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.

1st violin lesson

I phoned the school music teacher this morning as I had heard that she played violin. I was very pleased to hear that she gives violin lessons. She asked if we could come and see her today so we headed down before Ballet and Ruth got her first lesson. I also learnt a lot about caring for the violin and bow. Ruth was a little shy but will get over that quickly I am sure. She is very keen to practice every day. I am impressed with the sounds that she is already getting after just one lesson. Unless you have tried to play a violin and know the screeching noise that can be produced - you may not appreciate how good this is for the first day.

Psalm 23

Ruth has been so motivated to do her memory verses for Sunday School. She already knew Genesis 1:1 but doing the whole of Psalm 23 has been a challenge. But she has faithfully worked on it and has done so amazingly well. She is only 4. :-)

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.

Giant Paper Poppy

Ruth did a really good job of cutting out.

She enjoyed helping me use the glue gun.

We are all very happy with the end result.
For instructions on how to make them go here.

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.