...out with friends...

...and helping Mummy.

...making the most of the sunshine :)...

...making things with 'The Play Rangers'...

...playing in the teepee...

...catching up with friends...

...at the play gym...

...and lots of bike riding.

The Rainforest Window Display

Our Rainforest books.

Papa took the girls to the Safari Park to find Rainforest Animals!"

Panda Girl and a squirrel monkey (Central and South American Rainforests).

Australasian Rainforest Lorikeets.

Monkey Girl and a red lorri.

In the car on the safari trail, drawing rainforest animals that they can see.

Rainforest craft.

Copying a sloth for her Rainforest book.

Ballet Girl's string sloth and her and Monkey Girl's feather birds' of paradise.

After yesterday's trip to the PYO farm Ballet Girl helped me wash and sort the strawberries to make...

... strawberry smoothies...

... and smoothie lollies :)

Today we went to a 'Pick Your Own' farm.

Monkey Girl and our strawberries.

Ballet Girl helping Mummy :)

It all got a bit too much for Panda Girl.

Panda Girl made a fantastic pom pom snake.
This morning the girls worked to 'Sounds of the Rainforest' - lots of lovely bird and monkey calls, rain falling and the stillness of the forest. They were enthralled :)

Today's rainforest worksheets (Panda Girl did a beautiful frog - bottom left). Ballet Girl did a great wordsearch and frog crossword. Monkey Girl made a lovely number snake.

Rainforest animals: a blue chameleon, a leopard Panda Girl was a snake.

We found some insects for our forest floor.

The girls found this so funny. Monkeys from the rainforest.

After work we went for a trek in our local woods/Rainforest, equipped with all things necessary for watching birds of paradise, dodging venemous snakes and hiding from jaguars.

Ballet Girl looked for howler monkeys.

Panda Girl cooled off with a bowl of water while her big sisters had their gymnastics lessons.

Craft Week window display

And we finished off the week with some games and a pic-nic in the park with Playgroup friends :)

Monkey Girl painting her Dora plaster of Paris model.

Ballet Girl made a bead princess all on her own. :) And Monkey Girl made a pink heart all on her own too :)

The finished 'Terracotta Potter pots' :) Now to plant.

Ballet Girl and Monkey Girl painted their flower pot objects which we will stick on tomorrow.

Hama beading. Panda Girl later used these in her play kitchen and they were strewn across the entire floor. Not really the same as crumbs as you can't just vacuum them all away.

Monkey Girl's bead dog and Ballet Girl's purses.

... and then we had a pic-nic in the park :)

This morning Ballet Girl and Monkey Girl worked really hard on their maths and English. Both did some great vocabulary and Panda Girl proved that she can still read the word "egg" (which nobody appears to have taught her...!). She did some lovely gluey, sticky, sequiny, painty work and then had a good play with Peppa Pig and friends. :)

Ballet Girl and Panda Girl planted strawberry seeds in their mini flower pots.

Ballet Girl and Monkey Girl painted their "Terracotta Potter" flower pots whilst Mummy and Panda Girl made the plaster of Paris shapes to be stuck on them later. :)

Monkey Girl did some rainbow art and then we spent the rest of the day at various gymnastics lessons and playing outside in the sunshine :)

Monkey Girl painted her own breakfast bowl.

Ballet Girl made some gorgeous hand-bags :)

Monkey Girl made a clothes peg princess...

...and sewed a beautiful neck purse.