The randomness of the past 3 days...

Reading on with Heidi.

There's still been a big Party theme going on lately. Nathan designed a game "pin the beak on the duck" for them to play.

Sandpit play - pouring water through a buried hose to see if it would fill up the other side and sweep around underneath to a pool on the other side (and yes that is an empty beer bottle Nathna is using that Simon left down in the garden from watching them on the tramp after work one night).

Monday afternoon Danielle and I dropped Nathan off to Keas. They were meant to fly their kites they'd made the week before, but the weather didn't cooperate. He was super proud of the uniform that he was given. He gets invested next week and can then start to earn badges to put on his hat.

Deciding to make a herbal wreath using some lavender branches that I had cut off the bush that broke with some awful weather a week back. They had been drying hanging in the front porch (until the howlign gales broke the string holding them up) and I wasn't too sure what to do with them. Nathan helped me cut off all the flowers and put them in a bowl. Then I thought they might make a good base for a wreath.

The next day (after it had stopped raining) we gathered some herbs and greenery from the garden to thread into them - fennel, ivy, thyme, oregano, rose geranium, lavender, feverfew, violets, calendula, thyme and lemon balm (as well as some pink flower growing in my garden).

(my one)

(Nathan's one)

 Danielle chose to just gather flowers in her apron but not thread her wreath up.

We've had out our Family Math book and I found some activities to do with Time since it seems to be a big one for Nathan at the moment.

First up I set up our bedroom clock under the oven analogue clock.

They then both drew clocks (Danielle was focusing on identifying the numbers on the clock she was copying from and writing them out) and drew on the times that things often happen around here. Nathan realised that his get up time and bedtime were the same (they're not in reality, but he chose those times since they sometimes happen that way). He then worked through some problems using our toy clock where I asked if it was 6 o'clock and then 2 hrs passed what would the time be etc.

They then did various things to see how long things took to do such as how many times could they write their name in 1 minute.

Danielle's taken to quizzing me on what numbers add up to as well lol. Gotta keep me on my toes!

There was a thunder storm this morning which had us feeling the vibrations of. So off outside to sit on the porch under cover from the downpour and watch for lightning. Nathan retrieved a book we have on weather and we read up about thunder and lightning while we waited for it to pass over.

After lunch we headed off to Danielle's gym class.

Then to the library for an hour before heading back for Nathan's gym class. During Danielle's class, Nathan was asking the gym teacher how some of the higher equipment was used, so she said when we came back for the after school class she'd get her 8yr old to show him what he does on the rings.

This coming Sunday they will both take part in a Christmas display where each of the classes do a demonstration.