Tuesday, 14 October 2014

Asthma and Hedgehogs

Coughing and Spluttering.  That is how we are rolling this week. 

The Boy's asthma is bad too so we are all having not much sleep.  However, despite staying in his jimmy jammies all day, he still requested work time this morning. Cute :)

He made a blow-paint autumn tree...


...thought about what he could hear, see, feel, taste and smell in Autumn (apparently he tastes fish fingers in autumn)...

...drew some cute autumn images...

..and we used the nature basket to find all sorts of shiny, slimey, flat, dead, delicate etc things in nature.

Panda Girl is NOT coughing or spluttering, but is instead, being extremely cute and happy.  She worked hard on her work today.




She learnt about word contractions - all written on pumpkins for the autumn theme - of course!




Panda Girl also started some fraction work, which up until now, she has failed to grasp.  She did a great job today!

Spellings

And Spanish, where we talked about pronouns and not really using them in Spanish conversation :)

Meanwhile, Ballet Girl and Monkey Girl are making an autumnal story in the form of a self-published Blurb book!  We talked about pricing, layout, story-lines, structure, design and collaborative work.  They decided that Ballet Girl would write the majority of the story and Monkey Girl would illustrate.  

The Boy spent the afternoon resting.

Hibernating hedgehogs.


Pick-Up Sticks with a favourite Papa, before bedtime.

Monday, 13 October 2014

Autumn

Autumn!  We do this topic every year because it offers such a wide variety of cross curricular subjects to cover and it gets us in cosy comfy mode after Summer.

The only issue today was that I have a whole bunch of poorly, worn out children who can't sleep for coughing.  

So we took it easy this morning.

Monkey Girl made her own fungus using bread, sealed in plastic bags...

...One was left in its original state and placed in daylight at room temperature and the other was soaked in water and placed in the airing cupboard.  She made some predictions about which would develop mould and how long it would take - watch this space!

The Boy made a cute owl.

Ballet Girl coughed and spluttered her way through the beginnings of an autumnal picture.

 Monkey Girl made this beautiful autumnal landscape using pastels.



And Panda Girl made some super autumn silhouettes.

 And a pastel landscape.

This afternoon we skipped trampolining lessons and Ballet Girl wrote a story.

While The Boy rested.

Sunday, 12 October 2014

Ice Sliding and Blueberries

The Boy finished his Cooking Week with blueberry muffins.  Previously having measured things out for him myself, this was his first attempt at weighing the ingredients himself.




He followed Paul Hollywood's (from The Great British Bake Off) recipe and they tasted incredible!  Not all of our baking turns out well so it's always exciting to make something extra cool!

Monkey Girl enjoyed creating her scene from Oliver Twist so much that she made one for Great Expectations too.




Helping The Boy with his Nature Study

Also this week the Duplo has been out...

...the children have made some mathematical structures...


...Panda Girl and Monkey Girl made shortbread biscuits...

...the kiddies played chess...

...Panda Girl went to an Ice Sliding Party...




 ...and Ballet Girl made crystals.