I guess I'm catching up on blogging now! LOL! Just because I only blogged about fostering didn't mean that no school and learning was taking place! So in case you are interested here is some photographic proof that other things have been accomplished!

We had a schools session at Nottingham Castle about Archeology which the boys loved!!

They got to handle real and replica items that were dug up on the site.

They also got to handle real bones and try and figure out what creatures they came from. Eeww!

Then they got to dress up in armour! They were ecstatic!!!

In the afternoon we looked around the museum and found this mummified cat! How cool is that? We were very excited since we are currently studying Egypt and mummies in school. How neat of God to arrange things like that huh?

McGee especially asked if we could celebrat the Passover Seder this year so we did! We found a great Messianic seder which Dh read and we all enjoyed the evening. We decided that we will do this every year and look into the other Jewish festivals as well. I hope to find a Seder plate by next year and also some real Matzos. Our grocery store has sold them in the past so I just assumed I'd be able to get them there. Wrong! And by then it was too late to run around looking other places. I'll know better for next time.

The local Salvation Army was open for visitors this past Monday on Bank Holiday. We went in for a while and boys got to try to blow the horn and the trombone! They did it too!

We had another day at the local power station discovery center too. This is Monkey's nature model made out of all things collected on the nature walk. Can you see the bark making a cave? And that prickley reed is standing up like a tree. At the back is a stick stuck upright and moss hanging off as the branches of a tree! Clever Monkey.

McGee's nature model was of an ancient log cabin that had collapsed. When we got home he added plastic dinosaurs to the model!

These were clay models that were called 'Bogits'. This is Monkey's which they had to do with pieces they had collected on the nature walk along with other odds and ends. Isn't his cute?

This is McGee's really cleverly crafted Bogit! He actually made the nose first and then crafted the Bogit around it! Is that not the most amazing and realistic nose ever?

Unfortunately the nature projects and the Bogits have started to disintegrate and will be being disposed of this weekend but at least we have lots of pictures to keep!

   So there you have it! Proof that learning takes place even in the midst of the chaos around here!