All 3 girls made their own Croque Monsieur for lunch. Panda Girl was proud of her cheese tower.

What better way to start our French project than have a mini French pic-nic? We had a fun time in the supermarket first thing looking for all things French. I got some funny looks in the alcohol aisle when the girls started yelling "Mummy is this French wine?"
I am sensing a croissant breakfast later in the week...

The Tricolour flag :)

We discussed how the names of countries always have capital letters. They each drew a capital F and then pieced together the letters.

We looked at a map of Issigeac, the village where Papa's parents live in the South of France. We found Nanny Flo's house and figured out the best way from there to the village church.

...and then Mummy and Ballet Girl made La Tour Eiffel!

HAPPY HAPPY HAPPY BIRTHDAY BABY!!

My Beautiful Elodie Marie is 6 today! She is my sensitive, deep-thinking, sweet sweet sweet baby :) I love you Didi! xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Dinosaur Window Display.

Monkey Girl put her toy dinosaurs into size order.
Ballet Girl read and illustrated her dinosaur book and did some more work for her T.rex project (learning that the name means 'tyrant lizard king')
Later I weighed the girls and we did comparisons between them and the dinosaurs. It would take 383 Elodies to weight the same as a Tyrannosaurus Rex, 95 Lucias to make a Stegosaurus but only 2 Dominiques to make a Coelophysis!

My Panda Girl sorting colours.

Today Panda Girl went to her first ever gymnastics lesson. She loved it so much that she grinned for an hour. :)

Making a sponge cake for...

'Bella' the Stegosaurus cake :) It was yum!

This morning we used our Dinosaur Fact File to work out the lengths of different dinosaurs. The girls loved this activity and we all got a little blown-away with the size of a T-rex!

Ballet Girl working out where the legs would be on a Triceratops.

Our dinosaur memory/concentration game.

Today's worksheets: we used pentagons to make stegosaurus plates; Monkey Girl did some great addition on her own and Ballet Girl started a mini-project on her favourite T-rex.

Dinosaur books we have been reading.

This morning the girls had 3 piles of dinosaur worksheets to choose from: reading and writing, maths or fact-file. They worked really hard and Ballet Girl surprised herself with how well her maths is progressing - hooray!

Monkey Girl did some good subtraction work.

The girls spent all afternoon in the paddling pool and chasing bubbles from the bubble machine. It's a hard life...

Panda Girl spent all afternoon in happy raptures :)

Monkey Girl had some fun today with her dinosaur sticker book...

...and Ballet Girl excavated some dinosaur bones (to be continued).

Bank Holiday Monday we took the girls to Tring Natural History Museum - where we checked out some prehistoric bones!

My Darling Panda Girl playing with the dinosaurs.
Today I took the girls out to buy one more dinosaur each to add to their collection. Ballet Girl was delighted to find a pink T.Rex.

I ordered a dinosaur egg for the girls. We put it in water and waited...

When the girls came down for breakfast the next day it had begun to hatch - they were so excited.
Referring to our books we have decided that it is a baby brontosaurus.

Ballet Girl's new vocabulary which she is using to make sentences and dinosaur stories. Monkey Girl is learning them too.

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.