Noticeboard

I loved the idea of the fridgeschooling that has been taken up by various homeschoolers whose blogs I frequent, but our English-style fridge just isn't big enough - particularly given that it already displays our calendar, menu plan for the week, shopping list and assorted photos - and isn't located conveniently for family viewing. Never one to be daunted by practicalities in the face of a great plan (how I love plans!) I made a noticeboard instead. I used thick artist's mounting board in a dark blue, and added card "frames" in lighter colours. Each week I am changing the contents of the frames by sticking new printouts on with bluetack. I am using the board to display:

• the main feast days for the week
• a quotation
• a Bible verse
  
• catechism questions and answers or other items for our Fruits of the Spirit study (often but not always the Bible verse and quotation will tie in with this.)
• a work of art
• a multiplication table
• a prayer
• two British Sign Language signs
• anything else that takes my fancy

This is how our noticeboard looked last week.

Next week it will be displaying:

• Feast Days - Guardian Angels, St.Francis, Our Lady of the Rosary
• A quote by St Josemaria Escriva on guardian angels
• Matthew 18 v.10 ("See that you never despise any of these little ones, for I tell you that their angels in heaven are continually in the presence of my father in heaven.")
• The Ten Commandments (we are focusing on love for God, so will use the first four commandments for copywork)
• List of the nine choirs of angels
  
• Guardian Angel prayer
• Five times table
• St.Francis and the Birds by Sir Stanley Spencer (painting)
• Signs for "bath" and "sleep"

I haven't yet found a permanent home for the noticeboard. So far it is being propped up against a table or the sofa and put away under a shelf in the evening. Not ideal ... and not practical once Little Cherub gets mobile!