Imagining. We looked at photos of the Caribbean coastline and then listened to some calming sea music, while 'floating in the sea'. They imagined the hot sun, the dolphins, the warm sea water, the fish and the feeling of bobbing up and down on the waves.
Then we turned on some Cuban music and they had a good old boogie!

Face painting time! Caribbean Carnival girls!

Island collage.

Tuesdays are gymnastics lesson days :)

Monday, April 14th 2008
We began our Caribbean project by making banana bread.

Our banana bread :) We ate it for lunch with strawberries and yoghurt.

Being hurricanes.

We looked at some Caribbean flags, the Island of Puerto Rico, the idea of Island hopping, the weather, palm trees and started learning the names of the Islands.

We read some lovely books about the Caribbean.

A perfect excuse to set up the play-sand :)

Spring window display

To finish our Spring project, we took the children to a working farm to see some new-born lambs.

Monkey Girl and lamb :)

Panda Girl :)

Watching sheep shearing.

Watching the wool being spun.

At Gambado's. Burning off some energy.

Feeding the horses.

The last of the girls' Spring work. Ballet Girl had her first look at fractions and Monkey Girl completed a booklet about the lifecycle of a frog.

This morning I discovered Ballet Girl had changed Panda Girl's nappy and was in the process of choosing her clothes and dressing her, tights et al.

The result!! 

Monkey Girl has spent a great deal of time recently teaching Panda Girl how to play catch. Panda Girl thinks it is the most fun thing to do ever :)

The girls' peas are growing so well I have transferred them into a larger pot.

Ballet Girl spent the day today with Nanny M to give her a change of scenery, before term-time activities re-commence.  Monkey Girl asked to do some painting so we made symmetry butterflies, where she painted one side and then folded it over.

Monkey Girl's symmetry butterflies.

Monkey Girl's writing practice. She made a lovely book about the life cycle of a butterfly.

Panda Girl did some glueing today and then, no kidding, spent AN HOUR AND TEN MINUTES peeling it off her fingers. She was so, so quiet!

New story tapes. They love them!

Monkey Girl beaded a caterpillar using a fluffy pipe cleaner and green beads.

The finished caterpillar complete with half-eaten leaf.

Ballet Girl and Monkey Girl spend most of their spare time doing lots of boy things two houses up the lane with their little friend. They spend a great deal of time digging up this patch of earth, or laying bricks. Today I found them hammering nails in to bits of wood and raking mud.

It must be so lovely for Ballet Girl to know that when Papa comes home he will be able to fix her bike. And he did - first thing! :)

We woke up on Sunday morning to a beautiful white world. I personally was woken by the sound of lots of squealing and small children running round throwing on hats and gloves...

Today we went to a 'Craft Morning' at our local library. The girls did some great work. We zipped around the market and then went to the park.

The girls' work.

Pic-nic lunch.

Plasticine bugs.

This book is fantastic! The girls loved it!

Butterfly face-painting request.

... and Panda Girl asked to be a ladybird :)

The girls spent all afternoon outside...

Thursday, 3rd April 2008

In their jim-jams this morning making things at their 'Creation Station'.

Lacing...

The girls' 'Shape Shop'.

This afternoon, after a fun trip to our friend's toy shop and then a great walk to the park, Ballet Girl set up a drawing table for her sisters...

This evening I set up a 'Creation Station" for the girls to have fun with in the morning... wish me luck clearing up...

This morning the girls did some spring finger painting. They made caterpillars, butterflies and blossom.