Making Christmas crackers

I had them draw a picture that I then traced onto tea towels using a laundry pen as gifts.

Making and writing Christmas cards for grandparents and their friends.

This afternoon I was having a cup of tea and reading a bit of my book while Danielle played Starfall on the computer and Nathan was in his room drawing. Nathan came in to show me his "newspaper" he was making. I'd been telling him how when I was younger I made a newspaper with puzzles, articles and drawings. This was his version. He started off by drawing pictures showing how Earth revolves around the Sun (seems to be exploring this topic every now and again) and then asked for other ideas to fill in the page. I suggested he consult the calendar to find out how many days till Christmas and then I told him that Summer Solstice was just before that, so he added that too. He had a game of noughts and crosses and then wrote out some maths problems for the reader to solve.

Danielle was then inspired to make a house under the dining table, so they moved on and did that for quite a while.

We've had our last gym class for the year until after the summer holidays and Danielle got to try out Nathan's class for 5-7yr olds and had fun, so she'll be joining that one in February and the only difference being that I won't be on the floor with her and she'll need to follow the teachers instructions. Will be interesting to see how she gets on with it.

Yesterday Nathan started to fly a paper plane at me and wanted me to read the message inside it. I then sent it back with a message for him - and back and fowards it went!

An impromptu experiment...

The washing machine was going a few days back and the kids were outside in the front garden and heard the water pouring out into the drain. So around to the side of the house they went to watch it coming out (and noting the 4-5 different pipes feeding into the drain). Nathan went running inside the house and then out again and said he'd put a small leaf in the tub to see if it would come out (I suspect he missed it). I then had them wait where they were and wait for the surprise. I rushed in and tipped a bit of blue food colour into the tub (ours fills up with water and spirals down the plug hole) as it was continuing to drain the water. As I was coming back out I heard them all excited at seeing the blue foamy water coming out the other end.

And then finishing the day with a pillow fight.