Worksheets for a Quiet Morning, Stuffed Mushrooms and 7g Pipistrelle Bats

I made the kiddies some fun educational worksheets to consolidate their work so far.

The Boy's worksheets included literacy, a touch of maths and Autumn knowledge

Panda Girl's worksheets included Autumn knowledge and research tasks.

Monkey Girl's worksheets included a food web, Autumn knowledge and research tasks.

Autumn research books.

Ballet Girl continues to keep her head down in her study books

Weighing 7g of plasticine which is the how much a pipistrelle bat weighs.

The correct size and weight of pipistrelle bats. Cute!

Making a bat board game.

Land on B = bat disturbance  - go back 2 spaces

Land on M - moth, midges and mosquitoes - lots of energy! - move forward 2 spaces

Land on H = hibernation - miss a go. 

Land on a star - answer a question and have another go if you get the correct answer

Monkey Girl worked on bat worksheets

Following on from our fungus work we had portobello stuffed mushrooms for lunch.

Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn

Husband and daughters representing the Cadet Corps on Remembrance Sunday.

Lest we forget

Tree Fun and Bonfire Night Pancakes

Today we learnt some cool facts about trees.

It takes 50 leaves to grown one apple on a tree. An apple tree will grow between 10,000 and 15,000 apples in its lifetime. In the US, in colonial times, apples were called 'winter bananas' or 'melt-in-the-mouths'.

Harry Potter's wand is made from holly tree wood! Holly berries are a useful source of energy for birds in the winter, but are poisonous to humans.

We watched a cool video maple tree tapping on a family run farm in Canada.

We tried maple syrup while we watched it. Because you have to do that sort of thing.

Rowan trees have compound leaves with one leaflet at the top. In the US they are known as mountain ash. We have a rowan in our garden and the birds love its berries.

For centuries oak trees were used to build ships. Grey squirrels help with the distribution of acorns and oak growth success because they store individual acorns in numerous places, often forgetting where in the process. The acorns grow into seedlings and the oak tree from which they came has successfully reproduced. Red squirrels, however, store all their acorns in a pile, causing them to dry our and have less chance of sprouting. Conclusion: grey squirrels are better for oak trees.

This evening my two big girls had three ballet classes followed by a talent show at youth club.

 And these two littlies went with Papa (who was marshalling) to watch the fireworks.

Mummy chauffeured the ballet girls and made pancakes with maple syrup for post-firework yumminess. Pancakes after bonfire night has become a family tradition. No rest for the wicked!

Malteser Acorns, Apple and Cinnamon Cake, Home-Grown Pumpkin Soup and Fly Agaric Conkers

Apple tasting. Especially funny faces were pulled when it came to the Bramley cooking apples. So bitter!

Noting their findings.

We made a yummy apple and cinnamon cake with our leftover apples.

Malteser acorns :)

An autumn walk to find tree seeds.

Autumn hedgehogs

Our pumpkins didn't grow as big as were we hoping but to have grown them from seed and cared for them since March was a great feeling. We made pumpkin soup with our three biggest.

The onions were SO stingy. Stingy enough for goggles.

Using conkers to make fungi... As you do :)

The children chose mushrooms from our Tracker book.

And painted conkers for mushroom heads, with play dough for stalks.

Fly Agaric, Blue-Green Slime Cap, Common Brown Fibre Cap, The Sickener (great/awful names!)

Fly Agaric and Yellow Swamp Russules, with a fantastic play-dough Sickener. 'Never imagined I would say those words.