Modelling Clay Activity

After some pretty tricky Maths on Education City this afternoon and a Film Review of Dolphin Tale 2 the kids decided to play modelling clay, this first photo is Daddy and Mummy by Jellybop.
The second photo is Uncle Steve without his beard, by Legoboy!  It will be added later when there is more charge in my phone battery!

Crafty Time

We got some new Hama Beads yesterday, so we decided to try our hand at them.
A quick look on Pinterest and we were off!
Two Minions, a multi-coloured star and two birdies to brighten up the winter garden :)
One is already on his way to a branch...

Floating and Sinking

We made lolly stick rafts today and tested which things floated and which things sank.......

Glueing Eyes On Tomatoes!

Yes that's what we're up to this afternoon Legoboy decided he'd like to do a bit of animation.  I'm thinking Lego...

No it's a la Ooglies!!

We have just glued googly eyes onto some baby plum tomatoes...

so that they can be cherries and now Legoboy is busy converting my hand mixer into a "cherry copter"

This one is called "Tim the Stapler"

And finally for today...

"Kevin the Kitchen towel"

Such adventures afoot!!

More Button Art

Button Art

   By Jellybop x

Back To School-Not!

Well while pretty much everyone was "Back To School" on Tuesday/Wednesday this week we had a far different week!

On Monday we met up with a few other HE families in Lancashire, it was a bit of a juice guzzling trip in our Jeep, but we had a fab time comparing notes on what we "do" to Home Ed.

The kids were ranging from 10 months to teenagers.  They played keyboard, squeezed into the trampoline, snacked, pogo stick-ed and generally "socialised"!

 

On Tuesday I tried (mistakenly) to give our day a little more structure oops, note to self, "we're deschooling!!!!!".

So after a go at Reading Eggs and Math Seeds...

I got out a couple of worksheets/workbooks, huge refusal!!

So we relaxed and I backed down a little..

In the afternoon we did a couple of experiments- sodium bicarbonate and vinegar volcano and raisins bobbing in lemonade (thanks Aunty Jacky for the kit <3 )

On Wednesday we went on the Door To Door Ministry as part of our activities as Jehovah's Witnesses, we enjoy this as it help us to understand about other people and their beliefs, and help to encourage the children's social skills.

Thursday passed in a blur but on Friday we went to a fairly local HE Not Back To School picnic at Wolseley Bridge Nature Reserve

http://www.staffs-wildlife.org.uk/wolseley-centre

Weather was lovely and we met up with other new and established Home Edders

Bye for now!