My computer time this morning was cut short with Nathan bringing over one of his workbooks to do some work in.

We then spent some time out on the porch reading some more of our library books. One of them was on looking after small animals and had a section on observing earthworms which the kids were keen to try out. So off they ran to try and find some worms (after taking down a wet, opaque (to protect the worms from the UV rays) plastic cup to bring some back for observing). Alas, they were sad because they only found an old potato and I was getting busy on preparing lunch.

Huts, houses and rocket ships have been built out of couch cushions.

Reader Rabbit CD Rom has been played by Nathan and Danielle went onto the Starfall site but quickly got inspired to build a hut under the dining table so went off to do that instead.

Nathan found a dead beetle on his bedroom floor and found his bug catcher to observe it through the microscope. He then got out his Life-Size Guide to Insects and together we worked through the pages to find the one we were after. Ah, it was the Shield bug and being winter it even matched the colour in the book. The photo's in the book are perfect - the bug in the book really was life-size lol. As he was looking at it through the microscope he was talking about the different parts and colours and went off to draw one.

After lunch I recalled that there were some seals making their way down the coast that had been spotted at our local beach, so we went for a wander up there to see if there were any hanging around still. But no, they must have moved on. The day was gorgeous and really quite warm (even I was in a tank top and that rarely happens lol) and the kids were keen to try the water since it's been several months since it was warm enough to do so.









Upon returning home and having had a shower, we went out to find some worms to look at. We then tranferred them into a glass jar to get a good look. We shone a torch underneath them and you could see their food and dirt moving around inside them. Pretty cool. They were then put back outside.