Roman Day at The museum of Kent life

Lovely day out with a group of Home ed families . They had demos Amulet making and the reasons for them, Built a marble run Aqueduct. Talks on food , drinks , Boadicea , and Roman inventions, as well as being able to wander around the museum and see the farm animals. The sun shone nicely too!

Amulet making (stamping initials into leather)

Amulets made!

 

 The beginnings of Testudo formation employed by Roman armys (Latin for turtle) 

Maths and Geography lessons aka Cakes and jigsaws

It's great fun doing normal everyday things as a family yet still somehow there's education in everything!Like many, My own children seem to be really visual learners . On top of that we had another great week and we had a guest to stay and some cake to eat. Win win! I think i may have to invest in some more geographic jigsaws.

Bye bye summer

Small project today And to keep summer alive , the fun we had on the beach. Collecting as many different shells as we could to identify them at a later date. That later date was almost 3 months later. Love these little books and i may just get some more! They managed to retain the information and difference in uni-valve and bi-valve shells. As well as identifying a few. Some remain as yet unsolved but google can help us with that.