Yesterday we had some of our homeschooling group over and had a bit of a solar-cook up. Nathan had decided he wanted to run a "fire drill". So in the morning he had me list out the people who were coming so he could write down their names on his roll for checking off. Not long before everyone left, he had us all gather out by the letterbox for our drill.

Today was fairly relaxed although we needed to go down to Playcentre to do a bit of end of year clean up and the kids had a final play with some of their friends before the holidays. We popped by some other friends on the way home and then spent the afternoon just chilling out.

They had out the magnetix, hung out in the garden and on the trampoline, played a maze computer game that came with a maze book that I'd got Nathan since he's right into them at the moment.

Nathan brought inside the tunnel that they'd made the other day and wanted to paint it up.

Then we got out one of our library books and found a craft that they wanted to do. Making a wand for Danielle and a hiking stick for Nathan. The foraged around the garden for suitable sticks and then pasted and tied things on them.


This evening Nathan helped me prepare the veges for dinner and while chopping them up was telling me about a couple of books he wanted to write. Mr Invisible and Mr Magic. So once dinner was cooking we sat down and stapled together some paper to make the books and then he started his books.

After dinner, they went out for a walk and riding bikes/scooters with their dad. When they returned Nathan brought out the Dick and Jane book and sped through a bunch of pages recalling some words that he stumbled over last time and there were a few that he stumbled on again.