Shrove Tuesday 2012
Well I decided to start the children off with
a pancake breakfast about 6:45am. After family worship
I read to them a short excerpt from here
http://resources.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/customs/shrove.html
Traditionally in the U.K. people celebrate with a Pancake Day race.
So we went on a field trip to do exactly that. The beauty
of home-schooling is you can do fieldtrips whenever you want.
It helps to cement in the children’s mind concepts that I try to teach them.
Best of all it was free so we only paid to
park and I made a pack lunch so that took care of that.
My husband asked me if I chose this particular site
on purpose as there was so much to see and do. Libraries, museums,
historical monuments and even duck ponds were a-plenty.
Alot of sites are protected and fall under
English Heritage trust and is funded by the government or the national
lottery.
If you are looking for fun educational
days out whether you home-school or not it might be
worth becoming a member of the trust which has
so many benefits
http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/
Europe is very old and alot of the sites are well
preserved and documented.
For me being from the Caribbean originally where we
hardly have a
written history I find it rather intriguinging.
It definitely makes for a very rich home-schooling experience
and as an added bonus the kids enjoy it too .
We were home by 2:30pm but everyone was so
tired they skipped dinner and the craft I had planned.
Here are the highlights in video