Can't believe it's been 5 days since I last posted!

Last Saturday the kids wanted a picnic out on the front lawn, so they both set out a mat and plates etc.

Sunday and Monday were spent hanging out with dad, visiting friends, dinner at nannie and grampies, bike riding and watching more of Wizard of Oz before it was due back at the shop. Nathan's been continuing to add to his copy-written story from the Thomas book and Danielle's been writing me more love letters. Both of them can play Whosit on their own now and did really well.

Yesterday afternoon Nathan went to play at a friend's house and Danielle and I went down to the mall for a few hours for a coffee (and her a fluffy) and shared a slice of cheesecake.

Been lots of reading of library books...

Today we looked at one of the books on Mixtures and Compounds.

First up we looked at what a mixture is opposed to a solution, so mixed salt with water and it became a solution whereas sand and water are just a mixture as they don't combine.

We then chose an experiment to show how felt pen colours are a mixture of different coloured chemicals that are able to be separated. The red didn't separate (which I'm guessing is because it's a primary colour), whereas the black and green looked great as time went on.



We then attempted separating via evaporation. Apparently lemon juice, which is a solution of citric acid and water should evaporate and leave the crystals behind. We just ended up with a sticky syrup (that the kids enjoyed torturing themselves by licking even though it was about 10 times as sour as usual!).

Watching a spider devour a live fly was of interest this afternoon as well - ewwww....

Mountains have continued to be interesting, and today Nathan took it to the sandpit (again!)...two mountains with a valley between them with a river and trees only growing partway up the mountain that was snow covered.

Danielle building her own mountain.

On the trampoline with additional items "surfing".


More egg hunts to find where the chickens are laying their latest eggs and investigating chicken footprints in the sandpit (Nathan drew a map to help find them) and then Danielle drew herself a map and I could here her navigating herself around the house, front yard and back yard to locate the eggs too lol.

Races around the house using the timer from one of the boardgames.

Reading: A Secret Seven book by Enid Blyton