE Computer science iGCSE with Phil from church

Amy's activities

  • Practising number writing in salt









  •  Counting conkers





  • Gingerbread number game



  • Big brother helping with letter writing



18th Sept
Walk and Blackberry picking





27th Sept - Chosen Generation meet up - Heroes of faith

Daniel in the lions den

Ruth and Naomi

Boaz
Paul on the road to Damascus
Paul's shipwreck
Paul freed from prison
 2nd Oct
 Started topic on weather - looked at the atmosphere
Experiment to look at amount of oxygen in air

Chopping ready for soup at lunch
9th Oct
Does air have weight? and curry making

14th Oct
BBC philharmonic orchestra concert in Salford

23rd Oct
Colour chemistry day at UCLAN



30th Oct
Foraging walk with Nature ed



Other
Ben has spent a week doing work experience at the Ecology centre in Ashton and has produced some maps of all the SBI within a 2km radius of our house and different species which have been spotted there.


Luke and I had a morning out browsing the charity shops and having a cuppa and cake and filling in our annual questionnaire!

River Roch opening

There  are roadworks galore at the moment in Rochdale - some of these are due to plans to open up the River Roch in the town centre which is set for March 2016.
As part of this there have been some workshops organised and I attended a knitting workshop last week where Alison shared her plans for a hanging/banner to be made, to hang off the newly revealed bridge, depicting all the wildlife found in and around the river. She had a number of knitting and crochet patterns, so I set off with a crocheted fish. I was quite pleased with how it turned out. The lady next to me opted to make a seahorse?! Since then I have made a few more crocheted fish in different colours and also tried a knitted one.




It will be interesting to see how the finished hanging turns out.

Christmas presents

After many years of saying I will start making Christmas presents early I have got going this year!
I have made 2 scarves with some wool I bought on holiday, they have knitted up really quickly and I am really pleased with them.