...and more parties.

The Arctic and Antarctic window display

Some of the girls' worksheets they completed for their Polar project. We had out first look at similes and acrostics and a introduced the idea of an alliteration.

They also had fun with snowy watercolours, mazes, listening work, questions, a venn diagram, vocabulary and word searches, a Favourite Arctic Animal survey which they asked all their friends and a good look at Polar Bears (in captivity, their paws, food, fur, cubs etc)

We spent a whole morning learning about Emperor penguins in the Antarctic. They then dictated their own story to me about the life of a Mummy, Daddy and chick Emperor and we had immense fun using bean bags as penguin eggs and trying to pass the egg from 'Mummy's' feet to 'Daddy's' feet without dropping it on the ice. The girls spent the rest of the morning role playing with their cuddly penguins (I confess to having a huge and pointless collection of cuddly penguins. :)

Making Polar bears...

Polar bears...

I glued magnets to the back of these pictures and using the radiator as our world, the girls had to decide which Polar animal belonged in the Arctic and which belonged in the Antarctic.

Igloos made with icing sugar and sugar cubes.

Our Polar reference books.

What else have we been up to?

Is Papa in need of a son? He made the girls some great swords. Panda Girl ran around with hers waving it and shouting "Sword sword! Poke poke!"

Out for a hot chocolate with Nanny and Grandad and Aunties and Uncles.

Helping Mummy :)

The girls spend hours at their desks. They are always so busy. What will I do if number 4 is a boy?!

Walks in the woods.

Ballet Girl helping Mummy get the garden ready for winter.

Fireworks window display

The best Papa ever :)

Sparklers! Can you beat them?!

Firework and skyline pictures with glitter pens.

Firework pictures in a sparkly frame.

Before things got messy! Thank goodness for vacuum cleaners!

Firework pictures with shiney, glittery, sticky things :)

Firework pictures with magic pens.

A Day in the Life of Panda Girl.

People often ask me how I keep Panda Girl entertained while the other two work. She often joins us at the table with colouring pens and pictures to colour or stick or sometimes she uses the opportunity to play with her big sisters' toys. Nearly 3 now, she has gymnastics lessons once a week and Playgroup twice a week. Next month she will be joining her sisters at their weekly Storyclub and will also be commencing Trampolining lessons, for which she cannot wait!

We had a well-earned half-term break last week. Lucia made a fabulous papier mache Apatosaurus...

...and we had a lovely time catching up with friends.

Autumn window display.

Monkey Girl's fingerprint hedgehogs.

Panda Girl painted a beautiful leaf mobile.

Singing in the rain :)

A favourite from last year. The girls painted 'Peter Peter Pumpkin Eater' cutouts and relearnt the poem.

Our Autumn collection.

An Autumn crossword.

Autumn walk. You can't beat it :)

Autumn mud stomping.

Making a playdough, matchstick hedgehog.

Autumn vocabulary, bookmarks, mazes, a bit of maths and some leaf identification worksheets :)

Panda Girl - a hibernating bat.

The Star Apple story and our leaf experiments (how long does the leaf take to fall when I drop it?, how many coins are needed to sink the leaf?, how long is the leaf?)

Autumn craft for the two littlest.

Collecting leaves for our leaf colour chart.

Panda Girl's 'match the scarecrow' work and the two eldest's cocktail stick hedgehogs.

Autumn bingo.

Apple bobbing (a lot of giggling).

Our leaf colour charts, foil leaves, leaf rubbings and a bit of fun.

A bit of Pirate Fun
My scary pirates.

First mate Panda Girl

Looking for treasure.