Trapped by the weather

Yick, what a stormy blustery day and we even postponed one group of visitors who were coming from afar.

We read heaps today - various picture books and then I read The Ugly Duckling from our Hans Christian Andersen book. We have a series of videos that go with the original story, so was interesting for Nathan in particular to note the small differences to the story lines.

The kids chopped up fresh fruit to eat with yoghurt for their morning tea.

Nathan found a stack of post-it notes in the stationery drawer and proceeded to stick labels on household items. He spelt out several himself and others he asked for help in spelling.

Danielle has been really into the puzzles lately and has been working on a tricky ABC wooden one with animals that interlink and a large floor farm puzzle. She's also still interested in writing and copied out severals letters that she had me write out. Later on she then wrote on the post-it notes the same way Nathan was by saying "cupboard", "wall", "stove" etc only hers were squiggles as she was going through the process of telling me what she was doing.

I found some beautiful ABC cards (large ones that I had on Nathan's wall as a frieze when he was a baby/toddler) that the kids spent time lining up and talking about the pictures. Nathan decided he wanted to write out the words from the cards. His writing is just looking so smooth and regular lately compared to a few months ago when he was still putting the sticks and tails etc on separately in odd places.

Danielle spent a while transporting her dollshouse figurines and furniture out to the dining room and set them all up on a bar stool in there.

The two of them then spent a little time on the Starfall.com website and then built huts from couch cushions.

Nathan wanted to help me make dinner tonight which was a bit of a made up meal - a fish laksa. So he chopped, measured, poured and stirred it all for a while.