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.
This is the question we pondered on . In my home-school this year I have decided to look into the origins of so called "holy days". I think it’s important to explain to my children what it is they are seeing around them. In the shop windows and at friends and family's homes,on television and in public buildings. There is just no escaping it and explaining to them from The Bible what we believe as a family.
I will be putting up seasonal decorations to help them visualise the seasons . I’ve been teaching the little ones how to use a calendar and so have been looking at the days of the week and months of the year too.
Some of the buzz words we came across in our Easter /Lent research were Nimrod,Tamuz, Semaramis as they are known in Ancient Babylon.
In the rise and fall of each civilisation, it would appear that the conquerors adopted various aspects of the previous religion and rebranded them.
As a child I went to sunrise services and had Easter ham I went to church at midday on ash Wednesday to have my parish priest put a cross of ash on my forehead. For that period of Lent I saw people say they were going to abstain from a certain thing but neglected the very weighty things and ironically went back to doing it sometimes the very next day not even the full forty days. That always puzzled me as a child.I'm so glad of our decision to find a bible believing church.The truth is that the forty days of Lent, eggs, rabbits, hot cross buns and the Easter ham have everything to do with the ancient pagan religion of Mystery Babylon.
What is the ONE thing that God has called ALL of his people (Jew and Gentile) to observe?
1 Corinthians 11:24-26 And when he had given thanks, he brake it, and said, Take, eat: this is my body, which is broken for you: this do in remembrance of me. After the same manner also he took the cup, when he had supped, saying, This cup is the new testament in my blood: this do ye, as oft as ye drink it, in remembrance of me. For as often as ye eat this bread, and drink this cup, ye do shew the Lord's death till he come.
The only "observance" we're told to do is remembering the Lord through bread and wine for his awe-inspiring ransom he paid in full for our sins. This is the only observance we are given in the new testament scripture apart from keeping the 10 commandment law including the Sabbath
The following video is one I shared with my children not sure about the religious convictions of the presenter but his delivery of the main facts were short and easy for my kids to understand
We planted flowers that we learned about that can be seen all around England. We did some arts and crafts from this free website on this seasonal theme Easter and Spring
Shrove Tuesday 2012
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