Skiing in Scotland

The girls' pipe-cleaner and pom-pom skiers on our snowy Highland mountain

Elodie trying to spell the word 'Scotland' from memory - she did it too!

Dom pouring in the honey

Dom (of her own accord) holding the pan for Elodie while she stirs.

My gorgeous girlies putting the flapjack mixture in the dish

Scottish flapjacks - the girls and Papa (and Fendo because he stole Dominique's) devoured them over 2 days.

Yesterday we made Scottish flapjacks -yum!  The girls had gymnastics and they are both progressing well with their tumbles.  Dom and I had a lovely walk on the field with Fendo the dog while we waited for them.

Today I took the girls to a large activity centre to burn off some energy.   Elodie and Lucia took themselves to the toilet (this is a secure and safe place and I would NEVER normally allow them to do this) and laterI spotted them, walking with their arms around eachother, evidently looking for me as I had moved on with Dominique.  Dom and I shot down the huge slide (we were at the top)  and I raced after them. Lucia was upset and Elodie looking after her.  After big hugs and kisses Elodie told me "we were looking for you Mummy and Lucia was sad but I told her it was ok because we are sisters".  Elodie is such a good girl.  Later in the car on the way home, after 10 minutes of no talking at all I heard Lucia say "I love you Elodie".  Makes me proud to be their Mummy.

Well, Dom has croup and she has spent the last 3 nights waking at impossible hours.  Saturday night we went down to the kitchen to steam her (sounds really funny when you write it down!) and her and I ended up making pancakes at 4am.  

Today all 3 girls spent a while using coloured sticky-back-plastic to create pictures of the Scottish Highlands - mountains, loch (Ness monster included), lots of grass and a real thistle.

Elodie and Lucia made pipe-cleaner and pom-pom skiers to go on our Ben Nevis snowy mountain top - they played for ages with them and even Cinderalla got involved.

I gave the girls a blue square and they had to cut it correctly and stick the pieces on to white card in order to make the St Andrew's flag.  

Elodie learnt how to spell Scotland and she got 14/15 in her spelling test.  Hooray!  Lucia drew and drew and drew while Elodie sewed a cushion for her friend's birthday and both the girls made birthday cards.

I had a few errands to run in the car so the girls' listened to "Around the World with the Sticky Kids" which has a funny gaelic song about porridge. Elodie secretly sings along but refuses to sing it to show me :)

Hooray!!! Today I finally finished uploading 10 months worth of photos! I wanted them recorded as a log for everything we have achieved this year. They are all here below. We did projects ranging from Australia to Space and from Spring to The Good Shepherd.

To view all the projects (they date from January 2007 - October 2007) on one complete page click October in the archives on the right hand side of this page.

My next job is to link all the good websites that I use frequently for ideas to my Blog.

We are currently exploring (not literally unfortunately) Scotland...tbc

Pumpkin window display

This project turned out to be much bigger than I had anticipated - and all from a pumpkin! We used pumpkin worksheets for maths etc - using pumpkin seeds for estimations and actuals. We did lots of craft and cognitive development work. The girls enjoyed the pumpkin sequencing and matching and life cycle activities that I had set up for them and they also learnt the Peter Pumpkin Eater rhyme.

They had immense fun making pumpkin muffins after we spent a happy evening with Papa, de-seeding, flesh-scooping and carving the pumpkin and then we decided to hold a pumpkin party at the end of the week. I made various pumpkin soups and more pumpkin muffins and we were joined by grandparents, aunts and uncles for a great pumpkin evening followed inevitably by the girls dancing around the living room after commanding us all to watch.

Making pumpkin faces - the girls really enjoyed this. I gave them blu-tac and pieces of card which I had cut out for them.

Elodie's pumpkin face - she was excited about making a not so happy one!

Lucia's pumpkin face

Dominique's pumpkin face

The girls loved this - Peter Peter Pumpkin Eater. They loved the rhyme and pulled 'his wife' inside the pumpkin at "so he put her in a pumpkin shell" - they thought it was very amusing

Pumpkin life cycle sequencing

The children had to place each loose pumpkin faces onto its matching one on the card

I numbered a piece of card 1-8 and the children had to stick each picture in the correct sequence for the pumpkin life cycle

The pumpkin