I told the children that we were palaeontologists on a dinosaur dig in South America. I hid some cotton wool buds in some sand and gave the girls a pot and paintbrush each, telling them to be extra careful not to damage the bones.

We took the 'bones' back to the museum and reconstructed the dinosaurs we had unearthed :)

Working hard on their dinosaur worksheets.

I have discovered a cool way to encourage the children to eat their greens! I sewed baby spinach leaves onto a thread and hung it up, telling the children it was a tree and that any passing stegosauruses (stegosauri?!) were welcome to munch on it. All three girls had a fine time crunching away! :)

Over the past 3 days we have put a second layer of papier mache on our dinosaur eggs, painted a base coat and then added a brighter top coat of paint. Hopefully this weekend Papa will be able to varnish them.

This morning we used balloons to make papier mache dinosaur eggs. We made the glue with flour and water and we all got very, very messy!

Dinosaur eggs, waiting for their next coat of papier mache.

This morning, of her own accord, Monkey Girl referred to this book to work out which colour her brontosaurus should be in her colouring picture.

These are from a jigsaw but I covered the radiator in them for the girls to look at. They spent a great deal of time today working out which one they wanted to be.
Monkey Girl also spent a great deal of time today being a dinosaur egg (!) so we had some quiet for a time. :)

I set up a dinosaur land, complete with tunnel and cave, for the girls last night, for when they woke up this morning. Lots of ooohs and aaahs about the new dinosaur window display and then squeals when they opened the front room door :)

Fresh air time was during a downpour so the children kitted themselves out in suitable attire and went off to find some puddles.

Panda Girl :)

The girls had a trip to the dentists to have their teeth scrubbed and polished. Papa took them and we promised that if there were no tears, we would take them, as a special treat, to Activity Land. They were good, came home with sparkling white teeth and so Mummy made a pic-nic to take to Activity Land... We had very tired children by 5pm...

Rock climbing :)

Digging for Dinosaur bones with Papa.

Panda Girl learning to drive.

The Caribbean window display

This morning the girls made fruit kebabs.

Caribbean fruit kebabs!

I wrote a book for Ballet Girl and she read it and drew appropriate pictures. Big reading progression today :)

Today's worksheets.

Monkey Girl made a Caribbean island out of plasticine :)

At Playgroup this afternoon. I face-painted them before we left:

Playing in the garden before dinner. I put on some great Caribbean music in my studio (at the bottome of the garden) and the girls had a good dance. Here they were practising their gym tumbling :)

Friday, 18th April 2008


Papa has had a whole week off work this week so we had a day off today, although Ballet Girl did paint a big Caribbean picture.

Thursday, 17th April 2008

Lots of worksheets today, including a story written by Ballet Girl about the Caribbean.

Today Mummy had a day off for her Birthday!! Papa took charge and I got: a lie in, breakfast in bed, lovely presents from my girlies, time for a workout, a whole afternoon off while the children went out for some fun time with Papa, a tea party and a lovely evening with my parents and brothers and sisters. Thank you to my Yummy Wonderful Man :) xxxxxx I love you! xxxxxxx

A Tea Party for Mummy :)

Tuesday, April 15th 2008
This morning we measured bananas! We discussed whether it was better to use a ruler of a bendy tape measure for this. The girls the spent a good 15 minutes racing around outside measuring everything they could see.

Worksheets and seashell bookmarks.

Ballet Girl practising some new Caribbean vocabulary.

Palms and sand pictures.

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.