Saturday, 27 August 2016

Summer!

Our garden has given us raspberries and strawberries all summer.






My bookworm


Football with like-minded kiddoes

Ballet Girl has almost completed her first year of her American High School Diploma.

Our completed workbooks for the year.

Blessed

My mini chef


Fun in the sun










Learning about our friends' trip to Sri Lanka


A week of dance school for my three girls


The British Museum




Building with Papa


Animal experience



A treat with Mummy

My beautiful dancers performed in Mary Poppins. I love them.

Library craft

Shops and post offices


A Brazilian Drumming Workshop




A day with friends








A kite-making morning at the Forest Centre






Summer school fun


Baking

and summer craft



Learning about Capability Brown and British gardeners with English Heritage

Our Capability Brown garden.I'm not entirely sure it's in his style though.



Monkey Girl has landed a job at the stables. I've never seen her grin so much.




Papier Mache gluey goo

A successful potato harvest from the garden.

Accidental sunflowers which grew after the kiddies spent a week taming a robin with seeds.

Beetroot





Chasing fog


Being a Nature Detective with Mummy


My big girl

Driving a power boat



Winning at the Area Combined Regatta. Ballet Girl is off to Nationals!


Representing the District, my Monkey Girl in the kayak marathon.


This amazing girl went to Royal Marines Camp for a week.




Where she won 'Best in Troop'. So blinking proud!

And this amazing girl went to Falmouth for a week of boating on the sea.
























Bucket Filling

We ended our 11th homeschooling year with a unit on random acts of kindness and bucket-filling, i.e. helping others to be happy with acts of kindness.


We used this lovely book to grasp the concept.

Designing and sewing a heart.



Telling family members why we love them.






We put these in two local bus stops.






Love-bombing. Leave fun gifts and cards and run!



We made surprise gifts for our neighbour's tree.




Being kind to cousins.


Thank you card for the refuse collectors.



Thank you card for the library.

A colourful picture for a local care home for those with dementia.

All the smiles were taken!