Field Trip Friday (on a Sunday) #31
Today was a beautiful day and it began with the chance to worship together with our Carrville Methodist Church family. It has been three years, almost to the day, that […]
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Breathtaking Music
What a way to spend the evening of the summer solstice! Tonight we heard the Durham University Symphony Orchestra performed the Planets by Gustav Holst in the Durham Cathedral. This […]
Field Trip Friday #29 – Hadrian’s Wall
Well today was our last official field trip adventure with Mr. Ray. It was also one of the few Fridays that Rob has been able to head out with us […]
Field Trip Friday # 26 Back at the Quay
Yesterday was one of the few Friday’s that Rob has been available to journey along with us. We had an opportunity to go back to the Trincomalee in the Historic […]
Seaham – Lord Byron and the Londonderry connection
It was so nice to get back over the Seaham yesterday. I am very glad we took advantage of the warm and sunny weather although, both children got somewhat sunburnt. […]
Field Trip Friday # 25
Today was an absolutely gorgeous day! The seagulls were flying over head, beckoning us to come to the sea side. So our dear Mr. Ray came to our humble homeschool […]
Field Trip Friday # 24 Pit Ponies
It was another trip back in time today. Back in time to the days of the colliery pit ponies. Mr. Ray took us back around to Beamish. We hadn’t seen […]
O sole mio
I thought that I had nothing to blog about today….. until I headed in to the Cathedral for volunteer work today. Durham Cathedral sits on a peninsula on a bend […]
The Strangest Place on Earth – According to Megan (Part 2)
We got kind of twisted around at this point. Which is just around the corner from the giant stone animal. Then we got stuck in a Maze 😦 […]
The Strangest Place on Earth – Field Trip Friday #23
Today’s field trip was an adventure to the Yorkshire Dales to see one of the strangest sites I have ever seen. We traveled about an hour in Mr. Ray’s bonnie […]
A Cuppa
It has been a bit of a day….. seventh grade math meltdowns, too damp outside to dry the clothes and too hot to run the heat to dry them on […]
Richmond Castle – English Heritage Site
On Monday, before we had our picnic feast along the river, our friends walked us up to Richmond Castle. As I was telling you yesterday Richmond Castle is another English […]
A Picnic, a duck race and a queen
Yesterday was a bank holiday here. Schools were closed and most people were off work. Some dear friends of ours, Giles and Nancy, invited us to go on a picnic […]
Field Trip Friday # 22 (part 2)
After our visit to Binchester Roman Fort there was a nearby site that I was very much wanting to see. Mr. Ray drove us a few miles down the road […]
Field Trip Friday # 22
This Friday our history teacher and school bus driver, Mr. Ray, picked us up and we headed just down the road to Binchester Roman Fort. Mr. Ray had told us […]
The Last of Belsay Hall
I told you I had a weeks worth of things to show you from Belsay Hall. It has been a week since our visit there. I thought that y’all might […]
Medieval Music
We did have a field trip Friday today. It was near by and quite interesting. I will tell you all about it on Sunday. I still have two more posts to […]
Ah Ha it’s a Ha Ha
So walking across a different part of Belsay Hall on Saturday Mr. Ray taught us about yet another brilliant European invention. This wall is called a Ha […]
Standing on “Tippy Toes”
I had another one of those “Aha” moments at Belsay Hall on Saturday. We were walking around the Medieval tent village and we came across a man peeling sticks for […]
George and the Dragon – Belsay Hall
I can not say enough good things about the English Heritage sites in the UK. They are fantastic! Upon our first visit to an English Heritage site we purchase a […]
That’s Strange
This is part 3 of our adventures this past Friday on Field Trip Friday #21 You can read post #1 and #2 here: https://thehaynesblog.com/2014/04/26/holy-island-field-trip-friday-21/ https://thehaynesblog.com/2014/04/27/holy-island-field-trip-friday-21-part-two/ After leaving Lindisfarne Castle we […]
Holy Island – Field Trip Friday #21 (part two)
Another interesting bit that we were able to see while on Holy Island was the Lindisfarne Castle. Lindisfarne Castle was built in 1550 as a coastal fortification. After serving as […]
Holy Island – Field Trip Friday # 21
When we first came to Durham there was an exhibit here for a short time that we had an opportunity to see. The Lindisfarne Gospels were visiting Durham and they […]
We love books, books, books
My undergraduate degree is in education. I taught literature, writing, reading, and other associated fields for almost 10 years before I entered full-time, vocational ministry. It was a wonderful experience. […]
Horrible Histories
We discovered a gold mine of history here in northeast England. I never imagined that history could be so exciting to my kids. As is the format in Classical Christian […]
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