Toadstools and Molehills

Toadstools.  That's how we rolled this morning.

And spiders and pumpkins.

And decorating a mole hill.

The Boy did some charting...

...and placing...

...and counting.

'Stained glass' window leaves.

Busy hands...

...to make an Autumn scene.

The Boy made an Autumn loom.

Autumnal clay.  The Boy made the hedgehog, Panda Girl made the lovely leaf candle holder, Monkey Girl made the squirrel, fox and owl heads and Ballet Girl made the leaf and bat.

After making the hand-print owls yesterday I dried out the baby-wipes the children used to clean their painty hands and today Panda Girl used them to make a play bonfire.

 Alphabet bingo.

And then we went to the library and took out 57 books. :)

And tonight the girls have football training at Sea Cadets. Fun!

Autumnal Kilos

The Boy and his sisters, and Autumn pairs

This was a hit.  Selling apples by the kilo in the farm shop: a happy hour's worth of role-playing this morning and both Panda Girl and The Boy learnt about kg and adding smaller or larger apples to make whole kilos.  Our wonderful neighbour even paid a visit and bought 3 cooking apples for a real 50p.  The kiddies were delighted.

The two littlies made an autumnal sensory jar.

...while the two eldest chose some stick projects from this wonderful site:

http://www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/en/learning-kids/Pages/children.aspx#.UlxIdVCG33s

They made magical woodland staffs.

Monkey Girl made a nature mobile...

...and a walnut boat.

I love these next few photos; trying to read a brilliant book while next door's cat vies for affection.

The Boy made a fingerprint tree for his woodpecker poem.

Hand-print owls

Autumn stories

Ballet Girl and Monkey Girl also worked on their Maths, Nature Study, English and Spanish.

And Mondays afternoons are for trampolining lessons and a hot chocolate and sit-down for Mummy while she waits :)

Autumn is Here!

A rainy Sunday afternoon.

 Autumn sensory tray

Autumn landscapes

Fun set up for the morning

Matching for The Boy

Autumn Pairs

Life-cycle of a Pumpkin

Home-made leaves for sensory play

Yummy cakes made by Ballet Girl this evening.

London's Rosary Crusade and Hunting for Autumn Treasure

Monkey Girl went to London yesterday with her Nanny and a thousand other people on the annual Rosary Crusade from Westminster Cathedral to Brompton Oratory.  

The rest of us went looking for autumnal treasure.

Sweet chestnuts

I sorted the treasure...

...and then they got painting.

 A few masterpieces.

Fun with Owls. Craft for a rainy weekend.

Magical Doors

Inspired by an amazing local forest which has secret doors hidden among the trees, which lead to nowhere, but are incredibly exciting to find, I commissioned Papa and the children to make some for our garden.

So if you look for the opening in the bushes under the eucalyptus tree...

..and take a peek inside...

...you might see a little elf door...

...or two.

The House of Stuart

We ended our Stuart project early and will return to it soon, as Autumn is upon us and I wanted to seize the moment and have some Autumn fun.  

Here's our Stuart display.  We have studied up to the end of the two Civil Wars and Oliver Cromwell. Charles II and all your partying, you will have to wait!