Fun blocks

Magnet fun

Chocolate covered banana

Learning about double boiling and using steam to heat.
Our chocolate was also not a good quality and was
very thick so we added some cream and she saw
how it got much softer so that it could pour.

Ruth was so excited when her correspondence school bag arrived today. It did not take her long to ask me if we could make something from the book. Thankfully we had ingredients to get chocolate covered bananas done this afternoon.

She did a good job cutting the banana up.

Time to decorate. The chocolate was not ideal, but we managed.

Very happy with her creation.

Meeting her teacher

Ruth had a great time at the Correspondence School get-together today. It was lovely to meet her new teacher and to do so many fun things.

Painting is always fun (and messy).

The girls helped make the play dough when we arrived
and had so much fun through the day with it.

Closing the circuit and getting the bulb to light up.



There were so many dress up clothes. Always so much fun.





Ruth used the lovely bells (on the shelf behind
them) to play "Mary had a little lamb" for
her teacher.



Playing a quiet game after all the tiring
games with the parachute.



Lots of fun in the sandpit. They made lovely castles.

Marble chaser

Ruth has really enjoyed the Marble chaser that her correspondence school teacher sent her.

Fun with her sisters.





It was fun to make different starting places.

Bubble paper

One of the activities in the "decorating paper" kit that we received from the Correspondence School was to use bubbles to decorate.

Rachel enjoyed joining in and they had a great time.

The results were really good too. Click here for full instructions on how to do it.

Look at me I'm moving Again

Some more favorites from "Look at me I'm moving" vol 3. This one is with rhythm sticks. Great to get the rhythm as well as solidifying right and left. I love the way Hannah got the rhythm as soon as she got to them too.
And this is a mirror song. They each take turns to be the person or the mirror. Loads of fun with this one.

Look at me I'm moving

Ruth got this DVD in her last Correspondence School posting and has so enjoyed it. "Look at me I'm moving - volume 3."

This is quite a tricky one but focus on crossing the mid-line.

Wiggle and a waggle your body. :-)

Ballet Book and cd

Ruth's correspondence teacher sent her a Ballet book and cd with her last posting as I had told her about Ruth starting Ballet lessons. Ruth loves showing Hannah the book as the cd plays - telling Hannah when it is time to turn the page and pointing at the different pictures. At the end of the cd there is some music for them to dance to. One of the pieces is one that Rachel danced to at her first concert. They girls all love being ballerinas and dancing around.

Posting arrived

Ruth was very excited about her next Correspondence School posting that arrived today.

With Ruth's attention to detail in her puzzle building the teacher thought to send this "I spy" book with each page just full of objects. There is also a riddle on each page with different things for you to find. Ruth enjoys the book a lot but I loved how she first used it. This page looked like a lovely place for her cars to drive. So she fetched the box of cars and had such a fun time.

Collage started

Yesterday we watched the DVD the Correspondence school had sent on "Collage". Ruth was very excited to go around the house collecting "treasures".

Then she chose an egg carton to paint.

Today I made up some of the "paste" they had sent with and Ruth had a wonderful time sticking all different things onto her creation.

They also sent a pair of scissors and Ruth has learnt really quickly how to use them. They are nice and sharp (although rounded on the end) as apparently children cut themselves more on blunt scissors because they have to put so much more effort into the cutting.

And once the box was done Ruth was not. So she continued to do some cutting and pasting.
She has had so much fun and I can see that making Collages is going to be a very regular event now.

Dress up girl

Ruth really loves the dress up girl she got with her school work yesterday. I loved how she sat and showed Hannah how to use it this evening.

Autumn school work arrived

Ruth was so excited about her new lot of school work arriving in the post today. The theme is autumn to go along with the crafts we have been doing. By the end of the day she was already singing along with the new cd of songs she received.

She also did not want to waste any time in getting her poster made. So we got out the rest of the leaves we had pressed and then went walking around the garden looking for seed pods. The only ones we could find were Acorn. It amazed me to see how many Oak trees are around our home (and all different sizes). No wonder the place is called "The Oaks".

Finished product. It's lovely Ruth. Well done.

What animals Eat - Poster

Ruth really enjoyed getting pictures of food out of the newspaper advertising yesterday. So today we started sticking them on.

She has not used glue before - so with this one she just put the glue on and I placed them. It's amazing that I can ask her "So what are you?" and she immediately says "omnivore". She has learnt so much.

We had so many pictures that we separated the meat and veg / fruit from the others and then she stuck all the extra pictures onto the back of the poster. She did this all on her own.

And she did such a good job. Well done Ruth.

I laminated the poster for her once she was done so that we don't have to worry about any of the pictures falling off. So even if they only got a little bit of glue in the middle it was enough.

What animals eat - Part 2

What do dogs eat? Do puppies eat the same as grown dogs?

Ruth has seen lambs drinking off their mother and remembers Rachel giving milk to the lamb she looked after. So once she thought about that she could guess that puppies would drink milk too. She enjoyed colouring the puppies in different colours.
Lovely pictures of the mice and birds that our cats catch and eat.

I was going to find clip art to print and let Ruth colour in but was having endless trouble with Word and so decided to rather look for photos. I am glad I did as we had lovely ones and it helped Ruth remember.
I was surprised to see how many photos we actually had from our holiday. Ruth had fun sorting them into groups. I had to look up the Takahe on-line to see what it ate but Ruth and I also had fun looking at all the other photos on the on-line encyclopedia. We also read about mussels and I guessed they were omnivores as plankton is made from microscopic plants and animals - but was not sure if they were classified in these groups. But it was great to see such a big mussel - just slightly open for us to see the creature inside.

The extra two pages we filled with family photos. Ruth did a great job of sorting them into their groups.