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Oct 24

Autumn…

by sarah

… Sea­son of mists and mel­low fruitfulness…

Or in this house lots of revi­sion, OU exams, and sev­eral vis­its from Granddads.

For the first time in two and a half months I don’t have some­thing major hang­ing over me :-)  Work and life have plod­ded on amid the revi­sion and vis­its but noth­ing very excit­ing and I’ve not been up to blogging.

Today has been a day of tieing up lose ends, tidy­ing up and gen­er­ally try­ing to get life back under control.

Heat­ing has gone on over the week­end, win­ter is on the way, so time I showed you our autumn displays.

My favourite pieces this year are this gor­geous lit­tle acorn that Jack made com­pletely on his own (apart from the cut­ting out of the pieces) from a kit by Paper and String

And these col­lages they did today. We cut green grass and glued it to blue card. Cut out a tree from brown card and stuck it on.  Cut the cen­tre from a sheet of orange card and stuck it on and then dec­o­rated with some lovely foam stick­ers we got from Baker Ross.

 

 

 

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Oct 2

What happened to Autumn?

by sarah

I love Autumn; crisp fresh air, slight nip in the air, swap­ping my san­dals for Uggs, the won­der­ful colours, no hayfever, being able to sleep…

I do not  like sti­fling heat and hayfever in October!

But, even I will admit play­ing in the sea at 5pm on the sec­ond day of Octo­ber is an unex­pected treat

At the sea with Grandpa Bob

Dip­ping in a toe…

…and a heel…

…this is quite fun…

…SPLASH!

And to end, a funny hairdo!

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Sep 26

Mushroom prints

by sarah

Here’s an idea I found on Home­made Mama’s that we had to try.

Remove the stalks and lay your mush­rooms an your paper or card, gill down

Cover (we used a casse­role dish), leave overnight and voila … prints

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Sep 25

Our week

by sarah

I haven’t been able to shake my cold and have strug­gled this week. Despite that we’ve done okay.
Besides usual lessons…
Jack has been look­ing at life processes (here illus­trated with a meerkat) and we’ve spent some time research­ing puberty [shudder].

Achilles and Pussy had a ride in the wash­ing machine.

A box of books arrived and when I came down from get­ting dressed it had been opened and they were curled up with Jack read­ing the bible to Sam.

We found our bar­gain of the year 16 books in the series they have just started read­ing for £1.99!

Sam made an autumn tree.

The change of the sea­son has prompted me to get out my nee­dle.  A sock hedgehog!

And hav­ing been to the open evening on Thurs, Jack has decided to try out for the Gang Show this year.

 

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Oct 21

And Turnips

by sarah

Still in catch up mode.

Last week we were still bat­tling colds, I was try­ing to revise and we had the test of endurance that is film edu­ca­tion week. Although hav­ing learned my les­son from pre­vi­ous years we only booked in to 2 films.
With every­thing going on I took my foot off the ped­dle and gave the boys a lot more free time than I have lately and they did me proud.
They spent a LOT of time play­ing lego.
Jack also spent a lot of time prac­tis­ing the piano.
Our book of the week con­tin­ued the seasonal/harvest theme.

Mon­day, we had a home ed meet where we made a bon­fire col­lage, park with friends and then Sam had gymnastics.
Tues­day we walked down to the vil­lage for some shop­ping. Then Jack decided he wanted to do some paint­ing so we dug out some acrylic paints and some can­vases which have been under the spare bed for ages.

We spent a lot of time watch­ing and lis­ten­ing to songs from CBBC’s Hor­ri­ble His­to­ries on youtube. Here is Sam doing the Pachacuti.

Jack made ‘word pic­tures’ based on Autumny and fire­work linked words for a dis­play in the library.
Thurs­day we went into Portsmouth bright and early to watch ‘Fan­tas­tic Mr Fox’ at the cinema.
Sam who didn’t want to go loved it — Jack and I thought it was appalling!
Here’s Jack on the ferry.
Lunch time and we were back in Lee to help another mum from the home ed group put up the library dis­play. It looks fab.
Didn’t have time to go home before drama so lunch at one of the cafes in the vil­lage and an ice cream on the bench wait­ing for the bus.
We get to the school where Jack has drama 30 mins early due to the bus times so Sam drew a map in the mud and explained his war strat­egy (never did find out who we were fight­ing).
Fri­day, we dec­o­rated foam trees.
Com­pared sizes and made a poster.
Jack did a work­sheet on fol­low­ing instruc­tions and wrote a story using the print­a­bles from here

Then we had a tidy up before Jack put on his new Cubs uni­form and we went to the scout hut to see a vis­it­ing plan­e­tar­ium show.


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Oct 1

Slowing down

by sarah

The coughs and colds the boys have been bat­tling for the last week have been slow­ing them down the last few days, par­tic­u­larly Jack. So we’ve been spend­ing some time at home catch­ing up with work and resting.

On Weds, I heard that a trip I’d organ­ised for Fri­day was can­celled! So while I was fuss­ing around try­ing to con­tact peo­ple, Sam indulged in a bit of Boo­gie Bee­bies. Here he is doing the ‘funky chicken’.
Then we made a recipe from our book of the week, Eddie’s Kitchen.
Show­ing off our yummy, scrummy Car­rot and Orange driz­zle cake.
Then Pete came home to cud­dle up on the set­tee and read and watch tv with them while I went out to Rainbows.
Thurs­day we cracked on with work, boys did their maths and eng­lish and both started work on a ‘his­tory pocket’.
On Eddie’s Kitchen we talked about dif­fer­ent fam­i­lies. Here is Sam’s pic­ture of Eddie and Lily. Appaently hav­ing a blue face means you’re happy.

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