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Sunday

Yesterday when it snowed for a while we all raced up Crickley Hill to see the blizzard in full swing:

three cold explorers

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Wednesday

Large list of crops grown and animals farmed from the Anglo-Saxon period:

Anglo-Saxon agriculture

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Tuesday

First we made a list of ingredients and the utensils needed:

list of ingredients and utensils

Measuring the sugar:

measuring the sugar

Pouring the sugar:

pouring the sugar

Creaming the margerine and sugar together, they all had a turn at this:

creaming the marg and sugar together

All getting hungry…

all getting hungry

End result of their efforts:

end result

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Monday

Children helped generate a huge list of vegetables and fruit whilst waiting for dinner:

huge list

Picked up an Education Loans Box from the Corinium Museum on the Anglo-Saxons:

Education Loans Box

Various burial artifacts:

burial artifacts

Amber necklace and bronze broaches

amber necklace

A quick visit to the library provides a good range of reading materials:

library

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Friday

We had some post from our sponsored girl in India:

news from afar

Need to find out where she lives:

where is India?

Now learning about some facts and figures for the region:

how many people live there?

DK interactive CD ROM called World Explorer:

better than computer games

Later in the day they had a mass Teddy Bear’s picnic:

teddy bears on parade

Start them off young – here is Susanna 17 months, notice the precission with which she places the pegs in the holes:

start em off young